Roteador baixa torrents mesmo com o PC desligado

(fonte: http://www.extremetech.com/print_article2/0,1217,a=186048,00.asp)

Asus Router Downloads Torrents Without PC
By ExtremeTech Staff

Reports of the Asus WL-700gE have begun making the rounds of the gadget sites, so we thought we'd make sure you knew about it, too.

The Asus WL-700gE, quietly launched a month or two ago, is an 802.11b/g router with three USB 2.0 ports for external storage. The selling point of this router, however, is twofold: first, the router contains an internal 160-Gbyte hard drive, and second, it includes a small internal server that can process FTP or BitTorrent downloads without the need for a PC.

The router seems to be priced at $259.99 from a variety of online merchants, so that's taken care of.

However, this looks like a product that will need a bit of firmware tweaking by the manufacturer, as this review seems to indicate. The BitTorrent support is seaid to be buggy, with frequent, unrecoverable pauses if the application is monitored too long. It's also not totally clear whether data can be moved from the internal drive to an external storage unit.

"Overall I would say the router performs very well and is worth the money (I paid approximately $300)," the TorrentFreak review concluded. "However, the BitTorrent client is very buggy and limited. It works but it could and should be improved significantly. The router would not yet replace my regular torrent client, but it does the job at night."