Astrocat:

 

I purchase an ASA 5510 last week, yes it is end of life.. but guess what, it works, it has support, and no it is not a PS4.. And it blow this crap gear out of the water.

 

Your logic makes me despair in the future. If I own a device, like a Tesla car, I get to play with it. Do I want a root kit for my tesla, heck no, but would I want a gimped telsa ?

 

We as consumers need to expect better equipment and service. and YES this device is gimped !!!

 

I own the HG659b, I can telnet to the device, it requires credentials to login, what are those credentials. 

I had to literally laugh out loud here.

You do know that the routing performance of this "gimped" router as you state it is far better than the routing performance of your Cisco ASA router?

Personally, I'd take a router that uses far less power, and can route Gigabit than a router that draws 150w and yet only has a firewall throughput of 150-300Mbit depending on how many rules you have.

You're not getting an admin password for telnet unless if you break into it yourself like on that thread I mentioned - end of story, they're locked down for a reason. Also, it makes little sense that you're needing anything above a /24 subnet anyway.