Linksys by Cisco Wireless-N Broadband Router with 4-Port Switch MIMO

Linksys Wireless-N Broadband Router

Wireless-N Broadband Router with 4-Port Switch MIMO Review, by Becky Waring August 25, 2006

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• Latest User Reviews 5 reviews
• Reviewed by: RonHauser

  Duration of ownership: 5 Months

  Strengths: The storage link is good.

  Weaknesses: The ethernet does not work well. The computers on the ethernet cannot see each other on the network. All work fine on the web.

  Overall: I upgraded from the WRT54GS for the wired gigabit transfer rate. That was a BIG mistake, because now there is no transfer. Linksys' customer service was of no help, but they did spend over an hour on the phone with me before giving up. I wish I had not spent my money on this piece of junk.

• Reviewed by: BobL

  Duration of ownership: 2 Months

  Overall: I purchased all N draft equipment stictly based on the advertisements that the gear offered 4 x more range. In fact it doesn't have the range strength of the G equipment I replaced. A total waste of money. I asked for a solution and received an horrendous 300 step solution that doesn't work.. plus a firmware (bin) update that XP won't recognize and open.

• Reviewed by: krbaney

  Duration of ownership: 6 Months

  Strengths: Still thinking.

  Weaknesses: Poor performance, poor support, poor resolution

  Overall: We purchased the linksys router and wireless adapter on the advise of a salesman at a local electronics store. I've been having reception problems from day one. When it works, blazing fast, but thats only 50% of the time. I've been trying to resolve my problems with linksys, but they are no help. I can only reset my settings so many times. Would definately not buy again. We're sad we switched from Belkin but don't want to loose our $300 investment. BTW,,,still trying to get it running.

• Reviewed by: snowman

  Duration of ownership: 4 Months

  Strengths: Quick easy setup. Great range.

  Weaknesses: None so far

  Overall: I'm not sure why the people that gave this router a negative review had problems, but I'm thrilled with it's performance. My daughter's laptop is almost 100 feet from the router...upstairs.....on the other side of a double flue chimney/fireplace and she has a terrific connection. Not to mention that's with an internal 802.11g card in her system. So far it's the best of the three routers that I've owned.

• Reviewed by: Acciptor

  Duration of ownership: 2 Months

  Strengths: Overall, great router, range is excellent, never drops connection, took 10 min. to setup.

  Weaknesses: The case design needs to be improved, would like something more aethstetically pleasing.

  Overall: I have had no problems with this router at all and would recommend it to anyone as the best consumer level router available at this time.

• Reviewed by: fblack64

  Strengths: Good signal strength throughout split level house - 3 desktops - 3 pcs - 2 pdas, 1 wireless printer and a 1TB worldbook all working well

  Weaknesses: so far none - working well out of box (and I brought it as a open box item at a computer store for under $40 and it still had all the stickers in place ;) )

  Overall: Using this item in conjunction with my vonage phone service which is routed thru a rt31p2 router. I hand out ips thru the rt31p2 router and also use mac address validation to allow access to my network. I also have ssid broadcast disabled with no wpa or wep authenication to slow down the network. Voice is good and data is good also - I still have my old wrt54g sitting on the floor powered off in case of emergency. This is a good item. Oh - one more thing - 2 pcs are running xp and the rest are linux - the worldbook has been tweaked and runs a linux fielshare as well and speed is good overall.

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  Strengths: None, terrible unit.

  Weaknesses: Multiple.

  Overall: This unit should not be on the market. Connection speed with the matching Wireless N network card ranged from 5mg - 60mb, all over the map. Terrible unit. I replaced it with a Dlink DIR-628. What a difference!!! All problems disappeared now I have a solid 270mb link.Do not buy this unit. I returned mine.

• Reviewed by:

  Strengths: Descent speed & easy to set up

  Weaknesses: none so far

  Overall: This little unit is so easy to set up and the speed is great compare to 54 mbps. The 256 bit encription is great. All my devices and PC's at home connect to this wireless router with no problems. For the modest price I paid this router is great.

• Reviewed by:

  Strengths: Decent speed across the wireless network. Wireless Security strenght is great

  Weaknesses: You have to make a physical in order to configure the router.

  Overall: Easy to setup router. Wireless security is great. Overall, this router works great. It is worth the money. So far any 802.11n that you purchase from this brand it's great. I installed another network router for gaming for a friend using a gaming router from this brand and it working great so far.

• Reviewed by: morphogenesis

  Strengths: Visually interesting

  Weaknesses: Unreliable. Performance deteriorates within months. Riddled with problems from dropping wireless connections to e-mail-related issues.

  Overall: This product represents another triumph in Linksys's quest to continue providing $160 paperweights. The third Linksys router to die in our office - and the last - this router made it less than five months before it began dropping connections on a regular basis, and with increasing frequency. Even the wired connections running through the router are now unreliable, requiring more-than-daily power cycling. The router has been more or less panned by reviewers at the PC Magazine and CNet sites. If this is how Linksys is going to build routers, perhaps Cisco should fold it up and focus on its own router line.