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Linksys WRT600N 4-Port Dual-Band Wireless-N Gigabit Router

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• Reviewed by: newyorkerguy

  Updated: 06-28-08

  Overall Rating: 1 Star Review

  Duration of ownership:2 Days

  Strengths: strong performance on 5ghz n band; useful network map application

  Weaknesses: After not using linksys products for several years due to declining quality and tech support, I decided to try them again. I hoped that their acquisition by cisco would raise the standard. I found that nothing changed. This top of the line router could not establish a connection with either of 2 laptops wirelessly on the 2.4ghz band (this was not a problem with the belkin router I was replacing). I spent hours with linksys tech support on the phone. The tech offered random recommendations, until he admitted he did not know the product in detail.

  Overall Evaluation: I will never buy a linksys product again.

• Reviewed by: dhboone

  Updated: 04-23-09

  Overall Rating: 4 Star Review

  Duration of ownership:2 Weeks

  Strengths: Fast and easy to install.

  Weaknesses: Variable signal strength when connecting using my WEC600N wireless adapter in my notebook.

  Overall Evaluation: Overall this is a great wireless-N router and the speed is super fast. I bought this to upgrade from my old Linksys WRT54GS broadband router. The dual-band wireless router allows me to use my notebook at more than twice the speed of my old wireless connection and it works perfectly when streaming video from the Internet on my wireless network. The only weakness is that the signal strength is sometimes less (good) than my old router provided (consistently excellent), but this is not often and it still works great! I'd recommend this router to anyone. If you want faster wireless connections, get this router.

• Reviewed by: rbrinklow

  Updated: 04-01-09

  Overall Rating: 1 Star Review

  Duration of ownership:8 Months

  Strengths: None

  Weaknesses: You name it! Most notably, USB network storage never worked properly, when it worked at all.

  Overall Evaluation: I bought this unit last May, and have regretted it ever since. Network access was sporadic, and access across channels would not work at all, meaning computers connected by hard wire would not see the computers connected via either wireless channel, and computers connected via wireless would not see computers connected by hardwire or on the other wireless channel.The USB network storage was clumsy to set up, and would not work all the time. When it did, it was excruciatingly slow, and quite often a file transfer would fail because the NAS would suddenly disappear from the network.After months of aggravation, I flashed the unit with DD-WRT. I played around with it a bit, and wasn't particularly satisfied with it, and flashed it back with the original firmware. After a successful reinstall of the firmware, the unit's hard wire ports wouldn't work at all. Attempts to reinstall the firmware would fail about halfway through.I contacted Linksys, and after about 2 hours on line with them, they issued an RMA. They shipped a new unit, and it lasted for three months before dying completely. Lost two more hours of my life in another on line session with customer support, and received another RMA. This time they sent me the WRT610N. The jury is still out on this one, but at least the USB network storage on this unit works better.Linksys customer service is yet another issue. On the first RMA, I did a cross-ship, providing them with a credit card number. A month after shipping the defective unit back to them, my credit card was billed $191, and it took several online sessions, phone calls, and e-mails to finally get it reversed.Needless to say, I will never buy another Linksys product. I have been using their equipment for years, but ever since the company was acquired by Cisco, their product quality and service has gone straight to hell.

• Reviewed by: mcmeen

  Updated: 08-29-08

  Overall Rating: 5 Star Review

  Duration of ownership:4 Weeks

  Strengths: Long Range and strong signal

  Weaknesses: Expensive

  Overall Evaluation: This unit replaced our Linksys WRG54T in use for two years. The older unit needed constant rebooting from its inability to handle conflicts with other WiFi circuits from our neighbors and its range seemed to vary with the weather. Since going with our new Dual-band WRT600N, all of these problems have vanished. Even fussy guests who were complaining last year about the signal seemed totally satisfied this year. Thanks Cisco and PC Mag for recommending it.

• Reviewed by: scottegos2

  Updated: 08-24-08

  Overall Rating: 2 Star Review

  Duration of ownership:2 Weeks

  Strengths: nice that it has dual bandgood range

  Weaknesses: hangs up

  Overall Evaluation: I had this for a little while, but it get dropping my connections. it also locked up hard a couple of times. This was with the latest firmware at the time (in 6/2008) so YMMV. Nevertheless, I'm back to my trendnet tew-633gr, which is quite solid, even if it doesn't have dual band.

• Reviewed by: Schnabe

  Updated: 07-20-08

  Overall Rating: 5 Star Review

  Duration of ownership:3 Months

  Strengths: 2.4GHz/5GHz Dual Band, Range, Stability, Built-in Gigabit Switch.

  Weaknesses: Wireless clients dont always connect at highest speed, a bit pricy.

  Overall Evaluation: I have had this router for awhile, and overall I am pleased. It offers dual band capability, which as long as your wireless client (notebook, etc) has a dual-band card, throughput is alot higher than a plain 802.11G setup. I consistently get 45 - 50 MB/s transfer rate when testing using a throughput tester, which is alot higher than my old 802.11G router.My only (minor) grip is my notebook doesn't always connect at the highest speed, even though I am within line of sight to the router.

• Reviewed by: tsh332

  Updated: 07-09-08

  Overall Rating: 4 Star Review

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  Strengths: Increased speed and range. Slim appearance. Reasonably easy set up if familiar with wireless configurations.

  Weaknesses: Firmwear needed upgrade. Crashed during upgrade and had to contact linksys to rewrite flash memory. Price.

  Overall Evaluation: I upgraded to this router about eight months ago to increase my networks range and speed from my prior G band router. Required upgrading all the computers in the house to N band to get the maximum benefit, however, was worth it. ONE WARNING: The firmwear that came with my router was not the most current. You can download the newer firmwear from the linksys website but DO NOT attempt to load this wirelessly, use a network cable connection. Mine got corrupted during the upgrade turining the entire think into a paperweight. Finally resolved by reflashing the flash memory with a program provided by Linksys and saved the router.

• Reviewed by: ronross86

  Updated: 06-16-08

  Overall Rating: 4 Star Review

  Duration of ownership:30 Days

  Strengths: SIMULTANEOUS G and N connections - Reliable performance - Super Fast

  Weaknesses: Expensive - Can not set default router to different IP address

  Overall Evaluation: I stepped up to the WRT600N when my old G router stopped working. I paid the rather high prices for the WRT600N because I knew it was the only simultaneous dual band router on the market and with legacy G devices on my network, I had to keep them working.I do a lot of PC to PC data movement (streaming to media center, streaming to laptop, large file syncing from laptop to backup). It is so much faster than G. My wife loves it.I am very happy with the router thus far but it is a pretty pricey unit.One thing that bugs me is the fact when it gives out DHCP addresses, it can not set the default router address to something other than itself.

• Reviewed by: pchirach

  Updated: 06-15-08

  Overall Rating: 2 Star Review

  Duration of ownership:8 Days

  Strengths: Sleek design, lots of configurations, Dual-band radio frequency.

  Weaknesses: Configuration page is quite slow and every time you save, it takes 25 to 45 seconds to refresh. It will notify you after the changes are saved. You just need to wait.

  Overall Evaluation: I bought this to replace my old Linksys wireless-g due to the my new computer comes with wireless N client. It has the same web style configurations and easy to set up within a few mins. I have no problem so far to set it up. However, each web page configuration once saved, it will take a while to become available again. This is annoying and some of the page saved it will take up to 45 seconds. Secondly, I have Dell wireless N client, D-link wireless G client and Apple powerbook. Once it is setup, only my Apple powerbook is working. The rest are not reachable or have a weak signal. I am planning to return it as my old Linksys G router is working much stable than this one.

• Reviewed by: GarryinNJ

  Updated: 06-02-08

  Overall Rating: 5 Star Review

  Duration of ownership:2 Days

  Strengths: Ease of installation and set-up.Solid construction and design.Quality output.

  Weaknesses: Installation software a little buggy.

  Overall Evaluation: I was very impressed upon pulling this out of the box. For the consumer who is concerned with both performance as well as aesthetics, I can say this is definitely an attractive unit that is very strong on performance. The installation of this was an absolute breeze thanks to the EasyLink Advisor software that comes packaged with the router. It took 5 minutes, and walked me through the dismantling and connecting of my old router and my new router.The only issue I had was at the conclusion of installation, the software is supposed to bring you to a main menu where you can access other features (ie. a "network tree" of your equipment". However, it kept looping me back to the installation wizard. I made a quick phone call to Linksys (free tech support!), and they instructed me to downloaded an .exe file from their site that would work for me. Needless to say, it did. And I was happy.Overall, great product, great value too. It works on two different bands, as advertised, and I'm a big fan of the ability to plug removable storage into this and have it accessible on the rest of my network.Definitely go out and buy.

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