Cisco-Linksys WRT160N-RM Refurbished Wireless-N Router
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Customer Review: TOTAL GARBAGE: Brand new, not a refurb, and not from Amazon...
Summary: 1 Stars
I'm writing this simple review just to warn people from buying total junk like this router. I bought mine new a little over a year ago, and it's been hell using it since. I finally got so fed up with it today, I smashed it! SAVE YOUR MONEY! I've never had so many problems with a wireless router/network.
I've used Linksys routers in the past and had great results... like when wireless G signal was the new, new thing. But I've had it with this product and it'll be a hard sell to reconvert me back to Linksys and trust their products ever again. I tried everything I could, but nothing but nightmares. I'm just glad it's over. I think I may go and stomp all over the piece of junk to celebrate.
If I absolutely have to, I will resort to an older Linksys wireless G router like one reviewer mentioned, but I'm going to do my best to look for ANY other company first.
In short:
-Everyday problems of gaining and maintaining a signal with Windows Vista and Windows 7 based PCs, and a Mac
-Just about every time another device picked up the signal to the network, everything would go down
-Hardwired in did nothing to help
This kind of product and these kinds of results really disgust me, especially when I can't receive a refund! Talk about false-advertising....
Good Luck with the JUNK produced by a company that could only be run by SCUM to allow this kind of thing to hit the market.
Customer Review: Fast, and also reliable if you install DD-WRT
Summary: 5 Stars
My Linksys WRT54G router was slowly losing range and stability due to age. I could barely get a stable connection in my bedroom even though I only live in a condo. So I started looking for a replacement. Despite some inconsistent review for this, I decided to buy it and give it a try. (one thing with some bad reviews are that they come from people who don't know what they are doing while I have mucho background in IT and software.)
I have now had it for 2 weeks. Stubborn and lazy as I am, I was using the Linksys firmware (updated with the latest) for the first few days. If that works, then I don't have to deal with flashing with DD-WRT firmware. It was working but I did have to restart couple times.
Slightly annoyed, I flashed the router with the DD-WRT firmware (following exact instructions, especially the "hard reset" step as that seems to be the key). I have been enjoying stable, speedy, non-dropping connection since without restarting the router. Not that it matters with the cap in my cable connection speed, it's nice to see 100+ Mbps speed for a change.
Note: WPA-PSK is the way to go for security (WEP will cap your connection speed at 54Mbps). WPA-PSK2 is more secure (but less throughput) but it seems many older wireless interface (their drivers) do not have WPA-PSK2 as an option.
Update 1/7/10: Ran into some instability. Changing ACK Timing to 0 seem to be the key to fix it.
Customer Review: Basic Wireless N at a budget price!
Summary: 4 Stars
I purchased this item on 01/07/2010 to replace my WRT54GL (with DD-WRT on it) Linksys by Cisco WRT54GL Wireless-G Broadband Router (Compatible with Linux) as I have 30mbps Down/2mbps Up internet service and the WRT54GL chipset could not achieve throughput over 19mbps. Having only 2/3 of the bandwidth I pay for was not an option so I ended up turning off DHCP on the WRT54GL using it just as a wireless access point and using a pfSense box as my router as it more than handles the 30mbps throughput.
To make a long story short I bought this to use as an access point for Wireless N speeds and it works great for that purpose.
I like the sleek design but miss having external detachable antennas. It covers a smaller area than my WRT54GL Linksys by Cisco WRT54GL Wireless-G Broadband Router (Compatible with Linux) but that is expected since it has internal antennas.
As far as WAN throughput goes I haven't tested it because I use my pfSense box to handle that.
For the price it's worth it. I'm buying a few to hopefully flash them with DD-WRT (depending on the version I get, luck of the draw) when I get time to use as VPN end-points.
So if you are thinking about it just buy it and use it.
Customer Review: Total garbage
Summary: 1 Stars
This router runs great if you're connected with an Ethernet cable and don't even try to do anything else. But it's supposed to be a wireless router, and I couldn't get a single thing to connect to it. Not a laptop, not a PS3, and - after upgrading the firmware - not even my Ethernet connection. Every piece of technology I own - from my TV to my laptop, from my Playstation to my printer, from my GPS to my Iomega hard drive - is plug and play. Why, then, do I need a PhD in networking to be able to set this up? Why should I have to download firmware? Why should I have to figure out that a router's IP address is 168.something-or-other? What the hell do I care about that? I don't care what MHz band my cell phone uses. It just works. This is the 21st century - I shouldn't have to care. I don't want to build a transistor radio, I just want to stream Netflix.
It certainly doesn't help that this thing doesn't come with a paper manual of any kind, and the start-up software apparently doesn't work unless the device is directly wired to the router first. Yeah, like I'm going to unhook my PS3 in the living room and carry it into my office so the router can have a chat with it. Absolutely asinine. I'm sending it back for a refund and digging my crappy old NETGEAR RangeMax out of the closet. It sucks, but at least it works.
Customer Review: Set-up problems
Summary: 2 Stars
When I installed it using the CD, everything seemed to go well, and it was actually working for wired connection to multiple computers, but then the installation box on the screen didn't go away, and it seemed to want to do more. It indicated that it was performing some sort of additional operation, then the hourglass just stayed there for 5 to 10 minutes, then I got the dreaded gray box with the red X that said it had encountered a problem. I couldn't make it go away. It took the computer hostage, and I finally had to remove the installation CD and re-boot the computer.
I made the mistake of installing the optional Home Network Defender. In spite of the installation problem, the router is now working OK with multiple wired computers, (haven't yet tried wireless) but the Home Network Defender blocks access to some web sites. I can't find any way to configure Home Network Defender, or bypass it, or even to uninstall it. It seems to be on a 30-day free trial, but they never told me what will happen after 30 days. I assume they will want more money. Meanwhile the only way I can get access to some web sites is to connect the computer directly to the cable modem and bypass the router. But then that disables internet access for the other computers.
Maybe after the 30 days is up it might work well. Meanwhile I'm stuck with this Home Network Defender.