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3 edits | reply to Johkal
Re: [Wireless] WRT610N vs E3000 I have a few reasons.
*The Netgear has a faster CPU 680mhz vs the E3000 480mhz
*http://www.smallnetbuilder.com benchmarks show the 3700 preforms much better out of the box "stock frimware" than the E3000. (I also have personal experience helping someone with 2 xboxes where the 3700 works much better)
*the 3700 is cheaper (Edit:I am wrong on that. It was cheaper a while back now it is only $10 cheaper than E3000 at bestbuy @ $169.99 and $2.78 more than E3000 at newegg @ $149.63.)
*I think the 3700 looks better (opinion  )
*It can stand upright
*3700 has 8 internal antennas, the E3000 has 6
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differences I could see arguing both sides to are:
*the 3700 has dual radios using two chips, the E3000 has dual radios using one chip.
*CPU/Switch: 3700 is Atheros/Realtek, E3000 Broadcom/Broadcom
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they both have the same amount of flash and ram and both support 3rd party firmware (DDwrt)
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now what I would love to see is a head to head review of the 2 routers with ddwrt on both. That review I would read.
Also, there is a new version of the 3700 the wndr37AV that has the same specs. Wont known hardware other than memory and CPU till I see a tear down. looks like it is a rebanded 3700 that is listed as full N instead of N2.0. there should be a firmware upgrade for the 3700 for that soon if not now.
(Edit: formatting and wording)
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BEFCMU10 v4 -Cable Modem
WRT54GS v4 - Tomato (primary)
WRT54G v6 - DD-WRTmicro (Parents Primary)
WRT54G v2.2 - Tomato (Grand Parent Primary)
WNHDE111 - 5GHz Bridge-AP (beta firmware v1.3.3)(Xbox360) |
