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join:2003-06-05
Port Charlotte, FL | Hold Off I will keep using my older WRT54G for now. I like the fact that I can use larger antenna's to cover what I want. I will hold off for N right now. And with gas over 4 a gallon not spending extra funds. | |
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Surfinusa
Premium
join:2001-02-08 | $149 ? Funny, when I clicked on the link I only see the $199 price.
Only if you sign up for the Amazon CC does the price go down to $149.
Wonder if this changed? Seriously not like I was going to buy it but curious. | |
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dellsweig
Extreme Aerobatics
Premium,MVM
join:2003-12-10
Campbell Hall, NY | one question My one and only question - is it VXworks or Linux based? | |
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gjrhine
join:2001-12-12
Pawleys Island, SC | $149 It was selling for $149 on Amazon early on July 3 and sold out. | |
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majortom1029
join:2006-10-19
Lindenhurst, NY
|  the wrt600n is just as good
why did linksys release the wrt610n when the wrt600n is still pretty new and does all the same things and more for the same price? | |
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Thane_Bitter
join:2005-01-20
London, ON | Re: the wrt600n is just as good ... and the WRT600n looks better as well. 
Chances are that the WRT610n costs less to produce then its predecessor.
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tmc8080
join:2004-04-24
Floral Park, NY | an educated consumer.. Keep in mind, you will still need DUAL BAND compatable adapters to utilize the 5ghz frequency spectrum, as plain-old 802.11n utilizes 2.4 as an overlay to G frequencies.. and makes them very choppy for 802.11g routers in the area. | |
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join:2005-02-11
Davie, FL | Re: an educated consumer.. An educated consumer would know that 802.11n is overkill for at least 95% of users. | |
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Skeedatl
Ah, push it - push it real good
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join:2007-12-26
The Cloud | Re: an educated consumer.. 802.11n is hardly overkill. | |
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join:2008-02-13
Hingham, MA | Re: an educated consumer.. I'm three floors above my wireless router on 802.11g, and I'm getting 48 mbps to the router... and this is the infamous Verizon FiOS standard Actiontec Router... is 802.11g really that bad? | |
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Camelot One
Premium,MVM
join:2001-11-21
Austin, TX
clubs:
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| Re: an educated consumer.. said by TheMG  :said by EPS :I'm three floors above my wireless router on 802.11g, and I'm getting 48 mbps to the router... and this is the infamous Verizon FiOS standard Actiontec Router... is 802.11g really that bad? Is that from an actual network benchmark or are you just pulling this from what Windows or your router is telling you? That has to be just what windows is claiming.
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tango65536
join:2001-12-26
Catonsville, MD
clubs: | WRT350N I am using the WRT350N now with dd-wrt. I bought it about a year ago since it had the gigabit switch included. $100 on sale.
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OhNoNotAgain
@wayport.net
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The round marketing-design team triumphed again over the square team, so we have another non-stackable, non-standable-without-bracket, incompatible-with-other-cisco product.
Round design people, please go infest Apple. Leave the technology companies alone. | |
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Rob
In Deo speramus
Premium
join:2001-08-25
Kendall, FL
 ·Comcast
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| Re: Beware the artists posing as engineers said by OhNoNotAgain :
Oh great.
The round marketing-design team triumphed again over the square team, so we have another non-stackable, non-standable-without-bracket, incompatible-with-other-cisco product.
Round design people, please go infest Apple. Leave the technology companies alone.
Hear Hear.
If they would just add the option for external antennas, and an add-on that would allow them to become stackable, that'd be great.
Slowly are we getting away from the stackable options, and it's sad. | |
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Tzale
Ron Paul - No Bailout Conservative
Premium
join:2004-01-06
NJ, USA
 ·Verizon FIOS
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| said by OhNoNotAgain :
Oh great.
The round marketing-design team triumphed again over the square team, so we have another non-stackable, non-standable-without-bracket, incompatible-with-other-cisco product.
Round design people, please go infest Apple. Leave the technology companies alone.
Exactly...
I don't give a shit what it looks like... When they take functionality away from my technology, I'm not impressed enough to offer $149+..
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join:2003-12-20
Ottawa, ON
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July 4th, @11:53PM
| Yup, that's what I was thinking. I'm not going to place my router as an art masterpiece, my router is hidden away anyway!
All I care for is functionality and the ability to stack them them together. | |
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sapo
Computer Love
Premium
join:2002-09-16
Sacramento, CA | Then go ahead and buy the expensive stuff, I doubt many users need what you people ask for. Even then I see many people here do overkill setups for the hell of it. | |
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Tzale
Ron Paul - No Bailout Conservative
Premium
join:2004-01-06
NJ, USA | . I'm still happy with 802.11g... I'll wait a while before I make the move to N. | |
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| jesseb_66
join:2002-12-06
Tucson, AZ | Re: . My WRT54G v 3 is doing fine. No need to upgrade anything yet. My laptop doesn't have N either. | |
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join:2004-01-16
San Antonio, TX
| Re: . Guys i have a quick related or non related not sure which applies but here goes..I curently use a linksys WRT54g v2."Up" Flashed to v4 gs on DD-wrt and am in the market to upgrade my router and DD-wrt software because i recently bought a new laptop which utilizes Wireless N and while i was neither for or against it came as a feature so i am curious to try it out.My question is what router would you guys recommend to jump into the N spectrum and not shut out my other "G" clients from the network, preferably something with nice features and a reasonable price.And DD-WRT support I love that software have been using it since 2006 so that is also preferred. Although not mandatory. | |
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tmc8080
join:2004-04-24
Floral Park, NY
| baby steps.. realize your dealing with the parent company: cisco
they make these product improvements VERY VERY VERY VERY slowly!! first incarnations of 802.11n are total crap and overpriced. my brother bought an 802.11n usb adapter just to see if the neighbor's n router would be any faster or more reliable a couple of doors away (which, from the advertisements of 802.11n-supposed to be MORE reliable at a distance).. well, IT IS NOT!! if anything it drops connection and is LESS RELIABLE than G or B... now, that could just be the first versions of this equipment..
their router was the linksys 310n and i was using a linksys wusb 300n adapter... and it sucked bigtime.. did much better with my netgear 802.11g usb adapter!
the whole point of 802.11n was to use channel bonding to multiply the throughput... for some reason either that was not happening.. or the signal strength of each device was pitiful at best. i seriously doubt the 610n is much better.
wait until they get to 810 or 1000x series.. then they just might produce something worth buying.. then again, maybe not.. if a competitors product does better, by all means, buy that instead! | |
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compulov
Premium
join:2001-01-20
Hightstown, NJ
| Didn't want N so much as 5GHz... I'd been investigating 5GHz APs for a while because 2.4GHz is almost completely useless in my apartment. Since I detect at least 19 other APs with the laptop, as well as my neighbor's 2.4GHz phone(s) and of course my microwave, I sorely wanted 5GHz. When I found the Netgear WNHDE111 5GHz A/N access point, I got it on a whim (or maybe it was desperation). I get a minimum of 80Mbit in real-world transfers (it can bounce higher on occasion) and nary a lost packet on some long-term (few-day) pings to my router. Yeah, it might be nice to have a dual-band solution, it's admittedly a bit *huge*, and I would like to eventually have an all-in-one router/ap for this, but it works very well and that's all that matters for now. I just wonder how long it'll be before the 5GHz channels are clogged. APs have more room to play with than 5.8GHz phones because of ~4.9 and lower 5.0 frequencies, but sooner or later (hopefully later) more people will have dual-band APs. | |
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