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Daniel S.

Daniel S.

Joined on 06/16/05

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Most Critical Review

Doesn't work as advertized

TRENDnet TEW-731BR N300 Wireless Home Router
TRENDnet TEW-731BR N300 Wireless Home Router

Pros: Quick setup, has WAN to LAN firewall feature.

Cons: Firewall doesn't work. Range is less than half the distance of my old TEW-452BRP unit (whose firewall does work).

Overall Review: Bought this to outfit another WAN address so we could see each others private HTTP servers using the WAN address to LAN address firewall. Few routers allow this type of filtering. My old TEW-452BRP works just fine and I bought this TEW-731BR because it was the only TrendNet with this featuure. To bad it doesn't work.

Not for HTPC use!

ASUS M4A89GTD PRO/USB3 AM3 AMD 890GX SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 HDMI ATX AMD Motherboard
ASUS M4A89GTD PRO/USB3 AM3 AMD 890GX SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 HDMI ATX AMD Motherboard

Pros: Looks nice.

Cons: Beware! Second monitor is ONLY via VGA. Cannot use HDMI and DVI together. HDMI output will not properly fill a std 1080p flat screen monitor. It leaves a 1 to 2 in black border all around the display. Will NOT work with PCI DTV tuner cards (AverMedia A180). PCI bandwidth is less than a 7 yr old Pentium MoBo.

Overall Review: ASUS customer support is unhelpful. For ex. on the tuner problem, "If possible, please try to find another PCI device and check if the PCI slots could work well." My A180 tuner works perfectly in my 7 yr old Sony VAIO desktop, but is too much for this MoBo.