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Brett L.

Brett L.

Joined on 01/05/12

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Product Reviews
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Most Favorable Review

Works; get what you pay for

TRENDnet TEW-650AP Wireless N150 18 dBm Access Point, WDS, Repeater and AP Client Bridge
TRENDnet TEW-650AP Wireless N150 18 dBm Access Point, WDS, Repeater and AP Client Bridge

Pros: - Solid price point for a wireless N router - Disabling WPS for security reasons actually does work (some routers don't actually disable WPS when you tell it to) - Decent feature list

Cons: - Drops wireless connections infrequently but reliably - No ethernet switch built in

Overall Review: We've had it for a business for over a year now, and it's on it's way to being replaced. We regularly have about ~15-20 laptops and phones on it, connections are dropping daily, if only temporarily. Lately it has been requiring a reboot to allow users to connect again. We got about a year of decent use out of it. Will probably replace with a better AP that can run DD-WRT or Tomato.

Most Critical Review

Dead in a month

Seagate Desktop HDD ST500DM002 500GB N/A 16MB Cache SATA 6.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive Bare Drive
Seagate Desktop HDD ST500DM002 500GB N/A 16MB Cache SATA 6.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive Bare Drive

Pros: - Decent price for an average size HDD

Cons: - Click of death within a month of using it

Overall Review: After reading the Backblaze report on HDD lifespans, my relatively poor history with Seagate drives and relatively good history with other brands, I find it hard to justify purchasing Seagate anymore. Too risky.