Pros: Great case especially considering the recent AMIR price.

Cons: Venting for hard drive fan placement could be a little more open.

Overall Review: An earlier post suggested that a mod would be needed to place a 120mm fan in the front of the case for the hard drive(s). Remove the four screws holding the hard drive case in place (hint: 2 screws inside case and 2 under the bottom), remove the door fan behind the luvers, remove the front bezel, screw fan to front metal frame, reassemble, and there's your mod.

Pros: Price, free extended warranty, function seems as good as my RNX-N150RT.

Cons: No wizards for repeater or bridge

Overall Review: Because of the price I snagged this model after owning and installing the RNX-N150RT for myself and a friend. This unit came with the latest firmware, only a couple weeks older than the 150RT's firmware. Yet, it had no selection for... see cons. To put this into perspective tho, the wizards in the 150RT were incomplete. Also, I seriously doubt one requires a wizard to make this router perform in either of those desired rolls. It should just require more learning. I know, who has time for that. True, but if your time is that valuable and you need a repeater or bridge, buy something else. I have an ASUS RT-N16 and it is quite good. There are others as well.

Pros: Customer service and firmware support, the reason I am providing this update is to describe my personal experience with ASUS support.

Cons: That I had a problem at all.

Overall Review: Purchase first made 11/24/2011, a Black Friday. Router came with old firmware but flashed easily to v3.0.0.3.78. Update supported previously unavailable Access Point roles besides router. SFSG. Continued to update thru .84,94, then router bricked on 3.0.0.3.96 update. Contacted ASUS thru phone no. listed in an ASUS response in ratings posts here at NE. I shipped back on my tab <$8. Shipped per their guidelines and promptly received what appears to be a new N16 in the box. Now cautious, I read the forums on TomatoUSB about this router and decided to update to ASUS v3.0.0.3.96. This firmware removed some of those AP config options but left me with the one I wanted--Cat5e between my home base router(RNX-N150RT) and N16 with now 2 wireless SSIDs, first for home base(south end) to modem and N16 for wireless range extention (north end of house). Happy ending.

Pros: Price, twenty clams with free shipping, stable and reliable.

Cons: Do not assume by entering into either Repeater or Bridge mode that all the settings will follow by default.

Overall Review: Using in AP Repeater mode to connect to an ASUS RT-N16. When using in other than router mode, remember to manually disable DHCP. Also, if exercising option to manually set the IP, do not set IP to the same as the root AP.

Pros: It works. The point of "Pros" is simply to say if the advertised features work and work as advertised... which it does. If it lacks features you assumed should be present, best you research your purchase better.

Cons: None to report.

Overall Review: I have yet to use USB 3.0 or SATA 6Gb/s. However, as a HTPC it works well enough. The video seems not entirely smooth when playing videos but no occasional stops or jitters so not blaming the Synology server or 100Mbps network. Perhaps when Llano comes out soon I'll put this little gem on desktop assignment. BTW, using i3-2100

Pros: Price by all means, but ONLY if you use 3rd party firmware. That makes it the best router I have every used.

Cons: Firmware very unfriendly.

Overall Review: I bought my 2nd 520gU about a month ago. I thought it was defective. I really wanted to make sure before I flashed it as I didn't want to return a modified unit to Newegg. I had to flash it with dd-wrt to find out it was fine. How? First, before connecting this router download dd-wrt.v24_mini_asus.trx from dd-wrt's site. 2nd, using enclosed CD, install ASUS's utilities. 3rd, connect router. 4th, set PC NIC to static IP 192.168.1.10, accept default mask. 5th, place router in restore mode by powering on router WHILE using paperclip to press in reset (in hole in back). Power LED should now be blinking. 6th, run Firmware Restoration program AS ADMINISTRATOR. How? right click menu icon. 7th, using Restoration program, locate the file downloaded in step 1 and press upload. Reboot router and there you are. Don't forget to reset your cable modem and return PC's IP to auto from static done in step 4. I didn't need to turn off my Norton firewall. I'm using Windows 7. Luck