Robert O.
Joined on 10/02/05
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Works good after tinkering with settings

Pros: WAN and LAN performance were top notch initially, and once again after I modified some settings after speaking with Linksys techs. Many nifty security and performance options avaialble as long as you aren't connecting many devices.
Cons: Noticed that throughout the day that the bandwidth on the WAN side degraded throughout the day to where I had to reset the router. Put in an older outer (wrt310) and no problem. Finally got fed up and contact linksys and troubleshot with a tech. Because I have up to 8 devices connected at any one time I had to change some of the default settings. I'll list those settings changes reccomended by linksys in the other thoughts sections
Overall Review: setup - mtu 1365 Advanced wireless settings - beacon 50 frag threshold 2306 App Gaming QOS - wmm support disable Hope this helps!
Getting slower

Pros: Easy management of shares, large space, multiple raid options
Cons: Services such as iTunes server don't work as advertised and transfer speeds started slow and became worse.
Overall Review: The transfer speed on this has gotten so slow that my wife and I are thinking about ditching it all together and getting 3TB USB3 drives. It takes almost an entire day to backup one of our pcs.
Sparkle delivers

Pros: Smooth install and great performance gains. Had zero issues when installing this in to my cooler master HAF-22 and ASUS p6x58d premium mobo. Ran the Unigine Heaven benchmark with a 1647 score averaging 65fps with settings at 1920x1080. This was about 30fps more that I was getting with my replaced 285 GTX. Also rain Black Ops cranked and it looked wonderful. Great card for the price compared to other 580s.
Cons: none
Overall Review: Haven't overclocked it and probably won't, runs stable and cool as is.
updated review - FAIL

Pros: Simultaneous dual band, gigabit LAN
Cons: Doesn't work like it is supposed to. This is my second review of this product. I've been on tech support with Linksys twice, with two of these routers and have the same problem each time that linksys can't figure out. My WAN throughput drops from 30Mbps down to about 3Mbps after a couple of hours. I've used different routers that didn't have this problem; latest firmware. I highly DO NOT reccomend this router.
Overall Review: So is the whole simultaneous dual band router out the door? I've looked at reviews for DLink and Netgear and the seem to be laden with bugs also. Why can't anybody make a decent dual band router?
Issues out of the box

Pros: Dual band wireless N 2.4 and 5 Ghz and 4x 10/100/1000 wired ports
Cons: I immediately started having issues with this router almost as soon as I hooked it up. As the day progressed I noticed my bandwidth on my WAN started degrading. Did the whole modem/router reset and it all came back. Later in the day same issue..trouble shot with ISP and figured out modem wasn't the issue. Every 3-5 hours I would have to hard boot the router to regain lost bandwidth. Did a firmware upgrade and still have/had same issue. I connected by older router back up and didn't have the issue/confirmed non modem issue, it's this router.
Overall Review: The listed capabilities are great, just not the actual performance.
Not as advertised

Pros: Drives are working great, no errors in transfering data. Keeps running and running without having to do re-starts. Streaming from it to my PS3 works fine over wireless g speed.
Cons: The supplemental services such as being an iTunes repository don't work great, have to re-start the service to get it to work properly for both Mac and Win machines. Also the internet radio streaming hasn't worked at all since I've had it.
Overall Review: If you're only interested in this for backup/storage you're getting a solid NAS. If you are inticed by the extra bells and whistles it offers, don't be.
