Pros: A lot of expert reviewers have already given a lot of information. I am going to focus on some other points that haven't already been made twenty times: If you don't tweak anything, and more or less set it up as quickly as possible: 802.11n performance on the 2.4GHz band was very good. Perhaps not top of the line, but still, very very good. 5GHz performance was really excellent, definitely thought this was top of the line. Not surprisingly, I guess, since 802.11ac--this router's main thrust--solely resides on 5GHz band. I was struck at once at how "idiot-proof" the router seems to be, for routers of this complexity. At only a slight cost to the power user, it seems like just about anyone should be able to get this running reasonably well out of the box. I don't know if I'd buy my grandmother this router, but for anyone else, I think they can easily manage it and really have a good experience. One feature I liked instantly was the "Wireless AP mode" (i.e., wireless "access point" mode), wherein you essentially plug this router into another (presumably older) router that you can't get rid of (say, for example, because you have Verizon FiOS and can't ditch their ridiculous Actiontec router because you have a MoCA bridge), and then the router effectively becomes a pass-through, DHCP'd, client of the upstream router, and all the features that are therefore irrelevant in that mode are not even available on the menu. Sure, it's not a big deal to handle that yourself if you need to, but this feature made it quite easy, and was well-implemented in the router. I am able to crank out fully saturated file transfers SIMULTANEOUSLY on both bands without the router even noticing. Very nice, simultaneous, band performance. You have a couple of choices for the transfer speed (independent controls, also, for each band). If I set the 2.4GHz band to its minimum n-mode ("up to 145 Mbps"), I get real nice 50+ Mbps throughput all throughout the house on suitably equipped devices (this is actually very good for 802.11n in this mode for the real world). If you push to its highest mode, and let it use 40 MHz (i.e., "double") channels, I got about 70Mbps on it, but I didn't play long with it, because I don't like chewing up that much RF. Similar for the 5GHz. Overall I'm very happy with what this router brings to the table. It appears to do what it advertises, and particularly, for a router of this potency to be this "usable" to someone else who might know exactly what they're doing, I think it's a very good product. I'm pleased to have had the opportunity to review it. My WLAN servers have had a considerable improvement in speed and responsiveness, which I like, and the 802.11a performance is really excellent--very useful, indeed, if you are in a very Wi-Fi saturated place and need some RF Lebensraum. :) See continued "pros" in the "Other thoughts" section.

Cons: Oddly for a router designed for the power user, the firmware only gives you a moderate smattering of advanced controls. For example, you can NOT set the "beacon interval", even though you can set the long/short preamble, and so on, and so on. Weirdly, you cannot use this router with the built-in "wireless repeater" mode with WPA (or higher) security settings. It's very clear about it--the minute you switch it to wireless repeater mode, it tells you to make sure you're using, at most, WEP (or even NO security). That's definitely odd, and makes this feature a non-starter for me. This surprised me: on the channel selection for the 5GHz band, If you choose one of the lower ones, it really complains, and tells you "You should really pick a higher numbered channel for best results". Really? Why? I was intrigued, so, just the same, I picked a lower channel to see, and the signal strength seemed to be at least 15dB less on lower channels vs. higher channels, even though there were no interfering signals. I am wagering that this is because the internal antenna for the 5GHz is more tuned to the higher frequencies, so you get a bad SWR on the lower channels. That 5GHz band is a LOT of range to cover, and I guess there's just no reasonable antenna design to cover the whole band without losing some gain. Just something to be aware of. So the high channels are best, by a big margin.

Overall Review: Firmware was slow and a bit dodgy out of the box--but a firmware update was a great improvement. Another feature, which you see more and more of these days, is the ability to offer "guest" networks, optionally. In this case, your router provides not only your own personal high-security network with its LAN etc, but allows you to also simultaneously broadcast a second SSID, which is for a purported "guest" network. These have INDEPENDENT security settings, independent SSIDs, and can be offered on one, or both, bands (with different security and SSID or whatever, at your discretion). The nice thing about this is you can easily turn them on and off, and you can set it so anyone on the "guest" networks has no route to any of your private network LAN clients (so they can spread their viruses or whatever to you). The USB port is interesting. I've always felt these were more a "solution in need of a problem"--I feel like anyone smart enough to really get good use out of the USB port won't actually NEED to, because he would have a NAS or a SAN or whatever. That being said, I stuck a USB drive in there just to explore it, set it up as a remote SMB mount, and put a bunch of music on there and it was fine, and worked as it was supposed to. You could similarly stick a nice 2TB external USB drive on there, or whatever (and I suppose that's easy enough if you don't know what a "NAS" is). In the router configuration you can set it to access the USB by SMB/network neighborhood (also compatible with Mac), and/or FTP and/or HTTP (those are all LAN side only), and you can also set up WAN-exposed HTTPS and a special WAN-exposed FTP if you wanted to do that (which, I hope you DON'T want to do, but it's there)--I assume it'll do the port-forwarding kung-fu for you. You appear to have significant permissions controls, as well as virtual mount points/directories, for whatever mass storage device you plug into the port. Like I said, seems mostly like a solution in need of a problem, but, a lot of people like it, and this particular implementation looks good. There is also a way to share, over the network, a USB printer using this port. I didn't explore that (since, like you, I have only wireless printers, duh!). There are some parental controls (which of course, you don't get to use if you're running in a special mode, such as "repeater" or "AP" mode), and some scheduling controls, but these all appear to be quite simple, and basic. Also, if you want to do really advanced filtering--say, by particular source or destination IPs or ports or what have you, your options on that seem to be quite constrained--almost non-existent, unless I'm missing something. FIRMWARE NEWS: There is some evidence out there that openWRT and/or DD-WRT will work on this router, and people are beginning to compile it for the R6250. Probably that will unlock all kinds of awesomeness once that's more mature.

Pros: The device comes with a fairly high capacity battery. Doubles as an (extremely expensive) card reader. Doubles, also, as an (extremely expensive) backup power source for your micro-USB phone. Device is aesthetically pleasing. And, now I'm out of pros. I did actually mount an SD card and browse a few pictures, successfully, until the Android app crashed. I've been trying to get this device working for more than 30 seconds at a time for about a week. See below. Probably is just about the right thickness to use as a doorstop, so that might be handy.

Cons: Notwithstanding the other couple of reviewers that seems favorably dazzled by this odd, niche, product, I am totally and irretrievably underwhelmed. And that's being gentle. I'm sorry Kingston :( It does not REALLY work. Definitely not ready for prime time. The Android app (check it yourself) is poorly rated, and really appears to have subpar usability and reliability. This is slightly problematic as the device is USELESS without brokering through the proprietary software apps for your device. The software was barely stable/usable enough for me to connect in the most simplistic configuration---the touted "wireless" bridge mode, that is supposed to connect to a real wi-fi network, refused to connect. Twenty-six times. It did connect once for about 2 seconds. And while we're at it, the Android app, even when on a dual-band enabled device (such as the Galaxy S3), will only use 2.4 GHz access points. Come on. Amateur hour, guys. The App, itself, went into a zombie unresponsive mode a few times on my Galaxy S4--had to force close. Oh, and, by the way, you'll be connecting, out of the box, with zero wifi security. I am not sure how something with this many, and this obvious, of flaws gets to prime time distribution from a company like Kingston. This is ridiculous. If I ever programmed something with this many holes in it that would be uncovered in so few seconds of actual real-life testing, I'm pretty sure I'd have a lot to answer for at work. And even if it worked, I'm skeptical. Why would any of us want this, really? See the thoughts below.

Overall Review: Full Disclosure: I am a NewEgg Eggxpert Reviewer who has only had generally good things to say about other products I've reviewed, and I'm also a shameless Kingston fan. Even with those two facts going for it, I am still horrified at how ridiculous this item is, and how badly the software and protocol are (at least---the software/protocols don't work long enough for me to appreciably assess the hardware). To me, this is really a (very, very bad) solution in need of a problem. What $60 problem are we solving with this? The item, in my opinion, doesn't work. But, let's suppose it worked flawlessly. Where does that leave us? Sure, there'll be a couple people out there who'd like to use the alleged functionalities of this device to browse/stream/whatever media or to offload some space or to share with friends some media wirelessly. What have you. (Of course, again, that's moot, since the software doesn't seem to work). But it doesn't matter. By the time Kingston patches the holes and flaws in this device, and makes something usable, the technology will move on to something else and this little device will be moot. This reminds me EXACTLY of the failed Sandisk V-Mate, which, when it came out, seemed like a "neat" solution to a problem (recording video from TV to SD card/.mp4 format), but it was full of bugs, and by the time they got the bugs ironed out, no one needed this device anyway, and it was a solution to a non-existent problem. They were almost $100 out of the gate, and within a few months, you could buy them up for $10 on woot. I'm pretty sure we'll see these Kingston whatever-they-are on woot for $12 before next spring. I'm sorry Kingston. I love you Kingston, really, I do, but this item is poop, and I'm going on record on Newegg with an honest thumbs down. We'll see if Newegg is good on their claim that strongly negative reviews on expert review items won't be considered a contraindication for future participation as a reviewer ;)

Pros: So it's very spacious. Palatially spacious. And it looks good.

Cons: It's so big that I could BARELY get the fan cables and RGB cables connected to the motherboard. It's really ridiculous.

Overall Review: It's so big that to be honest my computer build looks ridiculous. Even though I have a full size ATX motherboard in there, it's like, 85% of the space is just empty. The motherboard looks like a tiny triscuit in a gigantic cave. Really, you only want this if you have gigantic graphics cards and fancy cooling and all that jazz. And it does have some weird quirks. There is no reset button. Let me say that again. There is no reset button. There are no LEDs on the panel. No hard drive activity LED, no power LED--yes, the power button lights up, but that's only because it's powered by the same mechanism that powers the RGB stuff. But believe me when I tell you, there is only the power switch connector, and the USB connector, and the HD audio panel connector. That is it. So it's ultra-gigantic, and ultra-minimal, at the same time. The RGB fans my white one came with are very pleasing though. If I could do it over, I'd get the non-XL version of this case.

Pros: It's certainly better than what's built into the TV (Samsung Q7), but that's not a high bar.

Cons: It's surprisingly not loud. Using digital optical, for example, had to set it up around 25 or 30 for regular levels. Furthermore, it is not even remotely seamlessly operational with Samsung's flagship and current model television---I have to go into settings every time I turn it on and switch it to the sound bar. The audio quality I would say is inferior to a $50 pair of computer speakers, and its technical operation is weak. I wound up using it in Bluetooth mode, because that seems to maintain its connectivity between power cycles of the television, but really, I was disappointed, both with the audio quality, and the technical polish.

Overall Review: I really should have listened to some of the reviews elsewhere---it seemed like perfectly intelligent people were having identical problems. I am going to keep the product, simply because the hassle of a return isn't worth it. But I'm not recommending this item.

Pros: Used it in a low power FreeNAS build paired with X11SSM mobo and half a dozen HDD's. It's not even breaking a sweat. My server at idle is drawing about 44 watts input, which (at 10% of the max) you would not necessarily expect to be efficient, but I'm still getting way better than "bronze" specs on the efficiency, even at this bottom end. PF was also surprisingly good, 0.97 or better at this end of the range. Can't hear any PSU noises at all, seems great. 12V rail showing 12.38V, 5V rail showing 5.000V, 5V standby showing 4.91, 3.3 standby showing 3.23V. etc. Everything looking well-calibrating. At this price point, I don't anyone is even on the map versus this Seasonic unit. Fed it real nasty stepped power from a cheap UPS just to see what would happen as a test. Didn't even care. Put out beautiful power on the rails.

Cons: Does not come with a crisp $50 bill attached to the unit.

Overall Review: buy buy buy buy

Pros: I've been a big fan of the X10 Supermicro motherboards for years, and was confident about buying this X11 board for my new FreeNAS build. It did not disappoint. Functioning well, no problems.

Cons: Still has the Java IPMI! I will look forward to that being updated, which, evidently, will be soon.

Overall Review: Mine came with the most up-to-date BIOS v2.0a already installed. Thank {deity of choice}. Buy buy buy.