Pros: Works well (with good caps), easy to install, no configuration necessary, works immediately with Verizon DSL.

Cons: Purchased May 21, 2012 here at Newegg. Received version 6. Less than 2 years later, performance become erratic, then completely unusable. Defect is same as many modern electronic devices -- bad caps. 6 of the 7 caps were defective (most developed high ESR, low capacitance, and one went completely open). Replacing them fixed the modem.

Overall Review: I understand the need to keep manufacturing prices low, and I don't expect Nichicon or Panasonic caps for the low price of the product, but honestly they should use at least a decent respectable "middle-of-the-road" capacitor manufacturer. The modem did fail during warranty (although close to end of the warranty), but repair was easier than dealing with TP-Link and the extended downtime. That probably makes TP-Link happy that they "got a free one" by not having to honor the warranty, but considering the poor quality caps that they used, I probably will no longer buy TP-Link, which means they lost a customer (and I buy a lot of high-tech products).

Pros: good range

Cons: security breach via backdoor in firmware. Trend Micro says that the backdoor has NOT been properly fixed, only lamely patched. Cannot trust a company that has backdoor in firmware, then takes very little effort in making a patch.

Overall Review: Cannot trust it, so will not use it. Wasted purchase.

Pros: price

Cons: Summary: I received version 8.2, and my router is junk. It requires a reboot every day or two. Unit freezes and is completely unresponsive. Web UI is unresponsive. Power cycle corrects problem. No firmware updates. More detail: I have 5 devices connecting to the unit via Wi-Fi, and 1 wired Qnap NAS. I have been doing a lot of transfers of data from the pc's to the NAS (pc's connecting to router via wi-fi, NAS connected to router via wire). Ever since I started making these large data transfers inside my LAN, the router has started to freeze every day or two. Apparently it cannot handle the transfers, either due to firmware bug or hardware defect.

Overall Review: I contacted Tp-Link support, who was friendly and promises to call me back within 1 day for a replacement. I will expect Tp-Link to cover the shipping costs for the return/exchange. If they handle the situation professionally and I receive a replacement that is not buggy, I will be happy to post a new review. For now, I suggest that you avoid this one. Recent reviews of this model have shown MANY low-ratings due to defective routers.

Pros: Good price/performance value.

Cons: 1) Very small improvement from a cheap 2.2GHZ single-core Sempron LE-1250. We upgraded several business PC's from LE-1250 to Athlon II 635, and for our workflow (photo editing - auto cropping, page rotation, etc.) there is only small improvement. Pages ~render~ slightly faster in Firefox, and the photo editing tasks are a little quicker. I am very surprised that I still sit and wait for page rotations and auto page cropping. I expected this CPU to bang out those tasks almost immediately when compared to the single-core Sempron. Athlon II 635 shaves 5 to 8 seconds off of those photo editing tasks. I really felt it would shave 15 to 20 seconds from them based upon a similar Intel quad-core system. 2) OEM heat sink is identical to that supplied with the LE-1250 Sempron. Had I know this, I may have spent less and chose an OEM dual-core Athlon II or Phenom II. Our PC's are lean & mean Vista X64 installations with 4GB ram and Biostar TF8200 A2+ MB's.

Overall Review: I expected more speed when jumping from a single core Sempron to a quad-core Athlon II, but I don't regret the purchase. As more apps (and Windows) become more multi-core efficient, this CPU will hopefully be better utilized in the future. A friend just purchased last month a new HP retail PC that came with an Athlon II quad-core cpu and Win7. He is also in the photo & printing business, and his results were similar. Nowhere near the speed he expected, and his old PC had a 1st-generation Athlon64. He is more disappointed than I am. Still, I think this CPU is a solid value, just keep your expectations slim.

Pros: It was very fast when it worked.

Cons: 1) more duds than you can count, (2) the company refuses to speak honestly about the issue, spreading FUD that the failures & firmware issues are nothing but a rare quirk and unlikely to occur. What a joke.

Overall Review: It is bad enough that these drives have fatal flaws, but then Seagate compounds the problem with POOR COMMUNICATION, OUTRIGHT LIES, and DENIALS. The CEO of Seagate should be publicly humiliated for his *incompetence* in addressing this situation, and forced to pay back every cent he EVER received from the company. He has shown ZERO leadership in this crisis. Apparently this genius does not remember the old Pentium 60 fiasco, and the lessons that Intel learned about how to handle a crisis. Denials, FUD, and Poor Communication are NOT a winning plan. A child should know better, let alone a multi-millionaire CEO of a public company. Embarrassing to be that incompetent. Seagate has EARNED it's way onto my NEVER AGAIN hardware list, joining only SONY (their Rootkit DRM issue) as companies that I will *never* buy from again. NOTHING. EVER. You CAN bank on this, and since I control the company IT purchasing, this is a LOT of lost business.

Pros: Specifications are good for a business motherboard -- 4 ram slots, 32GB capacity, Parallel Port, DVI, etc.

Cons: More Chinese garbage. (1) The board was defective (instantly reboots when trying to plug a USB device into front usb ports that are connected to the front usb headers) -- happens even during post, so definitely not an OS issue. Also tried latest bios update, no difference (2) Bios updates expect you to (a) have a floppy drive, (b) an obsolete OS that allows you to make a bootable floppy. Sure, everybody in 2009 has a floppy drive connected to their new Quad core PC. That shows incompetence. You can solve this bios issue yourself by visiting Ami Bios themselves, and downloading the Windows flash utility from them (and use the Bios file from ECS). The AMI flasher supports Vista x64 also. (3) no overclock options at all. In the past I have never OC'd, but cannot fathom why it does not have any OC capability.

Overall Review: Getting tired of this Chinese junk. Spent far too many hours on this board, eliminating other causes by swapping parts, etc. I would have paid twice as much to get QUALITY and avoid this frustration, but try to find a mobo with Parallel Port + DVI + 32GB capacity + AM2. Not many choices. My last experience with ECS was in early 1999, and that MB was junk also. Stuck with genuine Intel Mobo's since then (more than 30 of them...) and all were rock-solid. Wanted to make an AMD system, and hoped ECS was better 10 years later, but alas it was just as bad as the board I bought in early 1999.