Pros: This router is absolutely rock solid. I had frequently-used devices connected to both bands simultaneously throughout my entire period of testing, and I never noticed even an intermittent connection issue. I did have some outages in my area, but the problem was between my modem and my ISP. Cannot stress how great the wireless connection was. I was running a continual ping as part of my testing, and it did not drop one packet. Seriously, not a single packet was lost (other than the aforementioned outage) over the course of 2 weeks. I have never seen that before, even with other solid routers. Wireless range was pretty good. My computers on the opposite end of the house had 2-4 bars, but they never dipped in speed, and never dropped connection. If you have a one-floor 5000 sq ft house or something, you may have issues, but range was about the same as competitors. Fast. It is unbelievable how incredibly quick 802.11ac is. I was able to max out my gigabit RAID5 NAS over a wireless connection from the other end of the house. 90MB/s transfer speed to my desktop. That's fast enough to stream bluray ISOs to multiple devices simultaneously. If you're used to ac speeds, then it may be nothing special, but the first time you get to take advantage of the near-gigabit wireless speeds, your jaw drops. All other wireless speeds are good too. I tested G (54Mb) and N (300Mb), and both were pegged at the maximum connection speeds the whole time. An awesomely amazing set of features in the browser UI. Config utility (192.168.1.1) is incredibly fast to load. I've never seen a router interface load so quick. One of the handiest things I found it that the router lets you apply multiple settings on multiple pages before restarting the router to apply the changes. No more restarting the router after every single setting change. Supports specifying time server IP, remote management, and settings for using it as an access point, station, bridge (point-to-point or multipoint, or WDS), and universal repeater. You can set it to never expire DHCP leases. This is amazing for people who don't want to mess with Windows' static IP settings, but have port forwarding rules for games/torrents. It defaults to this setting, FYI. You can also set up to 16 individual static IP leases, so you can "lock" IP addresses to your personal devices, but still keep the DHCP server running for guests. Full wireless controls. Allows for channel wireless a/b/g/n/ac, 2.4/5GHz, channel width (it will auto change on the fly if there is demand), data rate, MAC filtering, WPS, etc. Everything you could want to fiddle with. Full range of NAT controls as well, such as port forwarding/triggering, virtual server, UPnP, ALG, IGMP etc. Allows you to backup settings to a file on your computer, and restore them later, so if you have a fully functional setup but want to tinker, you can fiddle to your heart's content, and restore the working settings later in just a few click

Cons: Some settings were a little finnicky. For example, I like to change my routers to 192.168.0.1 from the default 1.1, but once I changed it, I was no longer able to access the UI from the browser, and lost internet connection until I unplugged the ethernet cable from my machine and plugged it back in. I could access it through wireless the whole time, though. No guest network, which is weird since some of the more unique wireless settings really don't make much sense unless you have a lot of guest traffic. No USB storage. Most routers' USB storage isn't all that great anyway (most I've seen max out at 8-10MB/s transfer), but it is definitely a handy feature to have. Firmware upgrades require you to download the file from the website first, and the router has no way to check for new firmware. Not at all a major con, but it's nice when the router will autoconnect to the manufacturer website and get the latest version, or notify you when a new version is available. I wish the antennas (antennae?) were detachable, but it's not a big deal.

Overall Review: Overall, this router may not have all the bells and whistles that other routers in its price range have (such as guest networks and USB), but it has some fantastic tweakability, and the features it does have are amazingly reliable. Speed through n and ac were outstanding, wireless strength was good, and the signal never dropped even once. I really wish it had a guest network though, since I have an old Tivo that can only support WEP encryption, so I have to leave a wireless network open with MAC filtering. As I was unable to do that with this router, I had to use a wireless adapter that connects via ethernet, which I would have liked to avoid. Honestly, if you're considering this router, then you obviously don't need USB. It's odd that a router aimed at the higher-end of the market is missing some of the more basic functions, but what this router does, it does amazingly well. I don't feel an egg deduction is warranted, since the features list is pretty well spelled out before a purchase is made, but I would take off half. Unfortunately that's not allowed, so 4.5 eggs rounds up to 5. Obviously, your mileage may vary.

Pros: I like the port placement. Allows for 4 fat plugs to go in. Cheap, and from a generally reliable brand.

Cons: But it broke. First off, I was unable to plug 4 regularly-used devices into it. Each device had it's own power supply so that wasn't a factor, but after a short while, my devices would start dropping. Bypassing the hub IMMEDIATELY solved the issue. This device apparently functions better as a place-holder for 4 devices that you use rarely, but don't want to keep plugging/unplugging. It worked fine in that regard for a few months, and then just died. It allows one device to transmit through it still, which is weird but useless.

Overall Review: I liked the functionality and it was cheap, so I gave it 2 eggs pending Belkin's RMA procedure. Ultimately I can't recommend it though.

Pros: Not much to say, as this is a fairly simple product. -It works fantastically. It had no problem charging my iPhone 4, iPad 2, and even my classic 80GB iPod. I let my sister (who has an iPhone 5) borrow it, and she says it worked well for that too. I could have sword the iPhone 5 had a lightning port on it though, so she must have the lightning -> 30-pin adapter. -The LED is pretty cool. It lets you see from across the room the charging status of your devices. -Cheap price. The Apple branded cable is easily double this price.

Cons: -Obviously, it would be nice if the cable were a little bit longer, but that's not a fault of this product, as it is clearly advertised and sold as a 3ft. -The list of supported devices is rather small. Other Apple devices have the 30-pin plug, too, so I'm not sure what the deal is. Maybe those other devices will charge, but the LED won't function or something?

Overall Review: It's a cable. It charges. It's cheap. What more could you possibly need?

Pros: This is a unique little device. It's clearly aimed at people who travel a lot with multiple devices, and I have to say it solves a need I didn't realize I had. Check out other thoughts for more detail. -This thing is tiny. Easily smaller than a cell phone, pack of gum/cigarettes, etc. -Surprisingly good rance. It is seriously almost as good as my main home router. It is able to fill my 3,000 sq ft 2-floor home with at least 2 bars. I did start to notice more packet loss at the far reaches of range, but this router is really meant for hotel rooms, so it's still impressive. Unless you're staying in the sprawling multi-room penthouse suite in The Hangover, you'll be fine. -Decent speed. I have a 50/30 Mb internet connection at home, and I was able to get about 25/25 with this router with a google ping time of 31ms. Obviously, you wouldn't want to replace your home router with this, but given its tiny profile, cheap price, and intended use (travelling), it's impressive. Especially considering... -Ridiculously low power usage. It runs off a USB port, and only requires 500mA. I can run it off the USB port of my main router. I even tested running it off of a small pocket-sized USB battery pack, and it ran for almost 8 hours. Any cell phone/tablet/Kindle charger will handle this with ease. -Stable. I noticed a little bit of packet loss, but I never lost connection to the router or the internet. I even tested always-online games like Diablo 3. When in hotel rooms, I noticed some connection issues, but as those issues were never present at home, I'm led to believe that those were hotel issues. -Easy configuration. All of the login/WiFi information is right on the back of the unit, and the config utility loads up quickly enough. -Configuration options are on the basic side, but have everything you would need to support laptops/tablets/phones, etc. Keep in mind that this device is meant to provide multiple (and wireless-only) devices with internet while on the road, and not meant for bittorenting behind a MAC-secured, non-broadcasting 802.11ac network from behind a VPN. -Simplifies wireless access when travelling to family member's houses. See other thoughts.

Cons: -Small amount of packet loss when pinging. I never noticed any hiccups while downloading or playing games though, so I wouldn't consider it a big deal. -The built-in USB cord is a little disappointing. I get that they were trying to make the device all-inclusive and small (and they succeeded), but it does create a little bit of a hassle having to put the router right next to your USB power source AND right next to the ethernet port. It would be nice if they put a mini-USB or USB-B plug and let you use your own cord. Especially since I'm sure there are a slew of cheap USB chargers putting out interference. -The ethernet cable is also a bit of a hassle. It's nice and small, and crazy thin, but it's very short, and not easy to get back into the travel case. Honestly, I just left the "storage" half of the case in the box and used an ordinary ethernet cord. -The router is only 10/100M. I wouldn't really consider this a big problem either though, since given its target market (travellers), not only would there hardly EVER be a need for faster-than 100Mb transfer speeds (either local devices or to the internet), but hotel internet speeds are NEVER that fast. Also, this device is so low power, I doubt it could do more than 100Mb/s anyway.

Overall Review: I brought this router with me on a family week out of town, and it was perfect. While testing it at home, I configured all my devices to accept it as a wireless network (2 laptops, 1 tablet, 2 smartphones, PS Vita, etc), and all my devices had stable, usable internet connections within a minute of walking into the room. I also brought this into my family member's house, and when I got there, I plugged this router into an ethernet port on his router (and the power into the router's USB port), and had internet access within a few minutes. No need to get his wireless password and manually enter it on all my devices. Granted, if you have applications that require specific port forwarding (gaming, bittorrenting, etc.), then you might have issues, but for basic internet access, it was phenomenal. I can't see myself using this router all that often, but every single time I travel and stay in hotel rooms or a loved one's house, this will definitely be in the bag ready to go.

Pros: -Handiest feature is how soft and pliable the USB cord is. Only joking. It is very flexible, though, which comes in very handy since this unit is extremely light. -Detachable (and I'm assuming upgradable) antennas, although putting anything heavier on this device will likely tip it over. -Decent connection strength. The limiting factor here may have been my router, but this maintained not quite as good a connection as my other devices do. It was never an issue, but it's a little disappointing given it was outperformed by my 4-year-old laptop's internal card, for one. -Fast speed. When I first tested this from the other end of my house, I could only get 144Mb at the most, but I tested plugging it into a USB3 port instead (no difference of course) before piggy-backing a different router into my network. I was able to maintain solid 300Mb through the other router. -Stable. I've never really had much luck (or love) for USB wireless adapters, but this one did a good job. I dropped a few pings in testing, but I never lost connection while gaming or using Youtube/Netflix, so it did its job swimmingly. -Supports all the standard encryption types (including ol' WEP, although you may want to upgrade your network if you're still using that). -Activity lights are always nice. This one is only really noticeable when looking straight at it, so at night time, it won't make you feel like you're in a Twilight Zone episode.

Cons: -Kind of teetery (even tottery). The unit itself was so light that I think the antennas (antennae?) outweighed it. In addition, the bottom edge of the antennas stuck out at an odd angle, so the adapter itself would not sit flat unless you pointed both antennas almost straight-up. -Somewhat large. Taking both these cons into effect, this adapter would work best either out-of-sight, or in a static mounting position. Unfortunately... -No mounting holes. This unit isn't so large that I really expected them, but with its wobbliness and topheaviness, they would be an awesome addition. -You HAVE to install the drivers from the CD. That's not worth an egg deduction by any means, but I still prefer not having to do that. -Connection speed fluctuated a lot. I'm not sure if the unit was having legitimate issues, but during all my testing, the connection speed never dipped below my demands, so it was likely just adjusting on the fly. -No 5GHz. 2.4GHz works just fine, but there are a LOT more devices that utilize that band, so the potential for interference is much greater.

Overall Review: As mentioned above, I am generally not a fan of USB adapters, but this one did everything I asked of it. It's a little large, a little goofy looking, and a little wobbly, but it gets the job done well. Make sure you take a look at your router settings if you're having connection/speed issues. The router I initially tested with could only maintain 144Mb at the highest, despite being set for 450Mb on the 2.4GHz channel. My other router (also set for 450Mb 2.4GHz) worked at the full 300Mb speed right away.

Pros: -Home page of the UI is nice. The widgets give you a nice overall view of the router/network. You can configure which ones show up, too. Overall, it is extremely informative. There are some downsides though (see cons). -It includes all of the standard features. Port forwarding / triggering (both single port or range), DMZ, 2.4GHz/5GHz, wireless g/n for 2.4GHz or n/ac for 5GHz, additional guest network (2.4GHz), security settings (MAC filtering either by only allowing certain ones or only excluding certain ones, WEP/WPA/WPA2/Mixed), DLNA media server, USB storage, FTP Server through USB, WPS, DHCP Server, NAT routing, IPv6, all the goodies. -Great speeds through all connections. Through both the 2.4GHz and 5GHz networks, I was able to max out my ISP connection, downloading at over 7MB/s from Steam. -802.11ac is blazingly fast. Compared to N, it won't help your internet connection speed or transfer rates through USB, but if you have a fast NAS or another computer hardwired in that you are transferring files to, you will definitely see a speed boost. Transferring to my NAS, I was able to sustain about 75MB/s transfer, which is over twice as fast as my other routers. It truly is right up near gigabit speed. -Lets you set up a priority list, so that if you're playing a frantic match of Red Orchestra online, the PS3 streaming Netflix in the other room won't cause you to have any hiccups or lag spikes. I wasn't able to choke my bandwidth in any real-world situations to where I could test out this feature, but I have no doubts that it works at least decently well. -Nice set of Parental controls, allowing you to set up specific profiles for each computer. It allows you to restrict either time of day usage, blocking specific sites, or a combination of the two. -WPS, which some love, but I always turn off. -SimpleTap, which allows easy connectivity with NFC (near-field communications) devices. I don't have any NFC devices, and I'm not sure just how necessary that feature is, but it's pretty cool, and I'm sure some people will love it. -2 USB ports have a good feature set. You can set up private shares, folder access, use it as an FTP server or DLNA server, and it tells you the folder access path of the USB drive right in the overview tab. I always wondered why more routers didn't give you that information more easily. Supports NTFS drives, which not all routers do. It even provides enough juice to power portable USB hard drives. -Internet speed test in the router itself. Very handy if you're having speed issues on your computer, and aren't sure whether the problem lies between you and the router, or between the router and your ISP. The results of the speed test were accurate in my case, as well.

Cons: -Range isn't that great. To be fair, it worked perfectly fine for me (router is on lower floor, computer is on upper floor as far from the router as possible), but the signal strength reported by Windows was lower than I've seen with other routers. 802.11ac strength was regularly around 2 bars, sometimes even dipping to 1. -USB transfer rate is rather slow. I was able to sustain about 6MB/s, which is fast enough for streaming HD movie files, but not fast enough for regular backups to an attached USB drive. It's a shame, since the NTFS-formatted USB3 drive I tested is capable of 80+MB/s, and I was plugged in through ethernet. To be fair, though, I have yet to personally test a router with better USB functionality. -UI is sluggish. It's pretty and well spread out, but the looks and all those widgets come at a performance cost. Prepare to see the little spinning blue "waiting" logo a lot. -Not very stable. The most recent firmware helped a TON, but it still disconnects randomly on all networks (even when signal strength is 100%), and seems to reset itself every few days. Once again, the new firmware has cut out probably 90% of the issues for me, but if you're looking for a router that can be utilized 24/7 with absolutely zero down time, this might not be it. It's never down for long, and I often didn't even notice when it had issues, but there were certainly some. -802.11ac is especially delicate. I had more drops and worse connection strength through ac than through either 2.4GHz G or 5.0GHz N. It's still a new technology though, so that's kind of to be expected. -Set up was strange. After configuring both wireless networks, my laptop couldn't see the 5GHz network at all. I went in and fiddled with the 2.4GHz channel and saved changes, and the 5GHz network appeared. I went back and changed the 2.4GHz settings back to what they were, and the 5GHz network was still accessible. This leads me to think... -UI is very finnicky. It's very nice-looking, but if you're setting this up without internet access, prepare to have lots of broken images and missing parts on the page. It even took a few extra steps to get into the browser UI, which is never a good thing. If you installed the desktop software from the CD, it might help with that aspect, but I'm really not a fan of using standalone management programs when the browser UI and Windows network settings are good enough. The set up wasn't horrible or anything, just slightly more complicated than I've ever dealt with for a home router. -No status LEDs on the face, other than the big Cisco light which blinks during outages.

Overall Review: If you are having issues, make sure the first thing you do is update the router firmware, it helps a lot. In my case, when I first started testing this router over 6 months ago, I was having TONS of issues. It turns out that not only was my wireless adapter in my desktop dying, but my modem itself was dying as well. Once I finally got them replaced, this router was much more stable. If you're having nothing but issues with this router, make sure you look at all links in the chain. I'm not saying this router is perfect though, as I had my fair share of disconnections, but there might be something else wrong. That being said, this router is kind of a mixed bag. It has some great features, the UI is pretty, and 802.11ac is fantastically fast, but the UI is sluggish, the router could certainly be more stable, and it's expensive. It lacks some of the features that its competitors have (dual guest networks, IP/MAC address binding, etc), but it can also be argued that those features aren't really necessary. Overall, with the latest firmware, I am pleased with this router, but could be happier. It gets 3.5 eggs from me. Before the firmware update, it would have maybe gotten 2.