Pros: When used with other gear compatible with the RALink 30xx chipset, works great as both router and repeater. Decent range, good throughput, very easy repeater setup.

Cons: When used with gear NOT compatible with the RALink 30xx chipset, does not work at all. I have a Netgear router that the Encore can see, but cannot act as a repeater for, no matter what I do.

Overall Review: Read these reviews to get an idea of whether your existing equipment will work, if you are thinking of adding one of these as a repeater to an existing network. Too bad they quit selling the version with the 2 4dB antennas. This one only has 2 2dB antennas. Oh well, if it is important, buy some cheap higher gain antennas. Still a great value in my opinion.

Pros: Great concept: use standard low-power CPU, RAID controller, and Linux to create a robust NSA device. Looks like a reasonable motherboard design (and I've been involved in the design of a somewhat similar product). Decent component selection.

Cons: Very poor manufacturing quality: o plastic case is warped so that side does not meet top o the printing has been scraped off the Silicon Image RAID chip and the surrounding area looks like a strong solvent has been applied; small shavings from the top of the Silicon image chip were present in the case when opened o another Intel chip looks like it has been removed and replaced, but the printing is still on that chip. Other bogosities: o no feet on the case o fan too small for the job

Overall Review: This thing looks like it has been remanufactured and sold as new. Since the print has been scraped off the Silicon Image RAID controller chip, you have to wonder if they are using grey-market parts. Web research reveals that this box is trivially hackable too. There is no way that I am going to put something like this into one of my client's businesses. Might be OK for home use but the build quality does not inspire confidence. Overall the Thecus N2100 looks like it will probably fail before the hard drives do, if you use decent drives in it. Recommendation: AVOID! This one is going back to Newegg today. It's really too bad because the concept and design seem to be quite good. But the device as built appears to have been built by the very lowest bidder, who did a lousy job.

Pros: _relatively_ inexpensive compared to Canon, works well for a short time

Cons: throws out-of-toner error far too early

Overall Review: This toner cartridge works well when first installed in a Canon MF4350D. However, it causes the device to display the "out of toner" message after printing fewer than 1,000 pages at 5% or less coverage, even though it is rated for 2,000 pages at 5% coverage. Doesn't seem worth the price given the nuisance of the message, whether or not the cartridge is really out of toner. This is the first Rosewill product with which I have been completely unsatisfied, although overall my impression is that Rosewill-branded products are continuously decreasing in average quality over time. I have been a NewEgg customer since shortly after NewEgg appeared on the Web, and am sorry to say that NewEgg is no longer my first choice among tech retailers for online purchases. All good things must end I guess. I wish NewEgg the best and hope they can recover.

Pros: Relatively inexpensive, extremely efficient, great end-to-end frequency response on the only source tested thus far (Pandora 192 Kbps, Joe Satriani/Steve Vai/Stevie Ray Vaughan/Gary Hoey/Andy Timmons/etc.)

Cons: Guess I have really big ears. Cups just a bit small but tolerable. Squish 'em in there.

Overall Review: These are good phones for the money. In the long ago, I did some studio and concert work myself, and also worked for many artists as what we then called "button pusher" (technical consultant, mixing board and tape operator, mic placement, all that stuff). These phones are almost extraordinarily efficient, that is, they get very loud with a relatively low-intensity input signal. Don't have instruments, but if you remember Koss Pro4-AAs, these are about twice as loud at comparable input levels. My evaluation: good end-to-end response, a little heavy on the low frequency end, but I like that, good response out to at least 16KHz, reasonably accurate. Some harmonic distortion but truly not much at all. Much of that distortion is in the source I think. You can get better phones, but you'll pay the weight for them. For $31.99 I like these and recommend them. Not sure why some people find these "muddy" if they received a fully-functioning instance of this product. It could be that their hearing has been damaged by too much high-SPL listening. Those little sterocilia (hair cells) in the cochlea are delicate, no fooling, and easily blown out. To me, these phones are quite crisp and reasonably well-balanced throughout the auditory spectrum, a bit strong on the low frequency end as noted, gives a nice solid effect IMO. Some people might need EQ to overcome auditory deficits. Even with no EQ at all I find these phones pleasant to wear and listen to, although the cups could be a bit bigger for my old-man floppy ears.

Pros: Big, bright, good color, fast, a full-sized piece of glass unlike the piddley-diddley 1080 vertical resolution now standard, alas. (Relatively) cheap. No stuck pixels, no dead lines, hooray. Yet.

Cons: None so far. I like it. Well OK, it doesn't pivot or slide up and down, just tilts. I'll turn it on its side if I need that for some reason.

Overall Review: While only time will tell if this thing will hold up, out of the box it is big, bright, sharp, fast-switching, relatively cheap, and most of all: ‼ 1920 X 1200 ‼ As a coder, I hate that almost all monitors have gone 1920 X 1080. Hey guys, I need those 120 pixels, I am not watching movies or playing games, GET IT? I am writing and debugging code, and the more lines I get onscreen the better. Do YOUR developers work on squinchy 1080 monitors? Probably not, or not by choice anyway. My workplace only provides 1920 X 1080 because that's all they can get. Poor, very poor. Bought this on impulse after searching for 1920 X 1200 monitors and finding only 3, all refurbs! Last of the good old-time monitors? I guess from here it's on to 30-inch 2560 x 1600--at 5 to 10 times the price, bum city.

Pros: If and only if your base router works with this unit, it exceeds expectations as a repeater. Good signal. Extraordinarily easy setup as a NON-WDS repeater... WHEN it works. Can be flashed with DD-WRT (with some effort). Ralink RT3052 single-chip design. Works like a champ in production environment.

Cons: If your base router does not work with this unit, you will be annoyed that you spent your money and time on it. Relatively primitive firmware UI. Firmware is feature-sparse. Ralink RT3052 single-chip design. Does not work at all in test environment.

Overall Review: Last night this router defeated all attempts to make it connect as a non-WDS repeater to a NetGear as base (or primary) router. Today, connected with the greatest of ease to a Proxim 4000M AP running Proxim 4.0.12 firmware: hard reset, set to repeater mode in the top right-hand corner of the UI, soft reset, click Wireless and the Site Survey, enter the required information, and there ya go. Works very well indeed, greater range than expected even between steel-frame buildings with some steel doors in the way. Based on the Ralink RT3052 chip, along with ten thousand other cheap routers from many vendors. Can be flashed with DD-WRT (with some effort) since it is the same hardware and (essentially) firmware as the EnGenius ESR-9752 and the Rosewill RNX-EasyN4. Wish I could post the URL to the thread on dd-wrt dot com but the egg will nuke this review. Seek and ye shall find. So it somes down to, does your base router work with the RT3052? If so, you are good to go. If no