Pros: Works perfectly out of the box... Anyone who messes around with WMC is used to frustration - great software but a minefield of incompatibility, lack of ability to tweak setup and unexplained issues but fear not, plug the USB dongle for this in without the CD and Win recognizes and installs it and all your controls work immediately. Hallelujah! Want to control your set top with the IR blaster too? Yup that works too...

Cons: Would be nice if it had a button to CLOSE WMC or at least to de-maximize it when you've finished with it... Would also be nice if it was backlit, a bit smarter, keys a bit bigger but at the on-sale price who's complaining?

Pros: None

Cons: Worked fine as a wired router, but Wireless signal kept disappearing and every time I connected a second wireless device it crashed and rebooted. Reflashed the firmware and reset to factory defaults but each time the same so returned for replacement and hope that will be ok.

Overall Review: Use a bunch of Linksys predecessor WRT54G routers (the blue one with the two external antennas), which seem to offer much better range than this one - I guess the external antenna helps (though I have also used various Netgear routers with no external antennas and huge range they were MIMO Rangemax which I guess helps). Can't wait for the Newegg replacement, so have a Netgear on its way and will find something else to do with the Linksys.

Pros: Purchased on sale for $15 to replace my Asus RT-N12 which I understand was same inside as WNR2000V2. I've used the Asus for four years as an AP only, flashed with DD-WRT and it's been stable as a rock (need to reboot at worst every few months: never disconnected and the worst it ever did was report no internet connection when hard wired devices on the same network were fine, a problem which corrected itself after a minute or so). Recently the Asus started to drop the wireless connection, so time to replace. Only need single band and wanted gigabit ports so the obvious choice was Asus RT-N16 but that is $60+ so bought this on sale for $15 as stop gap. How bad could it be? I received Version 3 (Atheros chipset) in Netgear Factory Sealed Refurbished box, contents looked as new. I flashed it straight to DD-WRT and slotted it in. After ironing out settings it's been stable for 48 hours with no signs of dropped signal or internet connectivity, time will tell if it's as stable as the Asus.

Cons: The specs are obviously a bit dated i.e. no gigabit and no dual band, but I use a separate AP for 5GHz (and would strongly recommend everybody who wants a stable network does the same) and at $15 I decided I could live without gigabit on this (I have a large wired network with gigabit switches and router which drives my Windows Media Center/Silicondust TV tuner/extender needs but this is a just to be a wireless AP and doesn't handle TV signals). Like all Netgear routers I've ever had, it takes forever to boot up and settle down. Also, in comparison to the similar spec older Asus, the interface seems slower in DD-WRT and the memory utilization is higher - not sure whether this is hardware or because it's a different DD-WRT version. Finally I think the range on this is worse than on my old Asus but that is probably due to the lack of external antennas: I compensated by turning the TX power up from defaul (20) to 28 and now it seems fine. For me, the disposable price point makes up for the cons.

Overall Review: There is a good guide to flashing the V3 to DD-WRT here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2hVs_cTIDsI Check this out as the basic info/builds on the DD-WRT site seem to be wrong. Note mine came with the initial version of the Netgear firmware, so I didn't need to downgrade to this before flashing to DD-WRT as described in the video. Also I used the 05/27/2014 Beta version DD-WRT firmware for this router from the public downloads section rather than older versions because some versions pre April may use services that are affected by Heartbleed. Seems to work fine. Note that the "N-Only" wireless setting in DD-WRT seems to be broken on this (and other Atheros) routers: with that set I could connect with Win 7 pcs and iphones etc, but not with Win 8 pc. I had to use "Mixed" mode. You can google this problem.

Pros: Nice size system - not as small as book size systems but much more powerful than those options because it takes i3/i5. Easy to assemble and nice drivers disk which actually works (need to get a proper wifi driver though - go to ECS website). Good level of features, put mine together with a newish Western Digital Scorpio Blue drive I had lying around and a used i3-550 I bought for $70 and I'm good to go. Bought it for media pc/tv use in my home office including converting basic video conversion and it's quick and drives a screen and a tv nicely.

Cons: As others have said seems to be a bit noisy (but that may be my drive - haven't really isolated) and the LEDs on the front are way bright not a huge problem in my office but could be really irritating for some especially when flashing in sleep mode.

Overall Review: May have to buy another of these!

Pros: Flashes easily to DD-WRT and appears stable with it after several weeks (no reboots, consistent speed); Achieves consistent 270mbps speeds with Broadcom N laptop cards when you use 40MHz bandwidth ("channel bonding") in both AP and card settings and "afterburner" in card settings, and no drops so far; Range seems ok, no better than previous Linksys WRT54G And Netgear Rangemax G/superG routers; Does not appear to "throttle" bandwidth noticeably (comparing internet speeds direct from source vs via AP); Does what I want at a good price.

Cons: No Megabit LAN ports, so ethernet is potentially slower than wiFi; Not 5GHz (a) radio, so does not work above 130mbps with Intel N cards (Intel restricts speed in 2.4GHz band); Only got 150mbps with Atheros N card (which may be an Atheros issue like Intel - didn't research); No advantage in range vs older routers so not possible to replace old main router - still need two for my house.

Overall Review: I have experimented with various routers/APs over the years. Have never seen anything give noticeably better performance than old Linksys WRT54G which is solid router/AP and Netgear Rangemax which is ok router/good range but unstable as Access Point only with its own firmware. Wanting N for file quicker transfer/HD video, I read many reviews and the usual raving positive vs damning writeups. Decided to experiment with this as new Access Point as could flash DD-WRT which I think makes sense on anything as manufacturer firmwares are often flaky (note I didn't try the ASUS firmware), and it's cheap. Works great when properly set up with laptops using Broadcom cards but do your homework re other cards... eg Intel cards do NOT give full speed with any routers unless it broadcasts in 5GHz spectrum! Next step is to buy a second router to complete the update of the system but it is a bit of a problem that this only has 100mbps LAN ports - should have found one that has gigaport.