Trendnet Wireless N-Draft Router

Summary: I needed to replace my linksys wrt54g... the thing has almost no range-just across the room, it was maxing out at 4 bars out of 10 on the signal, but ...

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Summary: I needed to replace my linksys wrt54g... the thing has almost no range-just across the room, it was maxing out at 4 bars out of 10 on the signal, but its more typical strength was 2-3. I researched about every router out there, from netgear's rangemax to Buffalo's airlinks to the more expensive Belkin Pre-N... once I got it narrowed down, price became the selling point, since once a rebate that was then at J&R (who got it to me in 2 days and emailed all the forms to me, too, to make sure I knew to send in the rebates if I wanted to!) went through, it was fifty bucks-the retailer rebates shift between one store and the next with trendnet-buy and newegg get them, too, so it is really just a matter of seeing who gets the superior $30 rebate for the month. Anyway, the range and signal on this is fantastic... I've had it set up for about 2.5 weeks and haven't lost a signal ONCE. That, for wireless in my pipe-laden, wood and plaster walled house, is incredible. I still use my linksys wmp54g card with it, but I'm planning on eventually getting the trendnet wireless card just to make the speeds scream. My bandwidth speed is, with this router, already twice what it was on the linksys wrt54g, and again, that's just using the G, not yet the N. The only difference for my setup is the router-all else is identical. The other computers also get a stellar signal through many walls, almost always at least very good, usually excellent. The unit is also cool (temperaturewise; routers aren't "cool" to me in other regards, LED lights or not), and the software is absolutely great-super simple to setup, tons of features available at the click of a mouse button, and good security options. Once I got it set up with all my needs (I limited it to G only, for example, since you can tell it b/g/n or any combination of them), it rebooted the router from the page I was on and there we were, full broadband speeds coming from our wireless connection, finally! I have no reservations recommending this product!

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Summary: I don't really know where to begin on this router. I thought it was a steal for 89 bucks on newegg. Now I why. The range is laughable. I ...

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Summary: I don't really know where to begin on this router. I thought it was a steal for 89 bucks on newegg. Now I why. The range is laughable. I purchased this to replace my aging Linksys WRT54G router that I have had for over 2 yrs. After replacing the linksys and going through trendnets setup (which was hell) I finally got the router working and thought great now i have draft-N spec speeds and range to get full signal every room in my house. WRONG!! I have a bed room that is at most 100ft from the router and not so much as one signal bar from. The Linksys would give me full signal. Add to it the random shut downs and reboots the Trendnet router would do makes this the worst I have ever used.

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Summary: I replaced my old Dlink DI-524 with this draft-n router by trendnet, and I must say, I'm pretty satisfied. I used it at my home, 5 computers connected, 3 ...

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Summary: I replaced my old Dlink DI-524 with this draft-n router by trendnet, and I must say, I'm pretty satisfied. I used it at my home, 5 computers connected, 3 wirelessly, and 2 other wireless appliances (xbox 360 and a pair of wireless 802.11g cams)
I'm not the average user, i usually push my hardware to its limits. I have a dedicated machine for bittorrent, a Linux home server, my backups are all done to a centralized file server, and its all working flawlessly. Also, i constantly stream media content to xbox360 and my media center PC on my home theather, even HD content. I can get good speeds even with 3 big walls in front of it, and a fair distance. It's a workhorse, for sure. I went poking with the firewall and other stuff, but I didnt went far. Seems nice. Two things didnt worked out of the box: install CD, which depends on a working internet connection (and i use this router to authenticate to my dsl router by pppoe, so its impossible to get internet without first configuring the wireless router... stupid logic from trendnet, i must say). Also, firmware I downloaded from trendnet website didnt worked. I sent an email to their support and surprisingly, i got a response after 6 hours. And if didnt solved my problem, at least it isnt a machine generated answer. They told me my router hardware is V2.0 and the firmware in their website is for V1.0 only. I assume my firmware is the latest, from what I see, its only 2 months old. As a drawback, at least for those with Apples and other fancy hardware, this router is UGLY. But it works, I can work from every corner of my house with good connectivity, and its fast enough to perform wireless backups and HD content streaming. Its running for days now without a single 'random' reboot, like netgears and other troublesome hardware i owned previously.

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Summary: If you live in Canada and your WAN is Sympatico DSL, please don't buy. I learn this from experience. I recently brought one of these N router for small ...

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Summary: If you live in Canada and your WAN is Sympatico DSL, please don't buy. I learn this from experience. I recently brought one of these N router for small home network. Although configured correctly with the help of Trendnet custormer support, connection dropouts was untenable and distasteful to say the least. The router behaved erractically and lost connection randomly. Custormer support even told me that I wasn't the only one having this problem. There router was having major problem with the Sympatico WAN.

To make matters worst, BestBuy where I purchased the router wouldn't refund me my money when I returned the piece of garbage to them. They wanted to give me Store Credit which I refused. I just gave up both the money and the router to shameful BestBuy. This says a lot about the product and the store when a custormer rather lost his money instead of accepting Store Credit for a product he didn't want anymore. As the saying goes: "you get what you pay for".

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Summary: In my experience of owning several routers now (Linksys, US Robotics), the software (firmware) that goes with the hardware is of equal importance. For instance, I had to run my ...

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Summary: In my experience of owning several routers now (Linksys, US Robotics), the software (firmware) that goes with the hardware is of equal importance. For instance, I had to run my previous US Robotics 8054 router with a DLink firmware (they have the same exact hardware and chipsets inside, just branded differently) only to achieve some level of stability with that product. The engineers behind this product seem to have done an excellent job with their (at least the latest 1.0.3.5) firmware coding, because even within extremely RF noisy silicon valley apartment I live in, the Wifi performance and stability (both in G and N modes) is nearly flawless. No drops or reboots for over 2 months of use. Given what it sells for, the cost/benefit ratio is excellent.

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Summary: After buying an Asus WL-500W N-Draft who was a nightmare to setup and then getting tired of the connection dropping for no reason and the unability to login .... i spent ...

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Summary: After buying an Asus WL-500W N-Draft who was a nightmare to setup and then getting tired of the connection dropping for no reason and the unability to login .... i spent another $100 to get this TrendNet TEW-631BRP.

Well what a difference -- less then 2 minutes it took to setup - and it's been working with no dropping for last 2 months. This is an often forgotten manufacturer and it deserves credit for making a product renown for its reliability and ease of use !

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Summary: I chose this router because of the cnet review and the price. With the 30.00 rebate it was a lot cheaper than the other wireless n routers. I bought ...

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Summary: I chose this router because of the cnet review and the price. With the 30.00 rebate it was a lot cheaper than the other wireless n routers. I bought this one to replace my Dlink 624, which had to be reset everyday and alway at an unconvenient time. It was easy to set up, found my modem right away. The security features were also easy to set up. So far it has worked flawlessly. Unlike my Dlink. I have not upgraded my notebook nic, it is stll running on wireless G. But I have still seen an improvement on the speed. Not so much on the range. It does not feel as durable as I would like, other than that, it is great.

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