EnGenius ESR9850 300Mbps Wireless N Router/WDS AP/Repeater with Gigabit Switch

by EnGenius

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 6.7 x 4.4 x 1 inches ; 15.2 ounces
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S.
• ASIN: B002TY785A
• Item model number: ESR9850
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (22 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,369 in Electronics (See Top 100 in Electronics)
• Date first available at Amazon.com: December 19, 2005

Product Description

Improve your network connection with this engenius 300 Mbps Wireless N Gigabit Router

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Bang for the Buck, May 10, 2010

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dennis logan (Round Rock, TX, USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: EnGenius ESR9850 300Mbps Wireless N Router/WDS AP/Repeater with Gigabit Switch (Personal Computers)

Pros: Price/Performance. Full Gig Ports.

Cons: Not Wi-Fi Certified?. Personally I didn't care. It'd probably just add to the cost to have a 'stamp of approval' by the organization in my opinion. Single Band? Draft "N"? Neither an issue for me.

Other Thoughts: I'd been wanting a Full Gig Router w/N to replace the Brand X(10/100-b/g) I'd been using. Read a review about it, saying it was blowing away the other 'name' boxes that cost twice the price.

The Management GUI does the job, not over-engineered or too many bells and whistles.

A popular home networking utility(v5.5) only discovers this as a "Router"; you can't rename it. And doesn't see my attached G Wireless Access Point either. But not a showstopper.

Using all brand new CAT 6E cables.

Laptop(Win-7/64) Wireless throughput is outstanding with an Intel 4965AGN card. Desktop(Win-7/64) throughput with an Intel Pro/1000 GT tests as fast as the Service Provider's Network can run, presently @DOCSIS 2.0.

Been running error and hang free since the day I plugged it in.

Highly Recommended.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A great router for the price !, November 14, 2010

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maclaren48 "maclaren48" (Florida) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: EnGenius ESR9850 300Mbps Wireless N Router/WDS AP/Repeater with Gigabit Switch (Personal Computers)

This is definitely the best router I ever owned. That statement must take into considerations that I never owned any of the real expensive top of line routers. And in fact, I don't think I need them, after setting up this EnGenius. I used to have constant problems with previous routers (D-Link, Linksys, Netgear) when running torrent applications. All my previous routers would choke and it was frustrating trying to run any application that needed internet access while downloading torrents. My VOIP phone, connected to one of the LAN ports of my other routers would not have even have a dial tone. For a long time I've being searching for a router that would not cripple all other internet activities when downloading torrents. I read all kind of stuff, like loading routers with alternative firmware or software, all cumbersome and time consuming. Finally, I bumped into a Price vs. Performance chart at the Smallnetbuiler site (used to be held at the Tom's Hardware site) that showed this EnGenius router performing almost at the level of others three to five times more expensive. I had never heard of the EnGenius brand before, but, impressed with the chart and some good reviews, I decided to give it a try. I could not be happier!

The installation was straightforward and from the time I unplugged the cables from my old D-Link until I had the new router running perfectly it did not take more than 10 minutes. It has been working my home network flawless, without a single reboot, for several months, now. I will not spend time here to list the router specifications. You can find them in this site or at the manufacturer's. I will rather tell about what this router is handling: I have three PC's connected to three of the four LAN ports; the fourth port I used to my VOIP phone. I also have a printer wirelessly connected to the router, all working beautifully, even when I am downloading several torrents simultaneously. I notice only a very small degradation in performance under the heaviest traffic. It does not bother at all and does not prevent me from talking on the VOIP phone. Considering the price, this router is a real bargain and must have the engineers at the bigger companies scratching their heads. If you run torrents along with VOIP and also want wireless capabilities, do yourself a favor and buy one of these babies.

8 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Slows down when QoS is enabled, August 9, 2010

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M Larsson (San Jose, CA USA) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: EnGenius ESR9850 300Mbps Wireless N Router/WDS AP/Repeater with Gigabit Switch (Personal Computers)

Very fast router, good feature set and low price. However, if you have a faster internet connection (40Mbps or higher) and intend to use QoS, you need to look somewhere else. If you have been reading reviews claiming that this router has a WAN to LAN throughput of more than 600Mbps, be warned that this is without QoS enabled. With QoS enabled, I'm not able to push more than 38-42Mbps through this router, which unfortunately makes it useless with Comcast Extreme 50 connection (which gives you roughly 62MBps).