PROS: looks fantastic, worked great to begin with, much faster then centurylink actiontec router.
CONS: started dropping connections wired or wireless, stopped connecting external hard drive over the share ports.
I originally purchased this to replace the actiontec router I currently lease from centurylink. I was hoping to increase my wireless/wired speeds as well as add an external hard drive to the network for file sharing and media streaming. A secondary plus would be the fact that I could return the actiontec and no longer have to pay a monthly lease for having it.
First thing I found after getting this is that my centurylink internet connection is not ADSL,(which I was told it was when I first called to ask centurylink) but it was actually VDSL. So because VDSL offers much better speeds, this would make the ADSL router incompatible with my internet. With it also supporting the WAN I decided to give it a try, so I used it in wireless router mode, instead of the modem mode. Let me tell you it worked great, I was able to get twice the speeds I was getting, wired or wireless, from the actiontec. Plus having the hard drive over the network was fantastic.
After only about 2 days though I started having problems. If I would put any strain on the router other then just simple internet browsing I would loss connection. So anytime I tried to play a game, or transfer large files, I would be tossed from the network. At first I was wanting to blame it on my wireless network card of my laptop, so I starting using Ethernet, because I sit literally 2 feet away from the router so it wasn't that much of a problem. It did seem to take care of the problem, but only for a time. First time I tried to transfer some larger then normal files to my hard drive(26gb) I lost my Ethernet connection. The difference now is even after resetting the router, rebooting the laptop, and everything else, it now will not connect my hard drive. So unfortunately I will be returning this router.
| Wireless Type | 802.11a/b/g/n |
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