Post-Baby Edit 10/19/2014:
If you wonder why post-baby edit? Well, it was driving me crazy that for the past 2 weeks the thing has been acting erratically. One thing in common: new baby in the house (= internet connection bad...?). What da... it was driving me crazy as we are now home and watching a TON of Netflix, that is, trying to watch (with the connection dropping often, not watching a whole lot...) Mind you, signal strength was still good, just no traffic!
Works fine by the unit itself, but move away 6 ft, in the same room - speed drops dead! I've even called our ISP (Cable, rimes with Mine Bronner), trying to rip them a new one... needless to it was our issue all along and I'm a douche. (Mine Bronner has become much better than I remember them from 6-7 years ago, mind you - even came and installed all new cables from the street, to my house and in the house too!)
So what was it? Interference with our new video-baby-monitor... it took me a few hours to figure it out today. Darn! So people, if you have issues with connectivity, check your other wireless stuff, esp. these new gen baby monitors, wireless security cameras, etc...
Go figure!
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I was looking to update from my tried and true Linksys WRT54 which started to be glitchy (frequent resets needed), and I wanted to get new equipment as I was moving our ISP from our phone company to the cable provider. This one was inexpensive, other reviews were good and it seemed a nice update from Linksys WRT54.
I'm not a 'nerd' to tell you specs and this and that about this router. It was simple to set-up, rename the network and secure it. One thing different was the router admin login url. Usually it's 192.168.1.1, this one is 192.168.0.1.
From there on, it's been working fine for a week now, without having to be reset. It hasn't been kicking-off various devices as was the case with the Linksys WRT54 and overall works fine.
Only issue is the signal strength - it does not really affect what we are doing, but the signal does seem to be a bit weaker than the old router. However, signal is still good and does not affect the speed in our wifi connected devices.
Overall, I'm very happy with this purchase, and if you get it, you will be too.
| Wireless Type | 802.11bgn |
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