This router is a high quality product. i got it for $24.99 after a $20 rebate(hasn't sent the mail-in yet). but even for full price. its worth it. i get excellent signal over 2-3 walls and 25 ft. which is really good. its a good solid unit. and reboots really quick! good DOWN/UP speeds.make sure you turn off the Wi-Fi while setting it up. and use the default password first. then change it from the firmware.(DON'T INSTALL DD-WRT on this router. gives you wireless G as default with 54 MBPS. and less range with less signal on 20 MHZ channel instead of 40 MHZ on the OEM firmware) and you will get connection problems when you install DD-WRT.
Whats good about it!
1- Range.(you would probably get a good signal over 50 FT away. maybe more)
2- Speed.(Faster than D-LINK routers I've used before this one and very consistent)
3- Fast Reboot.(takes about 30 seconds which is really fast)
4- Solid unit with many LEDS(LED indicator for about anything)
5- Easy to use QOS(Bandwidth limiting is easier to use than the usual 100 options you get in regular routers)
6- Adjustable antennas(Can set up the antennas to get the best range/quality possible)
Whats not good about it!
1- Per device monitoring(Does not show devices connected and monitor them just a brief monitoring )
2- The first time you set it up its pain in the a**(Don't click any of the options that pop up and don't put a name for the network from Windows/Mac or network location when you connect the Ethernet for the first time to set it up. Use the CD to set it up and ignore the other options that the computer Pop-up for you)
Overall, this is a high quality product that worth every penny you spent on it. if you have a small home to a medium-size home and have laptops mostly i recommend this router over all other routers in this price range!
UPDATE: 3/29/13
been using it for about 2 weeks now and its perfect. no problems at all after setting it up. and i just hooked up a Portable HDD on it and its working like a network drive. just perfect. though need to set up the drive to add it to MY COMPUTER, you need to go to my computer then click MAP NETWORK DRIVE then type file://192.168.1.1/ in the folder box. then click Browse then click on the check box on the file://192.168.1.1/ thats shows in the browser and select the main file for the HDD. and you are all set. you will find it at MY COMPUTER.
UPDATE
So I've had this router for about 18 months. and now it is starting to fail. it works. but it keeps disconnecting my computers when i use the wifi. i have the old version. v1.0 . this is v2.0 so it might be different.
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An excellent router with one minor flaw
I love this router. In fact, I own three of them. However, there seems to be a major flaw in all versions prior to v1.10. The earlier versions have a tendency to drop off-line and then come back on-line. This appears to have been fixed in v1.10. At first I thought re-flashing them with DD-WRT had fixed it, but then after awhile they continued dropping off-line. I don't know if it's because someone was trying to hack into my networks, or there was some other interference that was knocking them off-line. Anyway, I'm going to re-flash them back to the OEM firmware and then contact Amazon to RMA them.For anybody who wants to experiment with WLAN, I highly recommend this router. First of all, it is compatible with DD-WRT, a Open-Source community firmware that turns this $50 router into a $600 router's worth of functionality (including operating it in "client" mode, so that I can access the landlord's Access Point to obtain free Internet service). Also, the TL-WR1043ND is extremely "hackable," both in terms of its software and for making hardware mods. In fact, once I can exchange two of my routers for the latest version, one of those routers I will then mod to replace the RP-SMA antenna connectors with "N"-style. My goal is to hook up some 15dBi outdoor antennas to the modded WR1043 using Andrew LDF4-50A 1/2-inch Heliax cable. My current pigtails lose 50% of the signal before it reaches the antennas. (See my review here: TP-LINK Outdoor Omni-directional Antenna (TL-ANT2415D) ). The LDF4-50A allows a greater cable length with significantly less signal loss.For security reasons, I'm going to run all three TL-WR1043NDs through a Linux box (a used Dell Dimension 2400 running Fedora 17) running an excellent IPSec package called "StrongSWAN". The idea is to block all traffic coming from the router until the client has authenticated itself to StrongSWAN and created a VPN in the process. What this achieves is: a) Some script-kiddie cannot hack into my outdoor WLAN to poach my Internet access, because even if s/he gains access to the router, they still have to get through the Linux box (and good luck with that!). Secondly, the Linux box will also be running (among other things) the Apache web daemon, operating as a proxy server. Therefore, b) all web-surfing, email, whatever, from my Droid Razr Maxx goes through an encrypted tunnel to the Linux box's web proxy, so even if someone is sitting in range with packet-sniffer recording my traffic, they're going to have to break the VPN's encryption before they can figure out what articles I'm reading from the Drudge Report. NOTHING gets exposed to the outside!
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