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265 of 273 people found the following review helpful: By This review is from: Cisco-Linksys WRT610N Simultaneous Dual-N Band Wireless Router (Personal Computers) Pros: Great speed. Wireless is only less than 5% slower than ethernet connection. USB link port is very solid.
Cons: Not designed for people who want plug & play devices with no knowledge of networking. I will agree with a lot of people regarding people that stated that this router is no good. Those people do not know what they're doing. I bought a REFURBISHED version 1... and it works perfect. After reading so many bad reviews, I had the feeling that all refurbished WRT610Ns were probably from people who didn't know how to get it to work properly. ****HOW TO PROPERLY SETUP A WRT610N ROUTER**** 1) Download the latest firmware to your computer from Linksys' website. Do this even before you receive your WRT610N. Reading all the comments about the firmware, I didn't even bother trying the stock firmware. 2) Upon receiving the router, plug in the power cable and plug it into the AC outlet. No CAT5 cables...Read more 295 of 312 people found the following review helpful: By Travis McGough "wtmcgough" (Montgomery, AL USA) - See all my reviews Amazon Verified Purchase(What's this?) This review is from: Cisco-Linksys WRT610N Simultaneous Dual-N Band Wireless Router (Personal Computers) Updated:
As my title states it is a very good router, but only if you need it. The simultaneous feature only means that you can have items connected to the 2.4GHz band or the 5GHz band. However, please note that this does not mean that your laptop can connect to both at the same time. (I know some people who thought that it would.) That being said, what this feature is good for is if you are surfing the web on your laptop and are also streaming some high definition content to your television. That is when this router is beneficial, or if you are sharing the router with other people this can be a good feature allowing you to keep your own band without slowing down your bandwidth. But if you are like most people who will only be using the router to mainly surf the web on your laptop, then this router is not for you. It has too many features and is not worth the price. The only complaints I have about the router are very minimal. Before I upgraded the firmware,...Read more 116 of 122 people found the following review helpful: By This review is from: Cisco-Linksys WRT610N Simultaneous Dual-N Band Wireless Router (Personal Computers) I replaced an existing wired router/wireless access point combination with the WRT610N. The replacement was painless, taking about a half hour, including retyping all of my DHCP reservation and port forwarding information.
The only glitch was that running the Linksys EasyLink Advisor (a tool that among other things, shows you everything connected to your router) reset the router. This is fixed in the latest firmware (level 17, my router shipped with 16). Speeds have been good. I only have one machine that is connected with Draft-N, and it has been able to connect about 4-5 times faster than my Wireless-G connections on the 5Mhz band. My Wireless-G connections have had consistently better quality than through my old WEP54G Access Point. |