NEW Cable/DSL Broadband Router & 8-Ports 10/100 100Mbps Switch

Comment: I ordered this router thinking you get what you pay for. I used to have a lynksys wireless 4 port router wrt54-gl. With that router the max throughput on internet speed test was 7Mbps. With this router I get 10Mbps. I have 8 computers plugged into this router and 2 of them use 4 ports . The 4 ports used are for my at home job.This router is performing well beyond expectations. I would not hesitate to recommended this router to anyone that needs 8 ports. As a matter of fact I have ordered a spare in case it fails because of my job. I think that the person that said they took 2 hours setting it up probably didn't know that much about networking. I installed mine without making any changes and it worked perfect right out of the box. I do have roadrunner cable service. Maybe using DSL makes it more difficult to set up.

Comment: Having read many mixed reviews on TP-Link products, I was wary to try one of their products but couldn't resist the price. I installed my new TP-Link as the backbone and DHCP server for my home network, with high-speed internet provided by Time Warner cable. I turned off DHCP on my old Linksys wireless router and connected it to the TP-Link with a crossover cable. I then hooked up my HP gigabit switch, which connects my A/V equipment (including a dedicated media center PC, a Roku and a blu-ray player), to the TP-Link. After a "reboot" of everything, my network was working as intended. We can now log onto our home network with Nintendo DS's using WEP security. I found the admin interface organized and easy to navigate, including helpful explainations on the right side of the screen...even better than the Linksys screen. Previous IP conflicts or drop-outs have not occured since installation.

Comment: This product was not easy to get to connect with my ATT/SBC DSL modem then to PC. Needed to change the IP constantly until it would recognize it. They do not need to insert the instruction as they are useless! Took me almost 2 hours and 3 phone calls before I got it working properly.

Add my other one to a cable router and it recognized it with little effort.

Both are working and I've not had any other problems, but it is not user friendly to setup!

Comment: The Quick Installation Guide instructions failed to connect my PC to the internet through my AT&T DSL service, though I could connect directly through the DSL modem. The User Guide PDF file (which TP-LINK prohibits its customers from printing) is incomprehensible. The customer support is perpetually busy.

Boycott TP-LINK.