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15 of 15 people found the following review helpful: By This review is from: TRENDnet GREENnet 300 Mbps Concurrent Dual Band Wireless N Gigabit Router TEW-673GRU (Black) (Personal Computers) I get suddenlink 10 MB down/sec:1 MB up/sec cable internet service
Speed: With this router I get about 10.1-10.4 MB/sec downspeed and 1.03 upspeed via [...] via BOTH wan and wireless! With the cisco e3000 I would get about 8.5-9.7 MB/sec downspeed and similar upspeeds. Set-Up: The Cisco set-up is pretty idiot proof, but the interface for advanced settings is lacking. With the Trendnet, while not as easy to set-up, it's pretty intuitive if you just follow the instruction booklet. Range: Have yet to carry my laptop outside and really test it out, but I get "excellent" signal on my crappy lenovo x60 with Class G wireless. Wired Printer set-up: Once you install the driver from the included CD printing to my usb-linked-to-router printer was very painless and easy. Cisco e3000 only supports wireless printers (so if you're like me and don't have a state-of-the-art wifi printer you're sol for network printing with the e3000)...Read more 8 of 8 people found the following review helpful: By This review is from: TRENDnet GREENnet 300 Mbps Concurrent Dual Band Wireless N Gigabit Router TEW-673GRU (Black) (Personal Computers) So I decided to upgrade my wireless router to a dual band, I moved into a new condo and everybody had a wireless router and I knew it would be trouble. I checked and nobody was using the 5GHz spectrum so I knew it was the way to go. I initially purchased the Netgear WNDR3700. Objectively, The Netgear is a nice router too but I had to exchange 2 units of the Netgear because of an issue with the wired gigabit ports going to sleep and not waking up. Do a google search for WNDR3700 and Tivo and you'll see complaints about the Netgear. Anyway, so I had to find another dual band router after wasting 2 weeks with the Netgear. I really liked the Netgear much better than the Trendnet because it has a hackable firmware using DD-WRT but hey if the ports go to sleep and won't wake back up, you can't use it. Setup of the Trendnet was very straight forward, nothing out of the ordinary. The best features of the router is the 3 year warranty compared to 1 year for Netgear...Read more 6 of 6 people found the following review helpful: Amazon Verified Purchase(What's this?) This review is from: TRENDnet GREENnet 300 Mbps Concurrent Dual Band Wireless N Gigabit Router TEW-673GRU (Black) (Personal Computers) I received the router a few days ago. Got it all hooked up. The display isn't anything all that fancy and it in fact is more or less useless as the button response is not great and takes a while to get to the info you need, you can just use the web config interface. It looks high tech anyhow. I bought this to get more throughput than my prior D-Link DIR-655, also I think the D-Link was the culprit to frequent disconnects during online gaming. For the time it worked, it did seem to be almost double the speed. The web interface take some getting used to, I had all my devices on my network plugged in but the DHCP table didn't recognize them (though they had connectivity). I prefer to set static ip reservations for my devices, however given they were not showing up in the table, I had to hook only one device up at a time for it to show up with an IP and MAC and then reserve it. Also, though I'm sure it's for good measure... it takes a whopping 2 minutes just for the slightest...Read more |