eCost.com has the refurbished Linksys Ultra RangePlus Wireless-N Broadband Router (WRT160N) for $40 + $10 shipping = $50 shipped. Features MIMO technology, backwards compatibility with G and B networks, SPI firewall. [Compare]
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#1
Shinare - Posted 11:20 am PDT 04/14/09 (156 Posts)
I bought one of these from the circuit city "blow-out" joke-tastick sale for $70 and I HATE IT. Range on it sucks ass. I cant even get a good wireless-g signal on it when I am right below it on the floor underneath where it is.
Just about the best wireless G signal can only be had in the same room with it. What a POS. They should have at least put some way of attaching an external antenna to it. Maybe that's too much to ask from a FRIGGIN' RADIO DEVICE....
Having purchased it from CC sale I could not return it. $70 lesson learned, and last linksys router I ever buy.
PS> If you get a WRT160N version 2 just box it right back up and send it back to wherever you got it. Then purchase some other brand. You can't even put DD-WRT on it because it uses a completely diferent chipset in it. Mine's a version 2. *sigh*
Just about the best wireless G signal can only be had in the same room with it. What a POS. They should have at least put some way of attaching an external antenna to it. Maybe that's too much to ask from a FRIGGIN' RADIO DEVICE....
Having purchased it from CC sale I could not return it. $70 lesson learned, and last linksys router I ever buy.
PS> If you get a WRT160N version 2 just box it right back up and send it back to wherever you got it. Then purchase some other brand. You can't even put DD-WRT on it because it uses a completely diferent chipset in it. Mine's a version 2. *sigh*
#2
rab05 - Posted 12:35 pm PDT 04/14/09 (97 Posts)
Yah, these routers are pretty bad. One of the worst out there for the money.
Linksys' new design (call it a UFO/Hockey Puck) has to be one of the worst decisions I've ever seen a company make. they went away from external (sometimes removable) antennas to putting all antennas internal and in the horizontal plane. The result is just a bad set of routers that gets out performed by all of the competition.
#3
rotorrocket - Posted 12:36 pm PDT 04/14/09 (425 Posts)
thanks for the heads up. I'll pass. Does any N router work well? They all seem to suck in the $50 range.
#4
rab05 - Posted 1:51 pm PDT 04/14/09 (97 Posts)
D-Link is making excellent routers right now the DIR-615 is a good basic N router, but if you can find the DIR-655 for around $79, that's a killer deal. The 655 is one of the best routers I've seen in a long time.
#5
frankl45 - Posted 7:21 pm PDT 04/14/09 (659 Posts)
I have both the Dir-655 and just picked up a DIR-615 for $35
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