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NewEgg.com has the D-Link Wireless N Router DIR-615 on sale for $40 with free shipping. It supports a draft 802.11n standard, which may become obsolete if it isn't compatible with the eventual approved standard. A flash upgrade might alleviate that problem.
x4 10/100 ports, so no gigabit for those that are wondering. however, it does have WPA2 encryption.
I've been thoroughly dissatisfied with all midrange D-Link products that I've tried.
The DIR-655 is a nice piece of equipment. These midrange routers just tend to suck, though.
My $0.02.
If you're looking to try wireless N in a small apartment, this is the router to get. Otherwise, you're better of spending $ on a router with a better range.
I've been reading the same description for 1+ year now..
"It supports a draft 802.11n standard, which may become obsolete if it isn't compatible with the eventual approved standard. A flash upgrade might alleviate that problem."
Who cares about N, draft or otherwise? I picked it up to get a cheaper G router than anyone else (with a decent product) offered, for my apartment. If I eventually get to use it at the N speed, that'll be great too, but I currently have everything set up for G. K??
From what I have seen Draft N is 99% solid and any potential changes can be handled with a firmware update so is not a hardware issue. There is some conflict in the group so it may never get officially ratified.
I have this router. it works well for home laptop users and hardwired networking of a couple office machines. If you are just a office email, internet user, this works fine.
However, if you are a media server or streaming video or VoIP user, then i would suggest looking for a router designed to prioritize QoS (Quality of Service), cause it reserves and prioritizes bandwidth and processes data packets traffic to give them a smooth user experience. I bought the new Linksys 610 Dual N. It handles two Vista Media Center Extenders, a Media Center PC and Microsoft Homeserver all streaming video on both the N wireless channels and the 1Gbit wired ports very well.
I posted my comments on this router before. I am one of the unhappy one with this unit: it gave me no end of trouble, as it would go down unexpectedly every 2 weeks or so. Before the year was out, it died. Actually I had used an earlier dlink router before as well, and it was also very troublesome. I really cannot recommend anyone buying this.
i totally agree with Etchen. However i was under impression my intermittent router connection failures were cause i was trying to push too many QoS type packets around my house with various media center video streams. So Etchen may be correct here.