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HomeNetworking DevicesCisco-Linksys WRT310N Wireless-N Gigabit Router |
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80 of 82 found the following review helpful:
 Heat issues addressed Aug 12, 2008
By Thomas C. Carter
I might be a day late and a dollar short but as long as you stand the product up on it's side, there is no heat issue. If you either wall mount or mimic a wall mount by standing it on the side with the ports facing up you won't have a heat issue at all. If you lay it flat, you will have heat issues. I tried it standing up with the ports face down but it got hot. The vents for the heat to escape are on the side with the ports so if you face that side up then there is no heat issues.
48 of 49 found the following review helpful:
 Great when it works Jul 16, 2008
By Brian
Configuration was easy, features are great, range was good... until the device started gettng hot (or whatever) and started dropping connections and slowing down and had to be manually rebooted. Sometimes these "hang ups" would completely stop traffic even on the switched gig ethernet ports. After about 10 reboots in 20 days I decided it wasn't fun anymore and I'm trying something else.
65 of 71 found the following review helpful:
Great router, so far Feb 28, 2008
By T. Miller
"Miller"
Found my NetGear router dead (unsurprising after reading forums and reviews of the model I had), so I replaced it with this one. It was very easy to setup and it supports WMM (wireless multimedia) and QoS which was important to me since I have the T-Mobile Blackberry Curve that can do calls over WiFi. I did not install any software and had no problem getting this thing to work with my Macs and PCs -- however, I have had several LinkSys routers in the past, which made knowing how to set this up without installing software pretty easy.
Beware, what another reviewer said about this router not being a "true N specification". It is fully compliant with the latest draft standards. It uses MIMO technology (40MHz wide bandwidth), and operates in both the 2.4GHz and 5.2GHz spectrums. And it is true gigabit ethernet for wired devices (the spec sheet does state gigabit, several times actually. I checked the sheet, and I'm getting gigabit throughput between my two wired machines plugged into the router. It's also important to realize that gigabit is way faster than even the fastest DSL or cable modem, so that measure of speed is only relevant when communicating between 2 computers that are both plugged into this router via an Ethernet cable.) Buying this won't get you a faster connection to the internet.
UPDATE: This route is STILL working great for me. I've had it for 18 months now and not one hiccup. Most Linksys routers I've bought in the past would have died by now (for no apparent reason), but this one is still going strong. Works great with my MacBook, iPhone, and PCs.
19 of 19 found the following review helpful:
 Good speed "if" it works !!@!! Dec 14, 2008
By A. Rajagopalan
"Calvin"
Used this router for about 2 weeks before I returned it - the setup was easy and feature set / speeds are good - but wireless connectivity becomes intermittent after a few days of operation - then the wireless radio shuts down. Also to make matters worse the administrative web page errors out when the router reaches this state - only way out is to do a hard reset and setup everything again - but the pattern repeats...
Linksys support confirms they have had such issues with the router. YMMV. Try at your own risk.
21 of 23 found the following review helpful:
 Clarification of info about this router Mar 05, 2008
By SAM
Noticed a couple of errors in other reviewer's comments.
1) This IS a gigabit router. That doesn't affect the wireLESS capabilities at all however. It only comes into play for communication between WIRED computers plugged into this router.
2) This router is NOT dual-frequency. It is 2.4GHz only. One reviewer had that wrong. Dual-frequency router examples include Linksys wrt600n, Dlink dir-855, and netgear wndr3300.
In MY opinion, the router that is most similar to this router is the Dlink dir-655, thus the very similar price.
Good luck.
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