SlashGear Japan
Oh, all this WiFi N business makes me chuckle, they don’t even have a set standard, its still in draft stages, and they have been selling the hardware for like a year or something like that, so dumb. Anyways, Linksys is bringing you the latest from Draft 2.0.
It uses a Broadcom chipset for dual-band 802.11n goodness and even had gigabit Ethernet ports. You can even hook up an external USB drive and make it into and NAS as well.
In the end it performs pretty well, basically it will get the job done, and if it has enough ROM/RAM a newly featured version of DD-WRT will probably make this thing like a wireless god-router, but even then, this thing costs $250 freakin dollars! So, save yourself some money, stick with 802.11g until they actually finish the N spec, and get yourself a WRT54GL, some high-gain antennas, and put DD-WRT on it and you should be good to go.
Linksys WRT600N Review: Dual-Band 11n comes to Linky-land [via smallnetbuilder]
3 Responses to “Linksys WRT600N”
EchoBinary January 15, 2008
i would normally agree about waiting. but the N spec has higher bandwidth. Which is good for pushing more data. Use case would be playing a DVD .ISO stored on a NAS over the network (wireless) on a modded XBox (XBMC).
802.11g simply does not have the bandwidth required.
+1x3nse February 5, 2008
It’s the only router I know of at the moment which is dual band which allows you to use the 5ghz band for media streaming to something like the Linksys DMA 2200 Media box and the 2.4 ghz for your daily internet surfing and downloads.
+2SnoFox4 May 3, 2008
I actually just setup one of these in my home. I also have a N wireless adapter from Linksys too. The USB data drive on the router doesn’t work well, actually it doesn’t work at all. The speeds are GREAT! I usually have speeds of 216-270MBps and I’m pretty far away from the router. (Routers on 1st floor I’m on 2nd). It’s speeds are enough to make up for the price alone, when hardwired through Comcast I receive no data loss and have speeds of 20-35MBps. When through wireless using Speakeasy I have speeds of 18-22MBps.
One thing I have noticed is that under heavy usage the MBps go down, sometimes as far as 160MBps but that’s pretty rare.
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