jdabbs
Super Moderator
Linksys had several new products receive Wi-Fi certification earlier this week:
E1000 Wireless-N Broadband Router (single band, two-stream)
E2000 Dual-Band Wireless-N Gigabit Router (single radio, two-stream)
E2100L Wireless-N Broadband Router with Storage Link (single band, no gigabit?)
E3000 Simultaneous Dual-Band Wireless-N Gigabit Router (dual-radio, two stream)
M10 Wireless-N Broadband Router (single band, two-stream) Not sure what this one is, maybe a travel router or cheap 11g replacement.
Comments/Speculation:
Apparently Linksys has discarded the WRT naming convention for 11n. A clear and concise scheme can only help consumers, though it looks like they're already mucking it up by positioning the single band E2100L as a 2XXX product. Oh well.
The transition appears to be:
WRT1XXN-->E1000
WRT160NL-->E2100L
WRT320N-->E2000
WRT400N-->E3000? (gains gigabit)
WRT610N-->?
I never liked how Linksys differentiated their mid-range high-end products; you could either get gigabit but single radio dual-band with the 320N, or concurrent dual-band but 10/100 with the 400N. I guess this was done to stop either one from cannibalizing the 610N's sales, but it really encouraged people to buy a DIR-825 instead. Since the E3000 has gigabit and dual radios, this means either 1) the E3000 is the new high-end product, or 2) the high-end hasn't been revealed. I think it's the latter option; maybe they'll use Storage Link-functionality as the differentiator (they deemed it highly enough to release a model featuring it, and paired it with low mid-range hardware to not be a threat). There's also three-stream operation, but Linksys may wait until Broadcom can provide a solution before they implement it.
E1000 Wireless-N Broadband Router (single band, two-stream)
E2000 Dual-Band Wireless-N Gigabit Router (single radio, two-stream)
E2100L Wireless-N Broadband Router with Storage Link (single band, no gigabit?)
E3000 Simultaneous Dual-Band Wireless-N Gigabit Router (dual-radio, two stream)
M10 Wireless-N Broadband Router (single band, two-stream) Not sure what this one is, maybe a travel router or cheap 11g replacement.
Comments/Speculation:
Apparently Linksys has discarded the WRT naming convention for 11n. A clear and concise scheme can only help consumers, though it looks like they're already mucking it up by positioning the single band E2100L as a 2XXX product. Oh well.
The transition appears to be:
WRT1XXN-->E1000
WRT160NL-->E2100L
WRT320N-->E2000
WRT400N-->E3000? (gains gigabit)
WRT610N-->?
I never liked how Linksys differentiated their mid-range high-end products; you could either get gigabit but single radio dual-band with the 320N, or concurrent dual-band but 10/100 with the 400N. I guess this was done to stop either one from cannibalizing the 610N's sales, but it really encouraged people to buy a DIR-825 instead. Since the E3000 has gigabit and dual radios, this means either 1) the E3000 is the new high-end product, or 2) the high-end hasn't been revealed. I think it's the latter option; maybe they'll use Storage Link-functionality as the differentiator (they deemed it highly enough to release a model featuring it, and paired it with low mid-range hardware to not be a threat). There's also three-stream operation, but Linksys may wait until Broadcom can provide a solution before they implement it.