Linksys WRT1900AC Available For Preorder

[psychopomp1]

Working in networking for the last 25 years I come to the conclusion that Belkin makes junk routers and it has been proven many times. Now they acquired the task of making an AC router. All we can do is hope for the best and prove me wrong.

I bought a Netgear R7000 last year...great router but badly let down by fw as router rebooted every few days. Replaced with Linksys EA6900 and it works flawlessly...as good as the R7000 (if not better).

 

[claykin]

I bought a Netgear R7000 last year...great router but badly let down by fw as router rebooted every few days. Replaced with Linksys EA6900 and it works flawlessly...as good as the R7000 (if not better).

I have the R7000, using it as an AP only, and can say its the most reliable consumer AP I've ever owned (and I've owned several top models over the last years). Only time its ever been rebooted is when performing a firmware upgrade. I've yet to have a lockup, speed degradation, etc. requiring a reboot.
Plus I recently began recommending this to end users and have yet to have a complaint (they use in router mode).

Maybe its because I wasn't an early adopter? I generally won't touch a wireless product until I read enough positive feedback on it.

So, it seems everyone will have different experiences.

 

[speedingcheetah]

Posted this as part of a another thread....but I will paste it here as it is relevant.


I am very curious about Belkin/Linksys "re-launch" of the WRT series.
(I loved the old "blue boxes" that were the Linksys WRT series. I see those things at thrift stores all the time now. Those old B/G routers always had excellent range and still every one I have fired up just for kicks works perfectly.)

I love tinkering with the newest stuff and certainly want to see what the community will think of these new batch of WRT's and see if they are deserving of the historic model title. Plus, it is always good to be ready for the future.

 

[looklikefrost]

I like the old Linksys product.

 

[jalyst]

CSB^

10char

 

[Razor512]

Has anyone tried overclocking the router yet? it would be cool to see how far it can be overclocked.

It would be cool to see just how much performance someone can get out of it in order to improve storage performance, and probably have it do other stuff,e.g., multi user VPN server.

 

[jalyst]

Has anyone tried overclocking the router yet? it would be cool to see how far it can be overclocked.

It would be cool to see just how much performance someone can get out of it in order to improve storage performance, and probably have it do other stuff,e.g., multi user VPN server.

Main thread is now here:
http://forums.smallnetbuilder.com/showthread.php?t=16736