Cisco-Linksys WRT600N Linksys Ultra RangePlus Dual-Band Wireless-N Gigabit Router with Storage Link

10 Review to this product

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  F. Smith
  November 12th, 2010 on 1:27 pm

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  I have tried a number of g routers with no success in my house this “n” router did the trick. 40% signal where g would have 0-10%.
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  G. Whitlow
  November 13th, 2010 on 8:57 am

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  I set this up for my father-in-law and the WRT600N worked great once we learned to “unbridge” the DSL modem from AT&T. Once this was accomplished, the rest of the setup went very smoothly. This is the second Linksys wireless router I’ve purchased and I am very pleased with their performance. On this model, I believe they changed the TCIP address of the router to 192.168.1.0 vs the 192.168.1.1 address of my WRT330N router…not a “biggie” but took a little research to locate. I was also able to easily setup his USB backup drive off of the router so it could be used as network storage. He was pleased with this feature and now has an easy place to backup all of his important documents, music, and pictures. All in all it is a great product.
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  Steven Chen
  November 13th, 2010 on 7:21 pm

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  We want a router that covers the whole house, that is fast, and secure since my wife and I both access business information from home. I used to use 2 802.11b AP but still not satisfied and added power-line Ethernet

  for the 6 computers we have. Selected WRT600N based on the reviews for range and 5.8GHz 802.11n.

  I am very happy with the router that offers long range, good bandwidth and security. It is easy to set up after the initial confusion. Tech Support was helpful but could be better.

  The 5.8GHz 802.11a radio is fast and cover the whole house (good size) with at least 2 bars. The 2.4GHz 802.11b/g radio covers the whole house with 5 bars. Both delivers good bandwidth to all 3 floors. On-line gaming is good

  My router came configured so EasyLink Advisor could not find it. I consider this a bug. Tech Support told me to connect the router to PC via wire and go to 192.168.1.1 with a browser, login (user name and password are on page 5 of the user guide) then it is easy from there. Here is a quick guide for wireless.

  Tech Support wanted me to use WEP for security, I had to tell him I want WPA2 twice since WEP is unacceptable. He did warm me about bandwidth drop, but I only have a 3Mbps fiber connection at home so it is not a concern.

  I could not get Tech Support to give me the user manual, it is available here http://www.linksys.com/servlet/Satellite?c=L_CASupport_C2&childpagename=US%2FLayout&cid=1175237935014&pagename=Linksys%2FCommon%2FVisitorWrapper&lid=3501429063B390&displaypage=nodata#versiondetail

  The box came with EasyLink Advisor version 1.0. I was concerned with all the not-so-positive reviews about version 1.0 with WRT3xx. Downloaded version 1.6 but I did not need it.

  Linksys might consider using screen shots with higher resolution for the user guide.

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  H. Lee
  November 13th, 2010 on 11:25 pm

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  I bought my first WRT600N six months ago for my home office. I work in I.T. field from my home and cannot afford to be down or have network performance issues. The setup is very easy and I have no problems running small network with another 8-port gigabyte switch, four computers, three IP telephones, and a networked printer. VPN pass-through works without a hitch to corporate network. It never has failed even when my kids decide to run there networking demanding games on three of these computers. I am so pleased, I have decided to buy another WRT600N for cottage. I can highly recommend this router.
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  cpyao
  November 16th, 2010 on 10:13 pm

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  This router is great assuming you configure it right and use it with the right equipment. I configured the router so that my good laptop is on the 5ghz network (using the Linksys WPC600N wireless adapter) and all other wireless equipment using b,g or 2.4ghz-N connect to the 2.4ghz wireless network. Yes, your wireless computers will be connecting to two different wireless networks but as long as they’re in the same workgroup they can still see each other. Its true, out of the box the 5ghz network is much weaker than the 2.4, but (after reading the manual) I changed the radio band from Auto to the Wide-40mhz channel (for the 5ghz network only, leaving the 2.4ghz wireless setting to auto) I’m now getting a link speed of 135-182mps! That’s what this router is designed for; use one wireless band for high speed N-only and the other band for all of your mixed devices. Again, I’m using this with the wireless adapter that its designed to work with, its definitely worth the money to get the wpc600n for at least one of your laptops that way you can connect to the 5ghz N-band, otherwise your probably better off with the wrt350n.
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  EvilPumpkin
  November 17th, 2010 on 2:00 am

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  I just bought a new Asus laptop with N capabilities and wanted to realize its full capabilities. Did some research and discovered that a lot of people have trouble with the Intel chipset and the earliest N routers as they were only operating at the 2.4GHz. I can’t vouch for those issues but this router certainly delivers the speed. My wife’s old laptop connects at 54MBs, while mine connects at ~270MBs. Signal strength is excellent throughout my house on the 5GHz band. Setup was a breeze. It comes with some software but I never installed it. The menu is pretty straightforward and easy to configure, just going from screen to screen. I haven’t tried the storage link functionality yet but just got that for future possibilities.

  Update: 1/5/08 – As a commenter pointed out, the speed the computer lists is NOT what you are really getting. I downloaded DUMeter to monitor download speeds and never saw anything >5MB/s actual speed. I can’t lower the rating on this item but would definitely lower it to 1-2 stars based on the price…
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  M. Jandreau
  November 17th, 2010 on 7:04 am

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  I upgraded from a D-link di-524 to the Linksys WRT600N, and am 100% glad I did so. I was hesitant due to the issues I had getting all my Tivos, and gaming systems on the D-link router.

  The Linksys router was a breeze to set up, and I had all my PCs, 3 Tivos, PS3, X-box 360, and Wii connected within an hour.

  I purchased a MyBook 1TB, and plugged it into the back USB port, and had it up and running in just a short while. The instructions don’t specify that you have to add users via the web-interface, to allow people to access that hard drive. Once I figured that out, I was golden.

  My 5Ghz network gets 270mbps wirelessly. The 2.4Ghz network gets roughly 130mbps. Still 80mbps faster than G (54mbps). Wired, I get the full gigabit. If only my internet connection was that fast.

  The router performs exactly how I want a router of this price to. My only dissatisfaction thus far is that the software they provide you to configure your PC to connect, isn’t 64-bit compatible. Some warning on the packaging would have been nice. Luckily, I didn’t need it.

  If you’re thinking about making the jump to N, this is the router for anyone who’s serious about speed, and ease of use. I’ll honestly never buy another wireless product from anyone other than Linksys. Goodbye D-link.
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  TS
  November 17th, 2010 on 6:44 pm

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  So far so good configured this router to be an access point rather than a true rounter on my home network. I have a 500GB drive attached to the USB port and works as well as can be expected for a USB device. Had no problems getting the disk sharing configured. I upgraded my Dell LAtitude D820 wiht an Intel 4965AGN internal adapter. The driver installed by default uner Vista was so so and the same version available at the Dell site but found an updated driver on Intel’s site that improved the connection speed. I didn’t attempt to utilize the linksys software to configure this device I just logged into the web interface and first set some basic security settings then did a littlw tweaking. So far everty thing is working great. I may tweak a few setting to see what if any changes I might see in performance. I purchased this for the dual band N support and the support for a networked shared disk access. I had a Belkin networked USB Hub but you couldn’t connect to the disk from more than one remote system at a time. The access speed to the USB drive flies connected to the router in contrast to the crawling it did on the Belkin USB Hub. I also like the facxt that it utilized the standard SMB drive mapping built into the client OS to connect to the disk and doesn’t require any special drivers, overhead. I am a systems administrator have worked with many routers and servers so barely took a quick glance at the manual to verify a couple of things. This was my first N setup and first dual band. While I wish the price was a bit lower considering it allows 24×7 secue access to my networked (USB) HD that can be attached to any of the systems on my home network it was not that big of an investment. If you have some netowking background and perhaps a little Windows Server and or SAMBA server background this is a very simple device to get up and running.
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  D. Burk
  November 18th, 2010 on 4:26 pm

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  I’ve had this router for about a month now. It replaced a low cost G Router that constantly lost connection with our DSL Modem. So far, the WRT600N has been rock-solid, never losing its connection to the modem. Even though we haven’t invested in the N network cards for our laptops, we’re getting great connections throughout our 3700 Sq Ft house. It’s not cheap, but so far, it’s worth every penny.
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  D. Tucker
  November 18th, 2010 on 7:47 pm

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  I could not wait to install the Linksys WRT600n. Fortunately, I have a friend in my company IT department who helped me install this unit and my home network. This made things very easy. Once the unit was installed I noticed immediately that internet speeds increased tremedously, not only over my wifi network but on the hard wired network as well. I was using an older g wifi router from D-Link. The dual band work as described and the network security was very easy to set up. My laptop and other wifi applications noticed the network quickly and was very easy to setup.

  The only draw back was that the software that came with the Linksys kept telling me that it did not recognize the unit and asked that it be turned on. The thing is that it was turned on and working. Other than that I am enjoying gaming online, and have found that I can be a good distance from the unit and still am receiving signal. I would highly recommend.