TP-LINK TL-WR1043ND Ultimate Wireless N Gigabit Router

10 Review to this product

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  Wilfredo M. Viray
  October 31st, 2010 on 4:35 pm

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  I bought this wireless router because of the features and the reviews. It is a good thing I did. This is an excellent router.

  Pros:
  
  Ease of Setup – I got this working in less than 10 minutes. Just turn off your Cable modem and computer. Connect the router to the modem using the included cable. Power up everything. Then put in the CD and in a few minutes you are done. That includes setting up the WPA2 security.

  Range – My previous Wireless Routers(Apple,Linksys,Zyxel) could only give me at most 61% from one end of my house to the other. This gives me 85%. That is going through 3 Bedrooms and furniture.

  Speed – I used to get 12 Mbps with my previous router. I just tested it now and I now have 19.89 Mbps download speed from the same site I always test with.

  Price – Excellent value for money.

  Network USB Hardrive – You can easily share a USB hard drive. You now have no limit to how much videos you can download and games you can play. Share the drive with your entire family.

  Cons:

  Not Dual Band – It isn’t dual band, but i don’t need it so it does not bother me.

  Summary:
  
  This is a real find. Never heard of this company before, but I am very impressed with this product.
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  Leonard P. Guler
  November 1st, 2010 on 10:20 am

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  Router works great, setup was easy. Got significant improvement in transfer speed within my local network on the order of 5x. Great product.
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  Raymond Perry
  November 2nd, 2010 on 11:18 pm

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  I can’t comment on speeds and many technical aspects of how well this router works. What I can say is that setup with the included setup wizard is a BREEZE! I was a little hesitant because although I have been using PC’s since the first IBM PC came out in the early 80s and I consider myself very knowledgable, much about networking still remains a mystery to me. I can get things set up eventually, but nothing ever seems to work as described in instructions, and I don’t really understand HOW things are supposed to work. Through trial and error I can always get things working, but I don’t know why or if I have things set up the “right” way. Anyway, enough about my ignorance. I followed the quick start instructions to the letter, turning everything off, including the cable modem. Plugged everything into the new router. Turned on modem, router, PC, allowing each to completely power up before turning on the next. Stuck the CD in and followed the instructions. I upgraded my security from WEP to WPA-2, using the old pass key since I have it memorized. Everything worked like a charm. Went to our two laptops, iPhone, Archos Internet Tablet, Roku Player, and connected each to the new SSID with no hitches. Since everything else is pretty much 802.11g I can’t comment on speed, and I have not tried the USB port, though I intend to. I mainly upgraded to n to use with a bridge to use ethernet to the Roku and other entertainment devices. Oh, and for the gigabit ports which have DRAMATICALLY speeded up copies to my Seagate Dockstar.

  I highly recommend this router to other who, like me, are a little intimidated by networking.

  FWIW, there are many good reviews on another site that begins with new and ends with egg.
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  Jonathan Lent
  November 3rd, 2010 on 7:50 am

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  Solid little router with a great user interface. Seems to be a great deal at this price compared to other single-mode devices. Signal strength is far better than the Linksys it is replacing.
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  Alok Shrivastava
  November 3rd, 2010 on 10:17 am

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  Easy to setup. I installed it in the basement of my 3-story town home. The computer on the top floor has no problem connecting. Remember to download the update and install it on the router. I have not used the USB port yet. The wired ports are gigabyte ports as well.

  I have had two different Netgear routers die suddenly on me and could be revived. I hope this lasts longer. I relied on other’s feedback and I am happy with my decision.
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  B. Aldous
  November 4th, 2010 on 11:09 am

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  I did all my research like I always do and it came down in the end to Cisco (linksys) or TP-Link. I have had many routers since the days of prodigy (showing my age) and most of them have been linksys. I seems by way of reading hundreds of reviews that the days of high quality from linksys are over and now they are mediocre at best but still with the premium price tag (just like sony) So for 150 bucks for the comparable linksys valet model that seems to have a overheating problem or this 70 dollar TP. I have never had a TP product before but at less than half the price and no major issues found in any review I rolled the dice…. and won this router is amazing. Set up was too easy, in 20 minutes I had both the wired and wireless networks up and secure. This thing has speed and range. I was watching a full 8gb movie (VOB) on an old as dirt laptop 40′ away though 5 walls and perfect, full speed. My ipod touch works down the street. I can’t wait to try pout the wireless N which is supposed to be even faster.

  Best of all I got it fast. I love the free super saver shipping because I am a cheapskate but I hate waiting up to 2 weeks. I got it in two days! yay! granted it shipped from LA and I live in San Diego but still yay.

  Get this router you will be very pleased.
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  Jason
  November 4th, 2010 on 11:23 am

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  Hi I realize this is a review for a tp-link router, but I figured I would get into the story of how I came to buy this one. I actually purchased a belkin router about a year ago to replace my old linksys wireless G router. The belkin router I had was great, paid about 60 bucks for it . I had some major problems setting it up, but after I reached a decent person at support they had me up an running and I had no complaints, then we had a storm and my router got zapped. I purchased a new belkin play router for about 70 and it took me 4 hours and 2 different people at tech support to get it set up. Then it worked when it wanted to. I spent 3 days of it dropping signal and losing connection before I was on amazon to look for a new one. I had it narrowed down to this TP link and a D-link router, which were with 10 bucks of each other. They both had decent reviews, however the d-link one had 4 star over 1000 reviews, but there were 153 that were 1 star. This tp-link had only 13 reviews but was rated 5 stars, all reviews were 4 or 5. I decided to go with the TP-link, a little cheaper and all good reviews. It arrived today and I let my sons play xbox live and try to go online for awhile, not knowing how long the internet would be out. I then told them it was time and went in the room where the modem was, and hooked it up. I use all wireless, but followed the directions for once and started off hooking it up with the network cable. About 5 minutes later I went out and connected to it on my desktop and xbox 360 wirelesly. I told my kids they could go back on and they said, right dad, whatever. I told them again, seriously go on. They were so excited. So yea I have only had it hooked up for about 30 minutes, but it is great so far. Easy set up, no dropped connections, and fast page loading. I would highly reccommend this router. I use it to connect wirelesly to a desktop, laptop, 360, and printer. Very great so far. If something changes I will edit my review or write a new one. PS I now use a surge protector that has the phone line going through it for my DSL. IT came through the phone line and zapped the router and my other sons xbox 360 ethernet port, which makes it so it will not work, but somehow the modem was left unscaved. I hope this helps anyone in the market for a wireless router.
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  S. Lee
  November 4th, 2010 on 7:31 pm

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  I have lived with quite many routers, wireless or not, famous brands or not, linksys, d-link, buffalo, edimax, name it.
  
  All of them, not a single exception, caused some problem when you first install.

  This one, one the contrary, just worked. Connected the cable, and that was it. My internet phone, laptops, desktops, all of them just connected.
  
  I had one tp-link adapter for desktop, that one did not even need to refresh the wireless.

  Now speed, well, not sure if this is any faster than my previous b/g, but at least the tp-link adapter says 300mb connection.

  Range: very good.

  Stability : never dropped connection after I bought it. However, in my experience, usually the instability was caused from the adapter side, not from the router unless it is real crappy.
  
  Most of the cheap product had a serious instability because of the configuration issue. Once configured, they usually works.

  This is real cheap for its quality. Do not compare to the garbages that I would not take for free. The price was one of the main factors that made me try this unit.

  Finally, you will find the unit is quite small, and beautifully white. Its constantly blinking lights also looks great. Do not look at the picture. the real unit looks much better. Well, I personally consider most of the routers ugly, and try to hide them. This one is not.

  I usually never write a review, but this unit is so good that it made me to write this. Thinking that this company should prosper and make this kind of good machines for me. ^^
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  P. Nilson
  November 4th, 2010 on 9:13 pm

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  Glad I purchased this router. Replaced my 7 year old D-Link. My home network consists of 4 PC’s, 2 XBOX’s, a print server, and a media player. All hardwired. Also, a couple of Itouches and a wireless netbook. Setup was easy!! I was up and running in about fifteen minutes. You don’t need to be a router genius to install this. Yes, there are many settings and features on this router. As you go through all the paramaters, all the settings have an explanation to the right. This is really helpful!! The only problem I was having was with the network card on my Windows 7 machine. After doing searches, I found this problem to be a common network issue on W7 machines. I needed to disable my network adapter then re-enable it everytime the PC rebooted or went into sleep mode. Long story short..I unplugged the ethernet cable from the router switch and plugged it into my Black Box secondary switch. Problem solved!! Glad I did that instead of waisting money on a new network adaptor. Must be some hardware conflict with something in the router switch? It’s weird because there are no problems with the other three ports. Definitely a W7 issue. Moving on..The wireless signals are strong and robust. Never a disconnection. I set up my network using Mac filtering. Easy setup on that also. Works like a charm!!!
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  Hiker 101
  November 4th, 2010 on 10:04 pm

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  Great Wireless router for the price not to mention it was really easy to program and set up. I got into some trouble of how to go even further with the security features but decided it was not worth jeopardizing the security of our system. Really great signal quality and speed