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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. He was pleased with this feature and now has an easy place to backup all of his important documents, music, and pictures. 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. I was also able to easily setup his USB backup drive off of the router so it could be used as network storage. All in all it is a great product. 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.
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. The thing is that it was turned on and working. Fortunately, I have a friend in my company IT department who helped me install this unit and my home network.
My laptop and other wifi applications noticed the network quickly and was very easy to setup. 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. 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.
I could not wait to install the Linksys WRT600n. The dual band work as described and the network security was very easy to set up. I would highly recommend.
This made things very easy. I was using an older g wifi router from D-Link.
DHCP - If you have a dedicated DHCP server somewhere on the network, then forget about this router. DHCP again - If you assign a DHCP range and assign them as static entries.
DDNS - Obviously the router doesn't keep track of the WAN IP changes and if you save the configuration a few times, it'd try to update the IP on the dynamic DNS server multiple times, causing the custom domain to be banned.4. It'd still assign those IPs to other machines.3.
I just can't recommend this router to anyone at the moment, esp. It'd also send DHCPNACK with DHCP diabled.2.
Tech support - Not exactly the router's problem but if you have a support person who'd recommend connecting a cable modem to the LAN port to get around the DHCP problem, you're just not going to trust their tech support anymore. with some fundamental problems below:1.
The darn thing would still assign IPs even if you disable the DHCP function.
Speed has been very good with throughput on my DSL connection benchmarking the same whether wireless or wired. It's supposed to make connecting a wireless adapter to the router a one button affair. I have been using this router for about a week. The manual gives enough of a description of the settings to make your way around. The button on the top of the router is still useless until Linksys enables it via a firmware update. Otherwise, you lose your work. I teamed this router with the linksys WUSB600N USB adapter using only the N band.
Resetting the router and re-changing all the settings again fixed the problem. I suddenly lost any ability to connect to the net via the router (wirelessly or wired) even though all the settings were correct.
Save your settings on each tab before you go to the next one. That scrambled the router's eggs.
Setup was easy enough, even though I skipped the CD and just dove into the settings manually. Setup of the USB adapter was very easy too.The only hick-up I've had was I recently upgraded my DSL speed.
Overall, I've been pleased and these two devices were easy to set up and work well together. One thing to note when changing router settings.
You can't just change all the settings and do one save action.
The installation was easy and intuitive. So guess what I am doing. Absolutely no comparison with the DIR 655. This is our central storage where we keep our files (movies, music, documents, e-mail, etc). My PC is 10 feet away from the router, the PS3 and Sqeezebox are 20f away. Networking is set and you're up and running in a few minutes, or so you thought.My wife's PC is connected to the router via the 1GB Ethernet and naturally this connection is very fast.
My experiment is over and I am getting another D-link DIR 655 device. I purchased this unit because I gave my daughter the D-link DIR 655 unit I had (which worked extremely well). Since I needed a new unit I decided to give the WRT600N a try. There are no walls to speak of between those devices as we have a large open space between our leaving room and office.
I set it up with WAP2 security. My wireless network has many devices connected to it - PS3, Squeezebox, my PC, my laptop and my wife's laptop. The performance is choppy, inconsistent and gets worse as time goes by, so much so, that I have to reboot the router periodically. The DIR 655 performs significantly better (as rated by all professional reviews I read on the net) and does not have any of the side-effects I described above.
It is really bad. This connection is also very fast. It is worse then the original linksys router I had before I switched to D-link. Everything started very well.
As it turns out, the WRT600N router is horrible at supporting streaming media over it's wireless network, period. The wireless network is another story altogether. I have a ReadyNAS network storage device that is also connected to the router via a 1GB Ethernet connection. Working on my wife's PC is fast and easy (I have a 7Mb ADSL internet connection from Qwest).
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