Cisco-Linksys WRT350N Wireless-N Gigabit Router with Storage Link by Linksys
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Digital camera reviews of Cisco-Linksys WRT350N Wireless-N Gigabit Router with Storage Link
Digital camera Review: Pretty good little router
Summary: 5 Stars
I am somewhat at a loss to understand all the negative reviews of this router. This router is a breeze to set up and works great. It is forgiving of about every sin you can imagine. You plug it in and it works.Digital camera Review: Save your money and more importantly time!
Summary: 1 Stars
This product is horrible. I couldn't get it to work with my DSL out of the box. I called tech support (India) and they were no help. I finally connected my old router, downloaded the latest firmware and got it working on my own only to find that performance was horrible. Wireless range and data transfer speeds are sub-par and Internet performance was worse than my previous router. It barely works with my Xbox 360, I had to modify multiple setting just to get my xbox to connect to live. I strongly advise you not to waste your time and money on this product. I replaced my WRT350N with a DLink DGL-4500 and had it up and running perfectly in 5 minutes. Performance, range and internet on the Dlink have all been great. Xbox live worked with minimal configuring which the Dlink automatically does for you if you select live under the gaming category in its setup.Digital camera Review: Setup is a snap!
Summary: 5 Stars
If you've set up a wireless router before, you'll find this to be a snap. Administration is virtually the same as with my old G router from Linksys. I had it up and running in minutes with the latest firmware.
DHCP Reservation is a huge addition in my opinion. Now, when the power to your router goes off, your machines come back with the same IP addresses as before. When your different IP devices interact over the network, that can be important.
Range seems to be about the same as my old G router, but I think the range boost comes when using N hardware on the clients.
Digital camera Review: Storage Link Does NOT Work
Summary: 1 Stars
The Storage Link on the Linksys WRT350N does NOT work.
I have tried more than once, in different configurations, and it does not work. Period. Upgrading the firmware will not resolve the issue.
If you have folders and files on an existing USB drive and then attach it to the router, they will not appear as they should. Directories will appear as subdirectories of others in cases where they really are not. In other words, directory A will appear beneath directory B even when it is not! It's simply WRONG.
Also, it is absolutely impossible to assign read/write permissions for different users to different folders. 75% of the time the router software will not save your changes. Even when it does save your changes, randomly, the security permission will not work as you define them.
Do not buy this product.
Digital camera Review: Storage Link has limited utility, only supports R & W.
Summary: 3 Stars
I do like my new router, but was disappointed, especially after 3 days of working with my backup software and many chats with about 6 company tech support folks to discover the following:
The firmware does not support full access to the USB-attached drive. Sure, you can map the drive and write to it and read from it, but you don't have the level of access necessary to adjust the attributes of the files. (For example, you can't unset the modified attribute and the file timestamp you get when you xcopy the file will always be the current time, not the original timestamp of the file. This renders many backup solutions useless. (A senior tech at the company finally explained -- after many hours going 'round and 'round with 3 different firmware replacements -- that this is a known "product limitation" and she pointed me to the NSLU2.