Netgear have this already for a while; they call theirs WNDR3300. I also has WPS for easy security with a button. I played with it. I think it is better than this one because more antenna's. May I say that Linksys By Cisco is more like Linksys Designed By Netgear? The black look with the blue lights is popular...
This has the same number of antennas as the Netgear. However, the Netgear is limited to only g speeds on the 2.4 ghz side, while this one will do 300 mb on both the 2.4ghz and 5ghz at the same time.
Actually the WNDR3300 can do 270Mbit signal rate / 40MHz channels on 2.4GHz too, just not at the same time as 5GHz. There is essentially one dual band "300Mbit" radio and one 2.4GHz g radio so you can have 300Mbit in only 1 band at a time but can have a legacy g connection going too.
Compare that to the D-Link DIR-628, which only has 1 dual band 300Mbit radio which you can only be in 1 band total.
I've been disappointed with the Netgear WNDR3300 for several months now. I'm looking for something that doesn't drop connections every 5-15 minutes when there are two PCs that are within five feet of each other. I was hoping they would be able to fix this with a firmware flash, but there hasn't been an update since May.
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Netgear have this already for a while; they call theirs WNDR3300.
I also has WPS for easy security with a button. I played with it.
I think it is better than this one because more antenna's.
May I say that Linksys By Cisco is more like Linksys Designed By Netgear? The black look with the blue lights is popular...
This has the same number of antennas as the Netgear. However, the Netgear is limited to only g speeds on the 2.4 ghz side, while this one will do 300 mb on both the 2.4ghz and 5ghz at the same time.
Actually the WNDR3300 can do 270Mbit signal rate / 40MHz channels on 2.4GHz too, just not at the same time as 5GHz. There is essentially one dual band "300Mbit" radio and one 2.4GHz g radio so you can have 300Mbit in only 1 band at a time but can have a legacy g connection going too.
Compare that to the D-Link DIR-628, which only has 1 dual band 300Mbit radio which you can only be in 1 band total.
I've been disappointed with the Netgear WNDR3300 for several months now. I'm looking for something that doesn't drop connections every 5-15 minutes when there are two PCs that are within five feet of each other. I was hoping they would be able to fix this with a firmware flash, but there hasn't been an update since May.