Linksys WRT610N Simultaneous Dual-N Band Wireless Router | 
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| Brand: Linksys
Category: CE
List Price: $199.99
Buy New: $149.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:  22 reviews
Sales Rank: 302
Media: Electronics
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2.6
Dimensions (in): 2.6 x 12.1 x 10
nv:Device Type: Wireless Router
Form Factor: Desktop
Form Factor: Wall Mountable
Wireless Network Standards: IEEE 802.11g
Wireless Network Standards: IEEE 802.11b
Wireless Network Standards: IEEE 802.11a
Wireless Network Standards: IEEE 802.11n
Wireless Data Transfer Rates: 270 Mbps
Wireless Transmit Power: 16 dBm
Security Protocols: WPA
Security Protocols: 128-bit WEP
Security Protocols: 64-bit WEP
Security Protocols: WPA2
Modulation Technology: BPSK
Modulation Technology: QPSK
Warranty: 1 year warranty
MPN: WRT610N
Model: WRT610N
UPC: 745883585205
EAN: 0745883585205
ASIN: B001AZ01EO
Shipping: Eligible for Super Saver Shipping
Availability: Usually ships in 3 to 5 weeks
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| Features:
| • | Internet-sharing Router and 4-port Gigabit Switch, with a built-in, dual-band, speed and range enhanced Wireless Access Point | | • | Two simultaneous, separate, radio bands double your available bandwidth | | • | MIMO technology uses multiple radios per band to create robust signals for maximum range and speed, with reduced dead spots | | • | Connect a hard drive or flash-based USB storage device to allow access to your music, video, or data files from within your network, or through the Internet |
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Product Description
The sleek Simultaneous Dual-N Band WRT610N Router is designed and engineered for lag free gaming, uninterrupted music and streaming high-definition video. Dual Wireless-N bands can provide twice the bandwidth so you can do all this while browsing the Internet, sharing files, sending e-mail, and printing.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 17 more reviews...
 Linksys used to be great...not anymore August 15, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I've been working with wireless routers since my first Beadlenet, seemingly a lifetime ago. I recently decided to upgrade my WRT54GS with the 610, primarily for the N band, but also because the 54GS kept requiring a reboot about twice a day. The 610 is my fifth Linksys router, and I have been a reliable Linksys customer - all my adapters are Linksys, every router (since the Beadlenet) has been a Linksys, and I honestly never even looked at D-Link or the others. That has now changed.
First, LELA (their Easy Link Advisor) caused a lot of problems. After going though it numerous times, it would just stare at me at the end of setup with "Cannot connect to router". OK, on to manual setup - no big deal, I've done this probably a hundred times or more.
I was able to finally get connected. With the router in the exact same place as my old one, my range on the 2.4Ghz band was well under half of what I was getting before. The router is in the basement, which with the 54GS allowed me to go anywhere even on the second story. Now, I cannot go to even the first story, nor can I go to the other end of the basement. Note that this is with the 2.4Ghz band, same as before. I've also successfully connected to the 5Ghz band, but that is even more limited; anything beyond the next room and I'm out of luck. I tried moving the router around - first floor, second floor, etc. - with no good results anywhere. The range is just severely limited compared to the older Linksys products.
Finally, being a glutton for punishment, I decided to try the USB storage. Keep in mind I work on computers and networking for a living. After 6 HOURS of setup, I could not reliably access the disk. Sometimes it would work, sometimes it wouldn't. Upgrading firmware did not solve this problem, nor did calls to Linksys.
I returned the router, tried another, with the exact same results. I suspect they have a significant problem with these internal antennas; Linksys is more than aware that their range is limited, but they prefer the sleek, "sexy" look over actual functionality. That's just too bad and will prove their undoing.
I am returning this unit and shopping for another brand. I've finally had enough with Linksys.
disappointing but hopefully fixable August 15, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Like some others, I have constant disconnects, especially on N. As one magazine pointed out, the installation instructions should tell you to reboot your cable modem - I wasted hours here (my cable modem is a pain to reboot but I'd have done it if I knew to. G for an older laptop was fairly easy otherwise to setup. N is not fun. Like someone else, whenever I download a large file, N tends to drop. But sometimes it works for a couple hours straight. It needs some work, hopefully just another firmware upgrade.
On a side note, I wish it had the same form factor as earlier units, to be stackable with switches, for instance. The new style is cute, but the old one more practical.
Trouble With Bellsouth DSL August 13, 2008
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
I have gone through 2 WRT610N routers. Both times I spent over an hour with Linksys tech support. I was trying to upgrade from the WRT54G Version 8 (which works great), but I wanted the N channel and some of the other features of the 610. For what ever reason this router will no connect to my DSL connection. It should connect using PPPoE type connection (as it did wiht the WRT54G), but it will not connect. On the first unit I bought the Linksys person tried to blame it on my Alcatel modem, but could not explain why their Linksys WRT54G worked perfectly with the same modem (and had for months). the Linksys tech wanted me to have the modem bridged (disable its internal router). They could not explain how the modem could be un-bridged and worked perfectly with the WRT54G. Finally the first Linksys person told me that the unit must be defective so I should return it and buy a new 610. So I bought a new 610, but it had the idential problem. This time I gave in and called Bellsouth, who told me that there was no such thing as an un-bridged Alcatel Speed Modem, so the router should work and it defintily should work with PPPoE. So after about 3 hours on the phone with Linksys I was told to take the second unit back to the store and go with the older WRT600N and see if it works. If the problem is a hardward problem with the 610, then this is very serious, if it is a software or firmware issue, I can not understand how I am the first person in the Bellsouth / AT&T world to have found this problem. So based on my bad experience, I am going to let Linksys have 6 months to get to version 2 or 3 of this product before I try it again.
Gary Smith
 Don't bother August 11, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
The device has the functionality as other people have covered and is in the product documentation. However I found its support of the 5GHz band is too flaky to be useful. Everything on 2.4 is fine. (Using latest B17 firmware).
On the 5GHz band you are fine if doing light web browsing etc, but about 5-10 seconds after you transfer bulk data the connection dies for about 60 seconds (confirmed using perfmon, wireshark and pings). For example copying a movie file from a camcorder starts at high speed and then fails. Doing the same thing on 2.4Ghz doesn't result in any issues, but is half the speed of 5Ghz and makes having a dual band device pointless.
Cisco should be ashamed August 11, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Heads ought to be rolling at Linksys. This router seems to be only the latest half baked product that has been prematurely shoved out the door. Back about five years ago or so I swore by Linksys products. I was very optimistic that they would get even better once Cisco acquired Linksys. Quite the opposite of what I had hoped for has transpired.
This router is a poster child for everything that has gone wrong the last couple of years at Linksys. While there is a long list of desirable features listed, the reliability of this router puts it in the category of "almost useless". Linksys documentation, tech support, and support web site also fit neatly into this category. The documentation is full of typos and completely inaccurate information, tech support has no technical knowledge of any kind and treats the customer with a level of disdain normally associated with the DMV, and the tech support website is slow, unresponsive, contains little to no useful information, and is unnecessarily difficult to navigate.
So about this router. As many others have stated, this router is totally unstable. It drops connections habitually, constantly requires a power cycle just to reconnect, and sometimes requires you to re-enter a pre-shared key just to re-authenticate (that's a lot of hyphenated words for one sentence). The only reason I am being so generous with a two star rating is that it seems some people have not received a lemon. Unfortunately for me, I am on my second of these lemons in as many weeks.
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