Review on 📶 Cisco-Linksys WRT100 RangePlus MIMO Wireless G Broadband Router: Boost Your Range and Speed! by Mark Turner

I have had a router for about 4 months. It was more difficult at first to set this up using the product assistant software. I'm used to the WRT54GS which I replaced on the WRT100 router. The older Linksys WRT54GS router was much easier to set up through a web browser interface. I tried initially to set up this WRT100 router the same way, but for some reason it failed to log in at first. I then tried the software wizard route and it set up the router perfectly. After that, I uninstalled the wizard software and was able to log into the router through a browser and make other changes to the router settings. From now on I can access the router via a web browser and make the necessary changes. The beauty of this router is that it is 802.11N draft 2.0 compliant. It's not advertised as a Wireless N router, but when I configure it through a web browser I can select 802.11b/g/n mode. This actually speeds up my Toshiba laptop with integrated Intel 802.11N dual-band WiFi when using secure WPA2-AES encryption. Instead of a 54Mbps connection I get a 70Mbps connection. All of my old PCs with PCI Linksys 54GS adapters connect with no problem and stay at 54 Mbps. The range is perfect for my 2 story house with a basement. I get a Great to Very Good signal on my desktop and a Great signal on my Toshiba laptop. I also connected to this router using an old laptop with a Netgear RangMax WPN511 PCMCIA card. This is a Super 108G MIMO card that connects to this router with a great or very good signal at a steady 54Mbps. I had a total of 7 computers wirelessly connected to this router for a LAN party. as a Linksys 54G print server. This is the maximum number of connections I've ever connected simultaneously and I've had no issues with the router. It handles DHCP very well compared to the WRT54GS router. Once a PC is connected to the router, DHCP assigns it an IP address, and you then have the option to reserve the assigned IP address for that PC's MAC address. This mimics a static IP address for PCs connected via DHCP. You can just manually assign static IPs, but IMO it's easier to just have one place to change IPs etc. The router also handles peer-to-peer applications better than the WRT54GS router. I can open more connections at the same time when using the BitTorrent app without the router freezing. It can and does get stuck if you open too many connections, but it still handles connections better. Aside from the initial setup via software, the only other issue I've had with the router is the time it takes to save changes to the router. The router seems to reboot every time you click the save button in the web browser. It takes even longer to make changes and save them using the wizard provided by Linksys. It would be a lot less hassle if we could make all the necessary changes to the router and have a single save button at the top of the firmware web page.