Review on Enhanced Performance! Linksys E2500 (N600) Advanced Simultaneous Dual-Band Wireless-N Router by Terence Dardant

This may not be a problem for most users, but it is a determining factor for those who already have a router (e.g. built into their Cable/DSL modem) and plan to use the Linksys E2500 as a Access Using the E2500 as an access point (the technical term is "cascading") is very simple once you understand the Linksys logic: connect one of its LAN ports (blue ports numbered 1-4) to the LAN port of your original router and disable DHCP on the E250. Disabling DHCP in the UI also disables NAT, turning the E2500 into an access point: computer devices connected to the E2500's Wi-Fi network get their IP address from the original router. The problem is that disabling DHCP destroys the guest wifi. -Fi network function: E2500 keeps broadcasting the guest network, clients see it and can connect to it (at 192.168.33.1) but get no IP address from E2500. because there is no DHCP server that can issue IP addresses in the range 192.168.33.*! This game is over. It took me almost two hours to figure out the cause of this over the phone with Cisco/Linksys and the support rep confirmed it was a known bug (they call it an "unsupported scenario"). Website. Cisco/Linksys: Fix this issue. or at least disclose the restriction on your website. On a positive note, the technician I spoke to was knowledgeable, very friendly and helpful (my case number: #120228-008929). Here are a few other product limitations I've found: - The name (SSID) of the guest WiFi network cannot be changed. If your primary SSID is "blah", the guest SSID is "blah-guest" - it is not possible to apply usage restrictions to the guest WiFi network. I would at least expect to be able to restrict ports/protocols (e.g. only allow HTTP(S) and block P2P or SMTP, but that's not supported) - it's possible to limit WiFi protocols to just "A" or Restrict only "N". but not, for example, to "G+N". It probably doesn't matter to most, but it's a little odd. Of the pluses *there* is a bridge mode (my E2500 comes with firmware 1.0.1). I've read several forum posts about this so thought I'd confirm it. I haven't tested this, although you really need to document it better.