 |   Publisher : TRENDnet Company : TRENDnet List Price: Our Price: $149.99 You Save: $80 (35%) Used Price : $134.99 |
Features
- Concurrent Dual Band technology generates two separate 300Mbps wireless n networks at the same time
- Wirelessly stream HD multimedia using the uncongested 5GHz frequency while surfing the Internet using the 2.4GHz frequency
- Up to 14x the speed and 6x the coverage of a wireless g network
- Features Wi-Fi Protected Setup (WPS), all Gigabit Ethernet ports, and 2 USB share ports
- 4 x 10/100/1000Mbps Auto-MDIX LAN ports, 1 x 10/100/1000Mbps WAN port (Internet), 2 x USB 2.0 ports
Product Description
The 300Mbps Concurrent Dual Band Wireless N Gigabit Router delivers unsurpassed Dual Band wireless speed, coverage, and reliability with up to 14x the speed and 6x the coverage of a wireless g connection. Concurrent Dual Band technology creates two separate 300Mbps wireless n networks at the same time—one on the 2.4GHz frequency and the other on the less congested 5GHz frequency. A color LCD management interface provides real time performance, security, and device information thereby reducing the need to login to the router. Share content by connecting USB flash drives, hard drives, or printers directly to two USB ports on the back of the router. Gigabit Ethernet ports offer exceptional wired throughput performance. Multiple Input Multiple Output (MIMO) antenna technology reduces wireless dead spots, advanced wireless encryption protects your digital content, and WMM® Quality of Service (QoS) technology prioritizes gaming, Internet calls, and video streams. Wi-Fi Protected Setup (WPS) connects WPS compliant computers at the touch of a button. Wirelessly stream HD multimedia using the uncongested 5GHz frequency while surfing the Internet using the 2.4GHz frequencySimilarProduct
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Customer reviews
Easy as 3.141593 
by .. Prosaic (Las Vegas)
Installation and set up was easy. Fast as fast can be. Only issue encountered: wireless printer did not want to connect, tech-support recommended (erroneously) to change security to WEP. Changed it to WPA-Auto and all is well. I did not install the router software (I normally let the OS handle it).
All in all, a great dual band router.
Awesome Router... by .. A. Rodriguez (Seattle, WA)
I've had this router for about 2 weeks and love it. I got rid of my DIR-655 that recently died and glad I did. This router absolutely screams on the WAN side. I'm getting about 180-200 Mbps and that is plenty for Bit Torrent and similar applications. I would highly recommend this router.
Great router that lives up to expectations! by .. Pasch (VA)
I recently upgraded an older Linksys router for with this one. This product is very impressive. Throughput is much better to all devices connected on my network. The dual band is nice also because I can segregate traffic.
In comparison to the Cisco Linksys E3000 by .. J. Adongay (WV)
I get suddenlink 10 MB down/sec:1 MB up/sec cable internet service
Speed: With this router I get about 10.1-10.4 MB/sec downspeed and 1.03 upspeed via [...] via BOTH wan and wireless! With the cisco e3000 I would get about 8.5-9.7 MB/sec downspeed and similar upspeeds.
Set-Up: The Cisco set-up is pretty idiot proof, but the interface for advanced settings is lacking. With the Trendnet, while not as easy to set-up, it's pretty intuitive if you just follow the instruction booklet.
Range: Have yet to carry my laptop outside and really test it out, but I get "excellent" signal on my crappy lenovo x60 with Class G wireless.
Wired Printer set-up: Once you install the driver from the included CD printing to my usb-linked-to-router printer was very painless and easy. Cisco e3000 only supports wireless printers (so if you're like me and don't have a state-of-the-art wifi printer you're sol for network printing with the e3000).
LCD monitor: e3000 doesn't have one... but... on my model it kinda sucks. If I try to change any settings via the web-interface or install new devices onto the wireless network the picture on the screen scrambles. I just downloaded the newest firmware and it still has this problem. Hopefully future firmware updates fix this because otherwise, the 673GRU is phenomenal.
Network shared storage: I attached a 2gb usb jumpstick to the router (note the 673gru has 2 usb ports, e3000 only has 1) and it was easy to access via the network software. I really wish it would just appear as a removable drive under "My Computer" like a native usb port, but I'm happy with the performance. The e3000 didn't even recognize my jumpstick - in fact, on the e3000 you had to go through this annoying step of creating shared folders (ugh...).
I bought this router knowing I'll be getting a sweet Class N Dual band capable laptop within the next few months, in the meantime, I'm very happy with this purchase!
*Note to TrendNet* This is a 5 star router if you can fix the screen scrambling with a firmware update.
Solid Choice for a dual band router by .. A. Kang (Glendale, CA)
So I decided to upgrade my wireless router to a dual band, I moved into a new condo and everybody had a wireless router and I knew it would be trouble. I checked and nobody was using the 5GHz spectrum so I knew it was the way to go.
I initially purchased the Netgear WNDR3700. Objectively, The Netgear is a nice router too but I had to exchange 2 units of the Netgear because of an issue with the wired gigabit ports going to sleep and not waking up. Do a google search for WNDR3700 and Tivo and you'll see complaints about the Netgear. Anyway, so I had to find another dual band router after wasting 2 weeks with the Netgear. I really liked the Netgear much better than the Trendnet because it has a hackable firmware using DD-WRT but hey if the ports go to sleep and won't wake back up, you can't use it.
Setup of the Trendnet was very straight forward, nothing out of the ordinary. The best features of the router is the 3 year warranty compared to 1 year for Netgear and other companies. I did have a older Trendnet I bought from amazon 2 years ago. I was about to throw it in the trash when I looked up the warranty and it was 3 years. It was a bit of a hassle to call them up, get transferred to India, talk to 2 levels of tech support, then you email someone in the US that you talked to the 2 levels of tech support, then they RMA your device. I did have proof of purchase but they didn't even ask for it but then again, my router which was a single band N didn't come out more than 3 years ago. They sent me a brand new one within 2 weeks. So warranty support is top notch, a bit of a hassle but I did get a new machine.
If you read the reviews, this router gets good ratings for speed. The LCD screen is nice in theory but you'll never use it. It has these 4 buttons and not easy to use at all. I am not going to sit there for hours learning how to use it because it's not that helpful to begin with. The router has a blue led light in front that is always on. This is the most annoying thing in the world. Who designs something like this, this blue light can light up the whole room at night. I think someone at Trendnet needed a night light, so they decided to put one on this router. No joke, the light is bright and it's just annoying. It's not like normal flashing lights on a router, it's a blue beam and you might go blind if you stare directly at it. The router comes with extra rubber feet nubs in case you decide to put the router on it's side, vertically. Use the rubber feet to cover the blue light.
Another bad, no guest network, so that if you have friends over, you don't have to give them the password to your network. The netgear had that feature and all the expensive routers do to. The USB ports are worthless, you need to install a software to use it and only the computer that you installed the software on can use the device attached. So if you attach a printer to it, only the computer you installed the software will be able to use it. Not every computer on the network.
Overall, I am keeping the router, I have no problems with the gigaports like I did with the Netgear. There's really nothing special about this router compared to others in its range but it gets the job done and the price is decent.