rnoam's Full Review: Linksys Ultra RangePlus WRT160N Wireless Router
main point was to use the DD-WRT firmware with it, partly following several reviews in Amazon. Immediately after installation I saw that I can't upgrade my firmware as this is WRT160Nv2 and it apparently uses "Ralink" CPU and not "BROADCOM" cpu - Ralink is not supported yet in open FW due to licensing issues In addition, it appears that there is degrading in memory capacity in the versions of the routers that goes by WRT160N! V1 - 32mb V1.1 - 16mb V2 - 8mb Even more annoying, Linksys do not have reference to any version other than for v1 in this routers webpage! Although I didn't get the actual product I thought I am buying, I started using the wireless with my laptop while my desktop was connected to one of the LAN ports, the results: 1) P2P software causes network disconnects (probably due to the fact linksys reduced the memory to 8MB only), I had to minimize the software configuration in order to stop the disconnects.
2) Signal strength is ridiculous as it doesn't cover all my apartment which is not big. - Update: I got some configuration advise from Linksys support to improve the signal:
Change the Beacon Interval to 50 Change the Fragmentation Threshold to 2304. Change the RTS Threshold to 2304
- It increased the signal strength... I do not like this solution, as my apartment is small the defaults should have sufficed.
Based on other reviews, I am pretty sure that WRT160N V1 is a solid router (Good hardware & FW can be replaced) - if you order this one, make sure you don't get version 2 (at least until Linksys will have a webpage for it with new FW)
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