[DEAD: Price Raised and No More Free Shipping] Asus RT-N16 Wireless N Gigabit Router + (2) 10ft cat5e cables $82 shipped free or $77AC at Mwave

Quote from Guitar1969 : I actually just bought this router on the recent newegg deal. Not sure how good of a router this is even with the med firmware(I am running DD-WRT). Take a look at this review of the hardware, they crucified it: http://www.smallnetbuilder.com/wi...l=&start=4 Real world speeds are very slow - I am not sure if the mod firmware improves these numbers. Just thosght people should know before they buy, as I am having buyers remores, even though its a good deasl.

The default Asus firmware for this thing is not that great. This is really more of an enthusiast router given its hardware platform and specs. I wouldn't recommend buying it unless you're planning on replacing its firmware with Tomato (my preference) or DD-WRT.

Quote from corinacik : Is there any reviews for that?

http://www.lmgtfy.com/?q=RT-N16+review

Quote from paperwastage : just a fair warning, if you plan on installing a lot of Optware on Tomato [xtremecoders.org], you might want to replace the power supply with 12V 2-4A instead of the 12V 1A the power supply on mine died after a week and took the router along with it(got it RMA'd). I only loaded up Tomato and print support, nothing else enabled(no optware or usb hdds), and it still died

Why does the power supply die? Is that because the router is being pushed further than the designers intended with the custom firmware?

For those with alot of wifi interference in their residence. Here is a simple mod you can do to boost your signal.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YOBfxbpxosA

Quote from sephiro499 : Why does the power supply die? Is that because the router is being pushed further than the designers intended with the custom firmware?

bad components inside....... http://www.dd-wrt.com/phpBB2/view...b5029353c1

awesome, now i can finally use the N built into my lappy.

Looks like the deal is dead now (no more free shipping).

Also just want to say "Thank You" to all who repped!

Weird, their homepage says $2.99 flat rate shipping, but at checkout its $9.94 to michigan...ah well

Quote from sephiro499 : Why does the power supply die? Is that because the router is being pushed further than the designers intended with the custom firmware?

a) cheap lousy power supplies that dont supply the rated power, or just dies because of lousy parts
b) the router might try to pull more power than needed. I believe that the ARM cpu is underclocked from 522mhz to 400mhz to reduce heat and save power

Update: Free shipping is back.

Excuse my ignorance, but arent routers way cheaper than that?

I bought this router about a month ago, and I love it. The default ASUS firmware/utilities would have been good if they had worked like they were supposed to. I like the nice network map in the default firmware, but download master utility was horrible. I flashed first dd-wrt, then tomato. With tomato my speeds (especially torrents) significantly improved, I believe this is due to the efficiency mentioned above (more simultaneous connections). I then loaded some of the optware packages from xtremecoders (which are in fairness dd-wrt packages). I use transmission and the samba server included with optware, and the media server included with tomato and I am fairly pleased, it seems like minidlna (the media server) has to be restarted every few days, but other than that I haven't had any problems. When I get time I'll probably experiment with using a different media server that does transcoding to get better compatibility with my xbox.

So I purchased this router and installed tomatousb. When I run speedtest, the first time came out around 11mb/s however now it runs around 1-2 mb/s. However, when I run speedtest on my android with wifi, it consistently measures 11mb/s. I assume it's due to packet loss. What are ways I can tweak the tomatousb settings to minimize packet loss?

Also, when I tried to 'overclock' the processor it hangs up and the wifi signal does not work. It will eventually work when I adjust back down to factory settings (480 MHz). Anyone understand why?

Lastly, I've enabled QoS and notice a significant drop in d/l speeds. I don't have too many things taking up my bandwidth. Any thoughts on the issue?

Quote from missmarple : Excuse my ignorance, but arent routers way cheaper than that?

if you want a cheap piece of crap that works for 1-2 devices, no print/usb hdd support, no gigabit, then yeah

this one's little brother (RT-N12) is only $30... go get it... of course you'll miss the stuff above along with the powerful processor, 128mb ram, 32mb rom, but its cheap

i currently have this one loaded with 10 people on the network AND a repeater bridge about 100 feet and 5 walls away... still get my internet 15-25 mbps on speedtest.net, with some signal loss from the repeated bridge as it is far away. This router doesn't break a sweat with such a load