Reviewers Liked
- Good performance
- Good looks
- Media server function with any external hard disk
- Inline PSU
- Easy installation for novices
- Simultaneous dualband operation
- USB storage port
- Easy to set up
- Amazing new design
- CTF for routing throughput is outstanding
- Perfect solution for home media centers
- Extremely easy to set up
- Full featured firmware
- Loads of options and settings
- Great connectivity all over my house on every device I tried it with; no skipping, jittering, or stuttering of audio/video when streaming over WiFi
- Gigabit ports, Guest WLAN supported in Web GUI
- Offers true dual-band with 450Mbps on the 5GHz band
- Gigabit Ethernet; fast throughput
- Innovative design, with three antennas each for 2.4- and 5-GHz bands
Reviewers Didn't Like
- Expensive
- Novices won't get great performance
- Recorded slower wireless speeds than expected
- Parental controls not easy to use
- Horrible Storage Link performance
- Lack of stock functionality in the Web GUI
- 3rd party firmware support still a work in progress
- No possible way to mount it, must sit flat on a surface; bottom was slightly warm to the touch even when not in heavy use
- Need high-end laptop Wi-Fi card to get best results
- Currently lacks IPv6 support
- Doesn't offer 450Mbps throughput on the 2.4GHz band; its guest networking feature is limited to only 10 clients
- The included desktop application doesn't allow for managing all of the router's settings
- Didn't show expected throughput
- Poor NAS capabilities
- The USB port supports storage but not printers
- There is no BitTorrent client