Rating: Summary: Great Bang For Its Little Buck Review: This is a terrific broadband router that delivers what it promises: a fast solution to share an internet connection, printer, etc. in one's home. I bought it because it was the least expensive device of its kind that supported the cumbersome PPPoE platform. A mere twenty minutes after having received the router in the mail, I was happily surfing the internet in the comfort of my own room. The setup is that easy. All one has to do is follow the enclosed installation CD to the letter (with special attention paid to the instruction booklet that's also included in the package) and you'll be up and running in no time too. The router itself is rather small and heats up fairly quickly -- a minor inconvenience I should think. Needed in addition to the router is one RJ-45 cable to connect the router to one's modem. The cable one used to use to connect one's host computer to the modem can now act as a link to the router's first port. This is the path I chose and as such it required that I purchase only one more RJ-45 cable to connect my second computer to the router. Conclusion: great, inexpensive product from a reputable company. Highly recommended.
Rating: Summary: Great Product - Even Better Price Review: This is simply the perfect product for a home or small office that needs to share a broadband connections. To start out with, its very small and in durable metal casing. More importantly, it does exactly what it needs to do and it does it well. In my case, all I had to do was plug it into my cable modem and into my computers. I didn't have to do any configuration, but even if I did, it would have been a snap. The price is also great. ...
Rating: Summary: Does work fine with Motorola Surfboard Modem and XP Review: This router works great! Contrary to other review here, I had no trouble networking multiple PC's to share my Moto surfboard modem, both PCs have WINXP on them. Good price too compared to other routers with similar features.
Rating: Summary: ok router for the average user Review: When i first bought this router i loved it. the price was great the size was great and it seemed to do its job until i realized that my 3 meg cable connection was cut in half everytime i connected through the router. I bought the router to be able to hook my xbox up to the internet at the same time as my computer but soon realized also that there NO VOICE in online games!.. so if you are wanting this router for that purpose dont buy it! If you want something to just share your internet connection to other pcs with and dont care that your connection speed is going to be cut in half then by all means buy it!
Rating: Summary: great router, just don't upgrade the firmware Review: when I first got the router, it worked fine. But I, like a moron, decided to upgrade the firmware, believing I should have everything up to date regardless of how well it works at first. Then things started to slow down. I could still download at the same rate as before, but there was a 3 second lag everytime I clicked on a web page link (i use verizon dsl). so i tried to downgrade the firmware, which could not be done per the linksys tech support people, so i sent it back for a new one. this time, i didnt' upgrade the firmware, and everything is back to normal, no lag.the thing gets warm, not too hot. i was scared when i read the reviews that it would melt my desk but thats not the case. all in all i like the router. it does what i need it to do and it was cheap.
Rating: Summary: Worked BAD with My Earthlink DSL Review: Wow! I suffered with this thing for 3 days before I gave up and returned it, I bought a Gigafast EE-400R Router instead and most of my problems dissapeared. Bad things about this "Network Everywhere" router: 1. Runs Hot 2. Internet is very slow, 2wice as slow as without this router!! 3. Tech support hours are limited and are a long distance # 4. Didnt work with Secure sites like Hotmail (Ok neither did Gigafast router at first because of Earthlink's MTU settings but the very able tech support helped me there.) If you are having difficulty with secure sites Like hotmail or Yahoo mail try this : 4. change the MTU1 PPPoE client value from 1500 to "1000", and click SAVE ...
Rating: Summary: Low-end router with limited capabilites Review: Yes this router is cheap, but it does not function well. The main reason is that it does not support port-forwarding a key element of a router. I called tech support because port-forwarding did not seem to be working on the NR041, and they told me there was a bug that caused this malfunction. To make matters worse, there is no ETA on the patch for this major problem as Network Everywhere is concerned with their wireless products at this point. I sincerely urge people to skip this router and look for a better one.
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