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DEAD:Back Again!! New LINKSYS E3000 59.99 @ Newegg

Good deal for those in the market. It's cheaper than the refurbished version on Amazon. Note that the deal is listed as "Special price, 1 day only."
 
this is a good unit (no problem with my Cisco refurb which I loaded DDWRT onto. it was almost a hundred bucks when I bought it a 18 months ago.)
 
Lead Butthead said:
this is a good unit (no problem with my Cisco refurb which I loaded DDWRT onto. it was almost a hundred bucks when I bought it a 18 months ago.)
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I just bought this during the sale for $69 and it is awesome.
I was using an older router on our 30/4 package. I would get 30 down and 4.1 up with the old router connected to a Motorola 6121, but with the E3000 I get 44-56 down and 4.23 up and our laptops get 30 down.

Well worth the money, IMHO.
 
BAMAVOO said:
I just bought this during the sale for $69 and it is awesome.
I was using an older router on our 30/4 package. I would get 30 down and 4.1 up with the old router connected to a Motorola 6121, but with the E3000 I get 44-56 down and 4.23 up and our laptops get 30 down.

Well worth the money, IMHO.
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Are you saying that this router actually allows you to exceed the advertised speeds on your cable internet service?

I have a 20/4 package, a Motorola 6121, and a new Rosewill router, and get exactly advertised speeds, both through the router and directly connected to the 6121. My wifi-connected computers get the same.
 
465 reviews on 4 eggs is not a good review?

Most of the lower ones come from the default firmware.

Flash it dd-WRT and you should be fine.
 
Termie said:
Are you saying that this router actually allows you to exceed the advertised speeds on your cable internet service?

I have a 20/4 package, a Motorola 6121, and a new Rosewill router, and get exactly advertised speeds, both through the router and directly connected to the 6121. My wifi-connected computers get the same.
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That is correct. I did a speedtest with the old router at 30/4.1 and again with this router and hit 44/4.23. I saw speeds of 52 nad 56 but they were not sustained. I am on Charter.
 
If you are planning to use this for gaming and file transfering - it is pretty awesome..

But if you use the E3000 with your media servers and linux based media players, it will make you pull out your hair sometimes... sometimes it doesn't see them or takes days before it shows up on your network...
 
BAMAVOO said:
That is correct. I did a speedtest with the old router at 30/4.1 and again with this router and hit 44/4.23. I saw speeds of 52 nad 56 but they were not sustained. I am on Charter.
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Very interesting. Have you tried it without a router between your cable modem and the computer? How about sustained downloads of large files, such as games off of Steam?

I'm on Comcast - and I actually do exceed the advertised speed in speedtest (hitting 25/4 rather than 20/4), but that's with "PowerBoost," which just accelerates it temporarily (to juice Speedtest results). I think the broadbrand providers are pretty good about capping actual sustained downloads at exactly what you're paying for. Speedtest results are therefore somewhat misleading.

My hunch is that no router is going to actually improve your sustained download speeds on a wired connection.
 
Termie said:
Very interesting. Have you tried it without a router between your cable modem and the computer? How about sustained downloads of large files, such as games off of Steam?

I'm on Comcast - and I actually do exceed the advertised speed in speedtest (hitting 25/4 rather than 20/4), but that's with "PowerBoost," which just accelerates it temporarily (to juice Speedtest results). I think the broadbrand providers are pretty good about capping actual sustained downloads at exactly what you're paying for. Speedtest results are therefore somewhat misleading.

My hunch is that no router is going to actually improve your sustained download speeds on a wired connection.
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There is no powerboost on the 30/4. I am able to hit the same speeds with no router connected as well.
 
BAMAVOO said:
There is no powerboost on the 30/4. I am able to hit the same speeds with no router connected as well.
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Very interesting. At the minimum I think you could conclude that the E3000 certainly isn't a bottleneck to cable internet.
 
Termie said:
Very interesting. At the minimum I think you could conclude that the E3000 certainly isn't a bottleneck to cable internet.
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Yes, I wasn't being clear. I didn't mean it was making it faster, I just meant it was not holding it back like the older router. I did add some rubber feet under it as some said it gets really hot and they had issues with it.
 
Bought this the last time. Just put Tomato on it last night. Still need to tweak it for my setup.

I'm upgrading from 3Mbps DSL to 12Mbps Uverse next Monday, so it'll be a nice upgrade all around.
 
Can the USB port on it be used as a print server when configured as a bridge (if not natively, via DD-WRT or Tomato)?
 
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