Monoprice's new dual band routers (one has Gigabit ports too)

[Crow550]

Any thoughts or reviews on PID : 9919 http://www.monoprice.com/products/p...=10521&cs_id=1052102&p_id=9919&seq=1&format=2 or 9918 http://www.monoprice.com/products/p...=10521&cs_id=1052102&p_id=9918&seq=1&format=2


Been eying 9918 as I currently am running a good ol Linksys WRT54G V2 W/ Tomato but want Gigabit & wireless N 5ghz. USB port is a plus so I can network my 3TB external drive.

I have my place wired with Cat6 and Gigabit switches anyways.

 

[thecoolnessrune]

I wish it said what the Memory and SoC inside were. It also doesn't say anything about the OS. Is this Monoprice's own (licensed) Firmware??

 

[JackMDS]

I do not know if these Devices are good or bad.

I do know that when the reviews amount to small amount all of them can be entries by employees (and, or one or two confused users).

 

[cmetz]

Any thoughts or reviews on PID : 9919 or 9918

They are probably rebadged TP-Link routers, as that's the most common OEM for the lower-end models plus the most common OEM for rebadges. TP-Link's products are usually okay.

"Name-brand" SOHO routers are always available on sales and other deals - just check the Hot Deals forum for examples. On a sale/deal, you can get an equivalent "name brand" SOHO router for the same price, and with the "name brand" you can find more useful reviews and you can also find third-party firmware like DD-WRT that adds a lot of useful features. For basically the same price, I think you're better off with a "name brand" router - put differently, unless you're saving real money, why take the risk?

 

[Crow550]

Yeah I'm still looking around. I was just wondering if maybe anyone here had picked one up?