Performance: 5 stars - Ease of Use: 2 stars

I was a little concerned when I read the reviews that claimed difficult set-ups, but what the heck? I've set up a bunch of wireless networks and didn't expect any problems. Boy was I wrong...

The router set-up wizard did a very nice job, but seemed to have problems addressing my workstation once the hard-wired connection was removed. After powering down and restarting the cable modem, router and computer, I got connections on my workstation and my laptop. Then, when I tried to add security (WPA), everything broke again. After 3 hours I gave up and went to bed.

Next morning, I reset the router and started from scratch. Amazingly, it went smoothly this time and I was up and running with WPA on all systems within 30 minutes. Nothing in my experience can account for the issues I had with this.

Performance? Ah, well, let's just say it was worth the effort. I'm running one distant workstation with an "n" wireless adaptor, plus a laptop and my wife's system on "g" adaptors. ALL of  more

Works fine with Mac

For years, we have been happy users of a Netgear MR314 wireless router. But it didn't reach the farthest corner of our home. In looking at various routers, I found many mixed reviews for the newer Netgear routers, so decided to try the Linksys WRT160N. We use almost nothing but Macs in our home.

Setup: Forget the included CD that comes with this router, it is Windows only. It does have the User Guide as a PDF buried in one of the folders. But it is not much help.

Instead, just turn on the router, look for the wireless signal (or plug in directly using an ethernet cable), then use FireFox - the current Safari doesn't work and any changes cause a "server unexpectedly dropped connection" error.

Type: 192.168.1.1 in the browser, then user name "linksys" and password "admin" to get the web based setup menus.

From there, if you have any questions, click on the "Help" link for the individual pages. The help there is much better than in the User Guide.

This router does reach the far corner  more

Sleek

Bought this to upgrade from my Linksys Wireless-G Router, and am glad I made the investment. The speed and range of the previous Linksys router was fine, and pretty reliable all-in-all. However, this new model definitely improves my overall experience by giving me faster speeds and a much broader broadcast that means I can get really strong signals from different rooms and floors of my house. I recommend Linksys products in general, and this one gets high scores as well. It's also got an incredibly sleek, cool-looking design compared to other routers.

Beautiful looking and easiest set-up ever!

I noticed a lot of so so reviews and was wary until I read a professional review praising it's easy set up. I decided to go for it and boy am I glad I did. I happen to be a novice setting up PC related stuff but this router was cake to set up. Be forwarned; however, my intention was to simply set up wireless with encryption and nothing else. I had no desire to set up a full blown network with file and printer sharing. I simply wanted encrypted wireless for my xp windows pc and vista windows laptop in the house. I figure I can print stuff by using the pc with the printer or using a flash drive so I had no desire in oversteaping my technical boundries.

That being said... it was as simple as putting the disk in, following directions printing the encryption code and connecting the router. Easy as cake! I had more trouble configuring the recieving vista windows laptop and xp windows pc! Which wasn't that hard either. The router is connected to my windows vista desktop and my windows vista  more

Linksys WRT160N Ultra

Overview - We are on AT&T DSL running the Elite broadband which is 3-6 Mbps. Our average speed is running 5+ Mbps here in the office and that is with Vonage VoIP phones (6 lines) and 4 laptops

We just hooked up the the Linksys WRT160N Ultra RangePlus Wireless-N router in our new office onto 3 Dell laptops and 1 LG laptop. After the intial install on all the laptops running Windows XP Pro, we had only one minor glitch and that is a firmware upgrade needed on the Intel Wireless 4985 card on one of the Dells. It will not run currently on the Intel Pro Wireless card, everything G and below works fine. But it does run on Windows Wireless configuration just fine. We are all averaging 80 - 140 Mbps depending on how much load is on the line with the phones and broadband activity.

I can not speak for the range of the unit yet since the office is only 1300 sq feet and we just hooked up the router, but I'm approximately 40 ft away with no problems. I'm so impressed how quick this is, I think I  more

LinkSys Wireless - N - Broadband Router

I've tried Belkin and NetGear products before and neither were as compact as this Linksys WRT160N UltraRangePlus Router. This product is exceptionally thin, easy to install, easy to use and also includes the best "tool" anyone would want, a LinkSysEasyLinkAdvisor. This item makes it simple to "repair connections" should something go wrong, or if one wants to add devices (such as a remote laptop computer with a Wireless Adapter). I'm simply blown away by this product and the price is very competitive.

Fixed all my problems

FINALLY! A router that fixes all of the problems I was having. My old router, a D-Link Draft N had trouble connecting wirelessly with my Dell Laptop and my MacBook Pro. (Draft-N routhers don't all conform to the same standards.) It did work with my iMac wirelessly and it did OK with my wired connections.

So, I decided to tey an Apple Airport Extreme. It worked with all my wireless devices, but supprisingly did not do well passing HD TV Shows from my Media Center PC to my Xbox 360 over a wire!

So, after much research I decided to try this Linksys. Since it just hit the market, I figured it would have better Draft-N support.

So, with minimal configuration, this routher works with ALL my devices:

(I have it setup with WPA/WPA2 Wireless security.)

MacBook Pro (Draft-N Wireless)
Dell Vostro Laptop (Draft-N)
Apple iMAc (Draft-N)
Apple iPod Touch (Whatever wireless it uses...)
AppleTV (Wireless)
Nintendo Wii (Wireless)
2 Wired Windows PCs
Playstation 3 (Wired)
Xbox 360 (Wired)

Plus it  more