TP-Link N450 WiFi Wireless Router
$17.89
$24.99
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Condition: New
Size: N450
Style: WiFi Router
Top positive review
13 people found this helpful
Great router
By Breanne on Reviewed in the United States on August 8, 2016
I purchased this router a week ago, so I cannot comment about the longevity of it. I'm out of my element when it comes to IT since I don't really know what I'm doing or what to look for when it comes to IT-related devices, network, etc., but I took a chance on this since the reviews were pretty good overall. I was worried about the many poor reviews and the chance that I'd get one that didn't work, but I haven't been disappointed. I had a Cisco Linksys router that needed to be replaced which is why I bought this one. My connection is SO much better with this router. I would constantly get buffering and connection problems with Netflix and Plex, and my wifi status on both my laptop and Surface would switch to "Limited" pretty often. Even browsing on my phone was a pain and often I'd have to turn off the wifi. It got much, much worse over the last month. For now, though only a week old, this router has been great. The set up was quick and easy. I did it myself (and I'm not super tech savvy) within five minutes or so. The only problem I had with the set up was the cable that came with it; it didn't work. I swapped it with one I had lying around and it worked just fine. I was able to easily log into to the router using the internet and set up a static IP for my NAS (with A LOT of help from Google searches!) and that's worked well so far. I had no problem connecting all my devices and I have not experienced any problems with my connection. I have been able to watch things on Netflix with no buffering, no stopping for "internet connection" issues, no problems whatsoever. My download speed is also much faster. My phone can say connected to my wifi and I can browse quickly with no issues. It is seriously night and day with my connection. I understand it seems like this router is fantastic when it was actually the old one was just poor from the start, but for the money this router seems to be pretty great. I'm assuming this router acts like a router is supposed to so I have no complaints thus far. Once I've had it for a few months, I'll post an edit to this review stating whether it still works well or not at all as some people have claimed.
Top critical review
3 people found this helpful
DD-WRT - Supported? Well, Not Really
By 86463342r2 on Reviewed in the United States on January 22, 2015
Potential DD-WRT users, I received hardware version 2.1, which I verified to have the Atheros AR9341-DL3A wireless chipset inside. The storage chip is an ESMT M13S2561616A, which is 4MB. The WR940N v2.1 that I received shows in its own web interface that it is "Hardware Version: WR940N v2/WR941ND v5 00000000" After researching for a while now, I am unable to find a version of DD-WRT that can successfully flash to this router via the stock firmware's web interface. I have tried all the tricks for flashing via the web interface that the internet had to offer. I have not tried flashing via serial connector. If you want dd-wrt, but want something cheap, then I suggest this router's little brother: the WR841N. Most hardware versions of the cheaper TP-LINK TL-WR841N ($20 right now) are supported by at least a beta of dd-wrt (Router Database -> Other Downloads tab). I got dd-wrt working on hardware version 9.0 easily once I found the betas (though with 20 MHz channel width/150 Mbps link speed only). It's not a 3x3 Tx/Rx, but if you want a cheap, non-gigabit, 802.11n wireless router for dd-wrt, that one is potentially a good choice. Otherwise, if you want a hassle-free dd-wrt experience, consider something with a supported Broadcom chipset. The ASUS RT-N12 is less than $40 right now, looks good, is supported by dd-wrt, and uses Broadcom. If you can afford something closer to $80, or if you need gigabit LAN ports, look no further than the ASUS RT-N16... though if you're willing to pay $80 for a router, then you're probably not reading this review. ;-) If you need performance, then a refurbished ASUS RT-N16 has good value. **** **** **** **** Stock Firmware The stock firmware seems to have a lot of features that are more advanced than many other wireless router vendors'. However, one shortcoming I noticed right away is that you can only use numbers, letters, hyphen, and underscore for the router's admin password- no special characters! I especially like that each settings subsection has detailed information in a frame on the right that describes what each setting does. In addition to the basic stuff, here are some other things I noticed. There is a QoS engine labeled as "Bandwidth Control" with customizable rules. There is built-in support for several dynamic DNS solution providers. You can run ping and traceroutes from the web interface. In the basic security section, there are options for SPI firewall, VPN passthrough options, and ALG options. Under advanced security, there are a few options to protects against DoS attacks by filtering different types of packet floods. For wireless, there are settings for things such as transmit power, beacon interval, group key timeout interval, and channel width, among others. Range seems okay, though wireless range will always depend on many, many variables.
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