  - Features
- - Internet-sharing Router and 4-port Gigabit Switch, with a built in speed and range enhanced Wireless Access Point
- - MIMO technology uses multiple radios per band to create robust signals for maximum range and speed, with reduced dead spots
- - Much faster than Wireless-G, but also works great with Wireless-G and -B devices
- - Wireless signals are protected by industrial-strength encryption, and your network is protected from Internet attacks by a powerful SPI firewall
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 Product Description: The Wireless-N Gigabit Router is three devices in one package. There's the Wireless Access Point, which lets you connect to the network without wires. There's also a built-in 4-port full-duplex 10/100/1000 switch to connect your wired-Ethernet devices together. The Router function ties it all together and lets your whole network share a high-speed cable or DSL Internet connection. The Access Point built into the Router uses the very latest wireless networking technology, Wireless-N (draft 802.11n). By overlaying the signals of multiple radios, Wireless-N's Multiple In, Multiple Out (MIMO) technology multiplies the effective data rate. The robust signal travels farther, maintaining wireless connections much farther than standard Wireless-G. Unlike other speed-enhanced technologies, Wireless-N can dynamically enable this double-speed mode for Wireless-N devices, while still connecting to other wireless devices at their respective fastest speeds. In congested areas, the Good Neighbor mode ensures that the Router checks for other wireless devices in the area before gobbling up the radio band. To help protect your data and privacy, the Router can encode all wireless transmissions with industrial-strength 256-bit encryption. It can serve as your network's DHCP Server, has a powerful SPI firewall to protect your PCs against intruders and most known Internet attacks, and supports VPN pass-through. Configuration is a snap with the web browser-based configuration utility. The incredible speed of Wireless-N makes it ideal for media-centric applications like streaming video, gaming, and Voice over IP telephony, and gives you plenty of headroom to run multiple media-intense data streams through the network at the same time with no degradation in performance. With the Linksys Wireless-N Gigabit Router at the center of your home or office network, you can share a high-speed Internet connection, files, printers, and multi-player games. Customer Reviews: Rating:  Date: 2008-07-06 Very disappointing product from Linksys I gotten this WRT310N about 1 month ago. Everything was working perfectly well...initially....until problems appeared. Connection to my laptop was lost and I was unable to reconnect back to the router. I reset the router to factory default setting and even downgrade/upgrade the firmware. It just cannot work. I can see the network which I have created, but I just could not connect. No error messages in the computer management! Its gets really hot after about 10 minutes of usage. Best is to wait for Linksys to come up with a better firmware before purchasing this router. Rating:  Date: 2008-07-05 Excellent router A have had this a month and it is working perfectly - very easy set up. I also have a new Linksys access point and it is working perfectly also. Rating:  Date: 2008-07-04 Really Cool Router It's a really nice looking router, but that's not a performance matter. The signal strength and the speed are really good, just as I expected, the installation and the LELA software are really easy and friendly. If you follow the instructions step by step as you are told, it will work just great. Rating:  Date: 2008-07-01 Lynksys WRT 310N a disappointment I needed a new router and Linksys is a leading brand so after looking a bit I decided to go with the next generation technology and by the new "N" systems.
It was very difficult to install, set up and run. It had serious problems dropping the signal off line over and over. I'm somewhat technically savvy and don't like to give up but this thing had problems from the beginning to the end. It also had problems with different kinds of wireless internet connection devices. All of the computers in the house are still "G" standard and the manual says it'll work just fine with them but it didn't. I called and did online chat with Linksys directly and they still couldn't fix it.
This device cost me 1 weeks time running around the house connecting IEEE cables, reseting computers, re-installing software, firmware, etc. . . . . . I finally took it back and bought the Linksys WRT54GS router. It set itself up right way, set all the other 6 devices in the house up right away, encrypted itself, got everything on line and was done in about 30 minutes. Wow, what a difference. It's straight G but N is still up in the air as far as permanent format anyhow.
Don't buy the WRT310N it's all trouble. Rating:  Date: 2008-06-27 Fabulous This router was so easy to install...less than 3 minutes. Blazing speed and strong signal strength make this a no-brainer. I replaced my old router that kept dropping signal and cannot believe how fast it is. Don't hesitate, this is the one! |