Comments on: Apple Airport Extreme vs. Linksys WRT310N

By: KK

KK — Thu, 25 Aug 2011 23:58:50 +0000

I too have had Linksys routers in the past (IN THE PAST). A couple of different ones actually. I have slowly migrated to Apple (iMac, MacBook Pro, etc). When I could not get adequate signal strength about 50 feet away, I looked into the Apple Airport Extreme. Much more expensive ($180) but, whoa – well worth it. Easy to set up and fully signal strength wherever I go on my property (and at the neighbors down the street). Linksys don’t live in my house anymore!!

By: squidz

squidz — Sun, 28 Mar 2010 23:45:58 +0000

the WRT310N SUCKS ASS as mentioned here. I have had the stupid piece of crap for a year and have had constant problems. In particular, it cannot maintain a wireless connection of any reasonable speed for more than 30 minutes. I have comcast at 16M but over the last couple of months, have never been able to sustain a wireless connection. It constantly drops to about .5M after about 30 minutes. Also is great fun trying to stream music from a common iTunes library…download files from my office etc. This thing will take a sledge hammer to the heart as soon as I snag a new NON-LINKSYS product. BTW, their product support sucks ass too. I was told that if I had lied and told them a fake date of purchase I would have gotten support. But, since I guessed at my purchase date, they would not assist. Once I found my receipt, my guessed date was proved correct and within the warranty period. So, as per their request, LIE to them and they will help. Great business practice isn’t it?

By: merrtoq

merrtoq — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 20:58:15 +0000

Linksys is the worst of the worst. Who normal is still using that piece of junk? And have you tried calling support when you need some help? Yes, you’ll have to wait until they patch you to Djibouti and then you’ll spend additional half hour trying to understand what they’re trying to say. Nothing is as flawed as Linksys, eat it. Why do you have all those third party Linksys firmwares all over the internet (potato and bunch of others)? Because, the one that’s put originally into the device sucks ass, that’s why. Stay away from Linksys!

By: Fred Posner

Fred Posner — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 23:56:21 +0000

@jsgoecke I had oposite experience w/ airport and speed. http://bit.ly/6hDdi5

By: Roger

Roger — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 07:40:46 +0000

Checking back, after going through 2 of the WRT310N routers, I’ve given up. Too many “invalid URL” errors that require a reboot to clear. If it weren’t for that I’d still have one. Definitely fast enough, but I think that Linksys’s Version 2 firmware has some problems.

Ended up with a Dlink DIR-655, pure pleasure after the Linksys to just click on URL’s and not wince. Fine throughput, wireless works well. And I get the gigabit LAN ports, wireless n, and it is stable. No reboots, just works.

Good luck to you if you have a WRT310N, Version 2…

-Roger

By: Fred Posner

Fred Posner — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 20:23:55 +0000

@jasonwert I had problems with the WRT310N. http://bit.ly/ou8xm

By: Roger

Roger — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 07:41:13 +0000

No problems with the WRT310N, 18-20Mb/s down on Comcast using speedtest.net, same as my old WRT54GS. I don’t know how they measure that, since the peak download is supposed to be 12Mb/s according to Comcast, whatever. Anyways, products don’t always age gracefully, and there’s always lemons, even Apple makes lemons sometimes *smile*.

-Roger

By: Mark B

Mark B — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 20:25:19 +0000

Cmon guys, you understand the spirit behind the article…I have this router and it absolutely sucks, and the % of degradation is much better with the apple product. Any argument to that main point? or still stuck on the silly details that he got the speeds mixed up

By: Fred Posner

Fred Posner — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 08:12:21 +0000

@MarkHodder I had the same experience. Been happy ever since. http://bit.ly/10SMG

By: lol

lol — Wed, 20 May 2009 06:57:14 +0000

I noticed the same thing pff. Total bs. While the Airport Extreme is a great router, I don’t know of any router that will actually amp the signal from the ISP.