Comments on: Apple Airport Extreme vs. Linksys WRT310N

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: 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: 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: 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.

By: pff

pff — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 18:09:52 +0000

15MB download speed with a directly connected modem and 20MB with the Airport Extreme, wow it must amplify the ISP signal! -.-