Linksys WRT AC3200 Open Source Dual-Band Gigabit Smart Wireless Router with MU-MIMO Tri-Stream 160 (WRT3200ACM)

With so many options listed on Amazon, I was confused which to buy. But decided to go for this one and it turned out to be exactly the right one I was looking for ! Brand new, Middle East version. Price was significantly lower than in Carrefour or Sharad DG! Coming to router - I bought this as it was recommended by ExpressVPN. It was easy to download and flash the router. Although it limits a lot of the default features - you get 2.4 & 5 GHz bands at desired country server. Split tune long enables certain devices to have no VPN and rest to have selected VPN. The range is weak though - network doesn’t go beyond 2 thick walls.

Due to a problem, I had some question. However, they helped me in a very fast and professional way. Thank you for your support. It helped a lot.

All good as expected

Goods: Easy to setup and get started Bads: Having an L Shaped house, the signal strength is not good enough to reach the corners of my house...

Linksys has made it impossible to access and configure the router, the iOS app crashes before accessing the modem, weblink takes you into a loop and ask for installing more software! It’s a joke now...I have bought and configured over 5 of these routers in the past, but linksys has made it impossible to access at this point.

Very Good Product especially if you are interested with the open source software

Delivers what it promise.

Device is a huge nightmare when changing any of its settings. Needs constant restarting

The product arrived within the specified delivery date and in good condition. Set up was easy and it worked perfectly. Highly recommended l.

El router lo compre con el fin de mejorar la red inalambrica ya que al tener varios dispositivos conectados al módem fibra de TELMEX no todos los dispositivos tenían buena recepción y/o ancho de banda. Ya llevo un par de semanas y estoy mas que satisfecho, el router cumple con creces, es bonito estéticamente hablando, es muy fácil de instalar y usar. El contenido es un disco que trae una serie de guía para el usuario en varios idiomas, el router, un adaptador de corriente, las cuatro antenas y el cable ethernet para conectar el router a su módem. **Acceder al sitio de Linksys smart wifi te permite un sin fin de funciones, desde ver cuanto consume cada dispositivo conectado, habilitar una red provisional para invitados, dar prioridad de bando de ancha a ciertos dispositivos e incluso plataformas entre otras más. En cuanto al envió llego por UPS, y llego en tiempo pero el problema que veo es que la actualización en su sitio sobre el estatus del pedido tardan en actualizar bastante, algo que con pedidos de importación con DHL no sucede.

Do not buy this. It comes with a closed source operating system. Disgusting behaviour

Bought from Amazon AUSTRALIA, and delivered today. However, it did NOT come with an Australian plug. Now I have to also buy a US-to-AU adapter, one that is rotated by 90° if I want to fit it into my power board, or a suitable replacement adapter with an Australian plug. Really? That just sucks. There was NO warning in the product description that it would come with a US plug only. If I buy something from Amazon Australia I think I can expect to be able to use it in Australia out of the bloody box!!!

This router is nothing short of amazing! I needed to upgrade our house system from an older Ethernet router to a router that would offer both hardwired Ethernet ports (for the legacy Ethernet devices in our house, including my desktop PC) and also WiFi, but the catch was that I was hoping to get WiFi range up to over 100 feet in radius, and I knew in advance that this range is often not achieved in under-$100 WiFi routers. However, after a bit of online research into WiFi routers, my gut sense told me to pick this router, which was priced under $50. It arrived a few days ago, and I set it up almost immediately. The setup on my Windows 7 desktop PC was quite straightforward, but I do note that the Setup Wizard ground to a halt and failed after the installation of the all-important drivers, and I was not even able to close the program and its window until I used Task Manager to unload the application. I then tested the router, and it worked fine, even though the Setup Wizard had not yet completed. I note that several other reviewers of this product have also noted that the Setup Wizard had also failed/frozen up on them while they were installing the router. I then tested the router performance a bit, and even though I used rather lengthy (12 foot long) cheaper older Ethernet cables to connect the router to the cable modem (we have very fast Comcast cable modem service, and a very fast Motorola cable modem) and to connect the router to my PC, I noticed immediately that the speed/bandwidth, via Ethernet cable, and also via WiFi, was obviously considerably faster than had been the case my older router, which had always offered very adequate speed/bandwidth. I then tested the WiFi range indoors. Our house is an older wooden house which has a footprint of only about 1600 square feet (including an enclosed porch), and, while walking around with my laptop, I noticed that WiFi coverage was great throught both floors of the house, and also on the enclosed porch, and also in the unfinished basement. I then decided to test the WiFi range outdoors, using only my cheap laptop and its admittedly-limited-range built-in factory-equipped WiFi antenna/WiFi module, because we live on a heavily-wooded lot (no lawn, only forested mountainside) I was also hoping that the WiFi signal might possibly reach my workshop, which is located about 125 feet from the modem's 2ndfloor locaiton in the house, and I was also hoping that the WiFi signal might also reach two enclosed meditation gazebos, which are located, respectively, about 130 feet and 160 feet from the house, with numerous intervening large trees, and also bushes, between each of these three structures and the house. To my amazement, the WiFi signal strength in each of these three outdoor structures was very good; this was particularly surprising in the case of my workshop, which has wooden walls and roof that are heavily lined with foil/bubble/foil insulation, and there were also a dozen CFL lamps (which are known to emit RF inferference (aka RFI) which can interfere with WiFi signals) burning brightly the workshop at the time of my test. I then decided to try to push the limits of the modem's WiFi range, and started walking further into the forest beyond each of the three structures that I mentioned above. To my amazment, I discovered that the build-in WiFi antenna/circuitry inside my inexpensive 3-year old laptop was able to receive the WiFi signal (and still at a very impressive speed/bandwidth) out to a distance of at least 390 feet from the house (I did not try to go further, because I was tired of tramping up the mountainside in the snow), despite the fact that there were many dozens of large trees (and also bushes) in the signal path between the house and my varied test locations in the forest. I then ran some additional coverage range tests in other directions (since all of the above-mentioned tests had been confined within the same 90 degree slice of the 360 degree coverage radius), all of them heavily forested, and these further tests confirmed that the signal reached to at least the same distance in every direction as had been found earlier, with the sole exception of one direction, where an intervening steeply-rising hillside/mountainside completely occluded the line-of sight path about 100 feet from the house; this limited the WiFi range in this direction to a bit less than 300 feet from the house. In conclusion, I can say that this WiFi router vastly exceeded all of my expectations! It's performance continues to amaze me today, about 6 days after the router was first installed. And to realize that I paid less than $50 for this router at Amazon Marketplace. . . it is quite amazing! My next step, since I have also noticed that the WiFi signal reaches the henhouse with very good strength, is to install one of my old laptops in the henhouse so that our chickens and ducks can surf the web whenever they wish.