Tuesday, December 7, 2010

Asus RT-N16 Partial Review

RT-N16 by Asus is a beast of a WiFi Router.

This router has some amazing specs. And its performance is pretty good.

Specs:
RAM: 128MB
Flash: 32MB
2 USB 2.0 Ports
Wireless B/G/N
Broadcom Chipset @480Mhz
4 Gigabit Ethernet Ports 10/100/1000
3 External Antennae's(Great, better than Linksys with no antennae's)
Supported by DD-WRT

Supports 300,000 connections. It acts and a File and Print server with the USB ports. It also acts as a media Server. Can download files directly to USB drives so you don't need your computer on all the time anymore.The web interface of this device is one of the best, no The Best I've ever seen, Its good enough for techy people to use, yet, simple and intuitive enough for novice users to use.

At 100$ your getting top of the line hardware for a Wireless Router. And with DD-WRT the possibilities and features that can be used, make it worth just having this router around. You can install OpenVPN if you put DD-WRT on it, and have a free VPN server to connect home when away.


I have not seen such high specs on a consumer router before, so It's worth having even for future use. I say that because If you look at most manufactures (especially Linksys) The Ram, Flash, and CPU specs drop as they progress. It seems that we are moving backwards when it comes to home WiFi router's instead of forwards. I would of expected that by now our home Wireless Routers would be as good as our computers. I wanna see 1GB of ram, 3Ghz CPU, and 16 GB of flash in a router.

3 comments:

  1. Do you know the reboot URL for the RT-N16? Thanks.

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    1. I used perl and Net::Telnet but am still interested in the URL if you know of one. Thanks.

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    2. Sorry don't have the router any more, so I cant get the URL.

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