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Ok everyone here is arguing but I will give you the facts as I have tested. I went out and bought (about a year ago) a top of the line simulatenous dual band linksys, a top of the line simultaneous dual band Dlink, a time capsule and an airport extreme. I also had an old linksys WRT54GL. As for range even though the new ones all claimed to be super range the linksys, time capsule, airport extreme and wrt54gl were about the same, the dlink sucked horribly. So no advantage to the expensive routers. As for it just working the wrt54gl worked right away and has worked for years without needing reset, the expensive linksys worked fine also although it did need to be reset nearly every day, the dlink constantly needed to be reset and was crap, the apple routers worked right away and don't need to be reset also. The only problem with the apple routers is they keep telling me I have a double NAT and the only way to get around it is to do bridge mode when there is no other router lol. As for speed the dlink sucked again and the rest were ALL THE SAME. Thats right the simultaneous dual band wireless N routers were the same speed at 5ghz or 2.4ghz as the wrt54gl. Now that is a bit of a lie, they are faster if you are sitting right by the router but as soon as you pass a wall there is no differance at all. My current setup is a time capsule plugged into my wrt54gl (with wifi turned off), for some reason no matter what I do the time capsule has some serious setup issues unless I have my linksys router provide it with the connection and then just setup the time capusle as a bridge. It doesn't make sense, I have tried multiple times to get it to not do that, but in the end its easier to just have them both hooked up. Only reason I don't just use the linksys is because it doesn't support having a disk hooked up to it and so I wanted the time capusle for that and also because it doesn't have gigabit which I wanted for my HTPC
Ok everyone here is arguing but I will give you the facts as I have tested. I went out and bought (about a year ago) a top of the line simulatenous dual band linksys, a top of the line simultaneous dual band Dlink, a time capsule and an airport extreme. I also had an old linksys WRT54GL. As for range even though the new ones all claimed to be super range the linksys, time capsule, airport extreme and wrt54gl were about the same, the dlink sucked horribly. So no advantage to the expensive routers. As for it just working the wrt54gl worked right away and has worked for years without needing reset, the expensive linksys worked fine also although it did need to be reset nearly every day, the dlink constantly needed to be reset and was crap, the apple routers worked right away and don't need to be reset also. The only problem with the apple routers is they keep telling me I have a double NAT and the only way to get around it is to do bridge mode when there is no other router lol. As for speed the dlink sucked again and the rest were ALL THE SAME. Thats right the simultaneous dual band wireless N routers were the same speed at 5ghz or 2.4ghz as the wrt54gl. Now that is a bit of a lie, they are faster if you are sitting right by the router but as soon as you pass a wall there is no differance at all. My current setup is a time capsule plugged into my wrt54gl (with wifi turned off), for some reason no matter what I do the time capsule has some serious setup issues unless I have my linksys router provide it with the connection and then just setup the time capusle as a bridge. It doesn't make sense, I have tried multiple times to get it to not do that, but in the end its easier to just have them both hooked up. Only reason I don't just use the linksys is because it doesn't support having a disk hooked up to it and so I wanted the time capusle for that and also because it doesn't have gigabit which I wanted for my HTPC
