Linksys E1200 Wireless-N Router - I've used Linksys home routers for more than a decade and this is by far
the best one yet in every respect. I didn't bother with their fancy
new guided configuration software as I'm an experienced user. (I do
suspect that inexperienced users might be almost as intimidated by the
nifty new setup software, which transports the desired configuration to
each new computer via a thumb drive, as they were by the older setup
procedure; but that's another story). But I swear that the manual
configuration took no longer than getting the shrink wrap off the outer
box and undoing the twisty-ties -- reset the admin password, give the
SSID a name, select security type, and set a network password. That's
it -- all other factory pre-sets are exactly what you need and would
expect. Total time for manual setup once the shrink wrap was off --
perhaps 3 minutes at most, and most of that spent crawling under the
desk to plug it in. As I used the same SSID and network password as the
old Linksys box I was replacing, all the machines actually rejoined the
new network and router by themselves (and switched from G to N
protocol) as soon as I entered the network password into the router
control panel, with no prompting. And finally, the new packaging, even
though it shouldn't really matter that much, is nothing short of
breathtaking. If you're used to staring at the funny blue box on 4 legs
with the two ear antennae, suddenly you enter the 21st century with
this new box -- everyone familiar with Linksys products wants to touch
it as if it's fine jewlery! It must be only 20% of the volume of the
old box. A real triumph of industrial design, quite aside from the
hardware and software.
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