Linksys has introduced a new wireless router designed specifically with streaming media mind. WRT610N is a dual band router that the company claims is better suited for streaming than others.
"There are products on the market that are framed as Dual-Band that allow access to only one band at a time or lose transmission speeds when both bands are in use," said Mani Dhillon, director, Linksys ... [ read the full article ]
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For that price its not that bad actually however if u already have a network that is setup and doing fine i do not think you will need this. I would only go for this only if my router i currently have breaks down.
The way I figure it would be simpler to have a router that supports open source firmware like DD-WRT or Tomato. That way you can configure it to your hearts delight. Granted the supported routers don't use dual band technology. Ask yourself would you really need it if you had an open source supported router and had it configured right? For myself and alot of people probably not.
Some consoles and other products like the Xbox won't work if they are not "approved" by Microsoft. They have the balls to have a list of "approved" routers in their page.....
Microsoft have shares in CISCO, who own linksys. So it should be on a short list. A pity most linksys routers(firmware) are locked down now, ah guess microshaft dont want decent linux firmware on their products anymore!!!!
I have this router for a while now and it's doing very well.
regarding price , take a look at the new linksys e3000 review , it has almost the same features with WRT610n except the wep256 encryption which is not a big deal(most people use wpa2) (here is a full router comparison ).
i don't know why every body do no talk about the new linksys e3000 like they did with wrt610n?
