Linksys WRT310N Ultra RangePlus: our new top pick wireless router

Wednesday August 20, 2008

Written by Dave Stephenson

Tags: Linksys | WRT310N

$154

Price at time of review.

With its futuristic design, the WRT310N could live just as happily in your front room as it could next to your PC – at just 34mm high it’s easy to hide. If you already have an ADSL modem, this is the pefect wireless router companion.

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There’s no integrated ADSL hardware, but its performance more than makes up for it. It’s draft-N compliant, and in an environment with a few other wireless networks, some dividing walls and plenty of interference-causing electrical equipment, transferring 100MB of large files took 1:50 – an impressive rate of just over 19Mb/sec with the Intel Intel 4965AGN wireless adapter in our Core 2 test notebook.

Linksys simplifies the process of setting up by including its Lela (Linksys EasyLink Advisor) software in the box, which is a godsend for anxious first-timers.

Advanced users will be perfectly comfortable with the WRT310N’s logically-laid out and well-presented web server, though. It lacks a few bells and whistles, but the rest of the WRT310N’s features are solid. MAC address spoofing and support for Dynamic DNS plus an SPI firewall and plenty of internet filtering settings allow you a good deal of network control.

The WRT310N is fast, well-featured, and $53 cheaper than the D-Link RangeBooster DIR-655, which it deservingly replaces on the A List.

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