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Linksys WRT160N Ultra RangePlus Wireless-N Broadband Router | 
| Brand: Linksys
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Rating:  122 reviews
Sales Rank: 94
Media: Electronics
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Batteries Included: No
Shipping Weight (lbs): 4
Dimensions (in): 0.1 x 0 x 0.1
nv:Device Type: Wireless Router
Form Factor: Desktop
Wireless Network Standards: IEEE 802.11g
Wireless Network Standards: IEEE 802.11b
Wireless Network Standards: IEEE 802.11n
Wireless Data Transfer Rates: 300 Mbps
Wireless Transmit Power: 17 dBm
Security Protocols: WPA
Security Protocols: 128-bit WEP
Security Protocols: 64-bit WEP
Security Protocols: WPA2
Networking Standards: IEEE 802.3ab Gigabit Ethernet
Networking Standards: IEEE 802.3 Ethernet 10Base-T
Warranty: 1 year warranty
MPN: WRT160N
Model: WRT160N
UPC: 745883582983
EAN: 0745883582983
ASIN: B000Z3U1P6
Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
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| Features:
| • | Internet-sharing Router and 4-port Switch, with a built in speed and range enhanced Wireless Access Point | | • | MIMO technology uses multiple radios to create a robust signal that travels farther and reduces dead spots | | • | Much faster than Wireless-G, but also works great with Wireless-G and -B devices | | • | Wireless signals protected by wireless encryption, and your network protected from Internet attacks by a powerful SPI firewall |
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Product Description
The Ultra RangePlus Wireless-N Broadband Router is really three devices in one package. There's the Wireless Access Point, which lets you connect to the network without wires. There's also a built-in 4-port full-duplex 10/100 Switch to connect your wired-Ethernet devices together. The Router function ties it all together and lets your whole network share a high-speed cable or DSL Internet connection. The Access Point built into the Router uses the very latest wireless networking technology. By overlaying the signals of multiple radios, Wireless-N's Multiple In, Multiple Out (MIMO) technology multiplies the effective data rate. The robust signal travels farther, maintaining wireless connections much farther than standard Wireless-G. Wireless-N can dynamically enable double-speed mode for Wireless-N devices, while still connecting to other wireless devices at their respective fastest speeds. In congested areas, the Good Neighbor mode ensures that the Router checks for other wireless devices in the area before gobbling up the radio band. To help protect your data and privacy, the Router can encode all wireless transmissions with industrial-strength 256-bit encryption. It can serve as your network's DHCP Server, has a powerful SPI firewall to protect your PCs against intruders and most known Internet attacks, and supports VPN pass-through. Configuration is a snap with the web browser-based configuration utility. The incredible speed of Wireless-N makes it ideal for media-centric applications like streaming video, gaming, and Voice over IP telephony, and gives you plenty of headroom to run multiple media-intense data streams through the network at the same time, with no degradation in performance. With the Linksys Wireless-N Broadband Router at the center of your home or office network, you can share a high-speed Internet connection, files, printers, and multi-player games, and run media-intensive applications at incredi
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| Customer Reviews: Read 117 more reviews...
 Fixed all my problems March 5, 2008
M. Delaney (Woodbridge, VA USA)
68 out of 73 found this review helpful
FINALLY! A router that fixes all of the problems I was having. My old router, a D-Link Draft N had trouble connecting wirelessly with my Dell Laptop and my MacBook Pro. (Draft-N routhers don't all conform to the same standards.) It did work with my iMac wirelessly and it did OK with my wired connections.
So, I decided to tey an Apple Airport Extreme. It worked with all my wireless devices, but supprisingly did not do well passing HD TV Shows from my Media Center PC to my Xbox 360 over a wire!
So, after much research I decided to try this Linksys. Since it just hit the market, I figured it would have better Draft-N support.
So, with minimal configuration, this routher works with ALL my devices:
(I have it setup with WPA/WPA2 Wireless security.)
MacBook Pro (Draft-N Wireless)
Dell Vostro Laptop (Draft-N)
Apple iMAc (Draft-N)
Apple iPod Touch (Whatever wireless it uses...)
AppleTV (Wireless)
Nintendo Wii (Wireless)
2 Wired Windows PCs
Playstation 3 (Wired)
Xbox 360 (Wired)
Plus it has no trouble passing the HD TV shows from my Windows Media Center PC to my Xbox360.
Beautiful looking and easiest set-up ever! March 12, 2008
Martin (Tucson, AZ)
47 out of 49 found this review helpful
I noticed a lot of so so reviews and was wary until I read a professional review praising it's easy set up. I decided to go for it and boy am I glad I did. I happen to be a novice setting up PC related stuff but this router was cake to set up. Be forwarned; however, my intention was to simply set up wireless with encryption and nothing else. I had no desire to set up a full blown network with file and printer sharing. I simply wanted encrypted wireless for my xp windows pc and vista windows laptop in the house. I figure I can print stuff by using the pc with the printer or using a flash drive so I had no desire in oversteaping my technical boundries.
That being said... it was as simple as putting the disk in, following directions printing the encryption code and connecting the router. Easy as cake! I had more trouble configuring the recieving vista windows laptop and xp windows pc! Which wasn't that hard either. The router is connected to my windows vista desktop and my windows vista laptop and seperate xp windows desktop are recieving the signal. It was as easy as plugging in the code to the recieving laptop and pc.
The signal is always strong and no breaks in three weeks of constant use. Despite other comments, the signal strength is awesome even with the unit under a shelf. Unless you live in a 25 room mansion or set up the network wrong... you should have no problems. I have absolutely no complaints. The cherry on top is how awesome this router looks and with no antenna! You could easly hide this under a shelf but why would you want to! It's beautiful and you could use it as decoration! I admit, it is pricey but well worth the money in the headaches you will save setting it up and the aesthetic factor. Highly recommended especially for novices who simply want wireless in their house.
 Works fine with Mac May 2, 2008
Terrell Smith (Madison, WI United States)
23 out of 24 found this review helpful
For years, we have been happy users of a Netgear MR314 wireless router. But it didn't reach the farthest corner of our home. In looking at various routers, I found many mixed reviews for the newer Netgear routers, so decided to try the Linksys WRT160N. We use almost nothing but Macs in our home.
Setup: Forget the included CD that comes with this router, it is Windows only. It does have the User Guide as a PDF buried in one of the folders. But it is not much help.
Instead, just turn on the router, look for the wireless signal (or plug in directly using an ethernet cable), then use FireFox - the current Safari doesn't work and any changes cause a "server unexpectedly dropped connection" error.
Type: 192.168.1.1 in the browser, then user name "linksys" and password "admin" to get the web based setup menus.
From there, if you have any questions, click on the "Help" link for the individual pages. The help there is much better than in the User Guide.
This router does reach the far corner of our house, and is able to use WPA, etc.
I would have given the router 5 stars if the documentation had been better, and if the Mac had been included. (Even though it's really really simple to set up the Mac for wireless, it's still nice to be recognized.)
Linksys WRT160N Ultra March 12, 2008
M. Stokman (North CA)
22 out of 22 found this review helpful
Overview - We are on AT&T DSL running the Elite broadband which is 3-6 Mbps. Our average speed is running 5+ Mbps here in the office and that is with Vonage VoIP phones (6 lines) and 4 laptops
We just hooked up the the Linksys WRT160N Ultra RangePlus Wireless-N router in our new office onto 3 Dell laptops and 1 LG laptop. After the intial install on all the laptops running Windows XP Pro, we had only one minor glitch and that is a firmware upgrade needed on the Intel Wireless 4985 card on one of the Dells. It will not run currently on the Intel Pro Wireless card, everything G and below works fine. But it does run on Windows Wireless configuration just fine. We are all averaging 80 - 140 Mbps depending on how much load is on the line with the phones and broadband activity.
I can not speak for the range of the unit yet since the office is only 1300 sq feet and we just hooked up the router, but I'm approximately 40 ft away with no problems. I'm so impressed how quick this is, I think I will go junk my Linksys Wireless G router and go buy another one of these for my home (Comcast Cable and Comcast Digital Phone which is also VoIP) just for the performance and good looks with the antennae now built in.
Last thought, as I read these reviews people seem to bash the router when in fact typically it is the computer configuration or the wireless card that is at fault for not having the lastest firmware installed or the hardware not working. Another potential problem is if your system is standard broadband (CAT5 cable) this is the router you need. If you purchase the GIGABIT router and do not have the bandwidth or CAT6 cable, you may possibly get impeded results.
 Good but not enough - poor VPN support April 22, 2008
CheapWhine (Saratoga, CA USA)
22 out of 24 found this review helpful
I have used wireless networking at work for quite a while but had put off installing it at home for security reasons. With a few new gadgets that could take advantage of new high speed capabilities, I decided to jump in and ordered a WRT160N to replace my existing Linksys wired router.
The wireless router showed up very quickly on my doorstep. I unpacked it and was very impressed with the small size and the good looks. I appreciate technology, but I like the style of this unit since it does not appear to be an alien space craft.
Loading the CD and following the instructions, I had it up and running in just a few minutes. My new laptop connected wirelessly very quickly and a few simple firewall updates had the system running the existing wired network, the laptop and even my Blackberry Curve using the WPA2 Personal security encoding with minimal hassle or delay. Connection speed was 130 Mbs and I was able to get a signal at the far end of the house. Subsequent connections had no problems either. I was impressed.
As I mentioned, I was connecting my laptop from work to the system. My employer is security conscious, so we use a VPN every time we connect from outside our building. The WRT160N connected using the VPN without a problem. However, part of the WPA security protocol is the concept of changing the encryption key on a regular basis. The sender and receiver are supposed to exchange the new key and then continue on seamlessly. Unfortunately, the router dropped the internet connection every time the key changed. This was a pain, especially when doing big file transfers when the connection was dropped. The dropped connection cannot be reconnected until I went through the whole VPN authentication routine again, which gave me another hour or less if I didn't manually re-connect right away.
I set to the key resynchronization interval to different times (very easy to do in the router control panel) and confirmed this was the cause. My family also noticed some weird browser lockups that had not occurred before installing the router (or after replacing it).
I contacted Linksys technical support about this issue. First, I will say that I was very impressed with the support person I spoke with. They responded very quickly, were knowledgeable about their product and very helpful. They seemed very friendly too. Unfortunately, they told me that dropping the internet connection when changing keys was a known problem with the WRT160N. I suppose these things happen (don't the developers try this with their Cisco/Linksys laptop at night?), so I inquired about a firmware patch. Unfortunately, there is no patch scheduled at this point. They suggested using WEP, but I noted that their own manual stated that WEP encryption was easily broken, not secure and not recommended. There was no push-back on this.
I discussed the situation with the support person, and they recommended that I return the unit. So I did...I took it to the post office this morning.
In honesty, the support provided was about the best I have ever. The symptoms were quickly understood, problem was identified, a possible solution was proposed and an honest recommendation was made in a matter of minutes. They even sent me a complete transcript of the exchange. I was very impressed with the support team, especially compared to some other high-tech products.
I wanted to like this unit and never have to think about it again (because it was just doing its job). Installation was fast and easy, it looked good, and it connected well. Support was top notch. However, dropping the connection all the time is not acceptable. I consider this very normal usage (certainly not an exotic application) that should not happen. I am back to the wired router. It is working, but I am disappointed with the WRT160N.
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