Thanks much OP. I just bought one.

Yikes, was excited until I saw the number of bad reviews at Newegg (my "red flag" level is when 25% or greater of the reviews are 3 eggs or less. This product has 52%. Ouch). Which begs the question: Does a reasonably affordable wireless N router with consistently good reviews even exist? Apparently not. I guess this is what happens when companies hurriedly shove out all this pre-N/draft stuff before the final standard is solidified.

Spooon69 said:This is the only dual-band router in town, which you'll need if you have an xbox/ps3/wii (which are only b/g) and also want to use draft-n (say w/ a laptop or another router). Also, this one will actually work with dd-wrt, it's a work in progress right now, only a matter of time, I'd guess a couple/few weeks, if not already in the nightly release.

Not true. The WRT600N is also a dual radio/dual band Linksys router and despite the OPs claim the WRT600N was not replaced by the WRT610N. Those are two totally different Linksys products intended for different customer markets. The WRT610N is the POS product Linksys released to compete with the low cost Netgear and D-Link Draft N routers that quickly flooded the market. It is poorly designed and built and does not technically adhere to Draft N. On the other hand the WRT600N is a stable Draft N router with a SOLID firmware which has yet to need to be upgraded from its initial release. The WRT600N also does not use the crappy Chinese made MOSFETs that plague the WRT610N and is the number cause of the WRT610Ns frequent radio failures. The WRT600N is a complete redesign of the WRT350N which is yet another POS product Linksys released.

cnIsfg said:Spooon69 said:This is the only dual-band router in town, which you'll need if you have an xbox/ps3/wii (which are only b/g) and also want to use draft-n (say w/ a laptop or another router). Also, this one will actually work with dd-wrt, it's a work in progress right now, only a matter of time, I'd guess a couple/few weeks, if not already in the nightly release.

Not true. The WRT600N is also a dual radio/dual band Linksys router and despite the OPs claim the WRT600N was not replaced by the WRT610N. Those are two totally different Linksys products intended for different customer markets. The WRT610N is the POS product Linksys released to compete with the low cost Netgear and D-Link Draft N routers that quickly flooded the market. It is poorly designed and built and does not technically adhere to Draft N. On the other hand the WRT600N is a stable Draft N router with a SOLID firmware which has yet to need to be upgraded from its initial release. The WRT600N also does not use the crappy Chinese made MOSFETs that plague the WRT610N and is the number cause of the WRT610Ns frequent radio failures. The WRT600N is a complete redesign of the WRT350N which is yet another POS product Linksys released.So basically we have your posting here in a "Hot Deals" forum versus the review linked to above which found performance to be comparable. I'll go with the professional review. But go ahead and post your credentials if you please.

I have the WRT600N, and it is quite problematic despite what you say. (I count you among those sorts of consumers who get something, spend a lot on it, then defend it as superior no-matter-what only to avoid the "emotional" regret that technology continues to pass you by.) Not only is the Wireless-B/Wireless-G performance despicable (i.e., they skimped on that half of the radios), but the NAS implementation is proven almost worthless. If you go to the Linksys Forums, you will find countless complaints about how poor the USB port deals with network storage -- basically, it's useful for thumb drives and that's about it.

It is 100% false to say that there's no need for a firmware update, and it's laughable that Linksys hasn't made one since February or so.

I've moved along to DD-WRT, which is still plagued with problems (for the WRT600N). In any event, the conventional wisdom holds here that you should go with the newest product, and yes, I know from the inside, the WRT610N was deployed to replace the WRT600N. The fact that you can still get a WRT600N today doesn't prove otherwise. You are guilty of Filene's Basement logic.