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Prior to this I had worked with LinkSys products. I would recommend this device to anyone who needs a DSL link that they want to use and not fix. Simply put this device has functioned flawlessly for the past 24 months. This device is head and shoulders above those older devices.
Unless youre a tech savvy buyer, which I am not, do yourself a favor. With the exception of a few momentary "glitches" early on, this unit has performed without incident and I havent looked at it or touched it in the 3 weeks Ive had it. He was right on. 30-45 min on the phone is a lot less time than youll likely spend trying to do this yourself, stumbling through the menus, tabs, codes and "initializing" processes. Great product, and with a little help from my DSL provider (36 min on the phone with AT&T rep, not bad) was a snap to get rolling. I had read an earlier review in which a buyer advised calling the provider for set up straight away, I took that advice. Beautiful, just beautiful.Tip: If you purchase this unit (or any other, for that matter) do yourself a favor and call your service provider to guide you through the setup and registration process.
The distance between the router and laptop is about 60 feet, and the wireless setting is set for 400 mw (which is the maximum). Mozilla 5.0 is faster and more reliable. Sometimes, restarting solves this, but it's a real pain. The router is a piece of junk, and I paid over $[.].
Other wired and wireless routers I had never had this problem. ($[.]. Downloads are problematic -- a 760 MB file may take minutes to over an hour or die with DSL service one below Elite. + postage & handling). Even worst, one internet session supported, a second usually isn't -- you get complaint about URL does not exist. The ethernet seems to work OK, but the wireless is unreliable.
AT&T support was required to configure wireless with WPA. Connection to URLs is slow -- about a minute. When I have the time I'll try a different manufacturer for wired with wireless router. Windows 8 browser is very slow over wireless. AT&T DSL service only supports and sells this wireless router (wired only isn't offered) for new installations. The wireless worked fine the first few days, but lately internet sessions would drop without warning.
2Wire doesn't have support wrt to setup software for Windows 7 OS same for AT&T setup -- you must http to the default gateway address for setup.
This wirless router out performs and is faster for uploading and downloading. The old wireless router which came with our dsl service lasted for about a year. We are completely satisfied and would recomend it's purchase for anyone.
All that was needed was the software to make it run. Thanks Mark the seller. It would make things easier for the buyer and. The sellers should be asked to include a set-up CD. I liked the modem and it works very well. If they don't have one it's not hard to download the software and on to a CD from the isp that was used. I almost sent it back to the seller because of that we both thought something was wrong with it.
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