ASUS RT-N16 Multi-Functional Gigabit Wireless-N Router with Storage, Printer, & Media Server

Comments about ASUS RT-N16 Multi-Functional Gigabit Wireless-N Router with Storage, Printer, & Media Server:

I use in a vpn and work very good

Comments about ASUS RT-N16 Multi-Functional Gigabit Wireless-N Router with Storage, Printer, & Media Server:

My home now has a network thanks to RT-N16. It is streaming my videos wirelessly from my PC to TV through my LG Smart TV Upgrader. Set up was easy but with little knowlegde on networks, i can't change/use some of the features and the manual provided does help much. I guess i need a geek.

Comments about ASUS RT-N16 Multi-Functional Gigabit Wireless-N Router with Storage, Printer, & Media Server:

"Out of the box" impression: Great hardware, horrid software. This thing is ginormous, so make sure you have space. It's plug and play and will let you enjoy the increased speed benefits of 802.11n (with the appropriate 802.11n adapters). However, a big benefit to this router is the ability to theoretically connect ANY USB printer and have the ability to print to it from your network. My Samsung CLP-300 was recognized but every print job I sent took about 10 minutes to process and ended up wasting paper because it kept printing garbage.

So, it didn't take me long to install TOMATOUSB on this thing. ASUS has a lot to learn with writing firmware. They need to concentrate more on writing software that works instead of software that looks pretty. The GUI is great, but I'd gladly take the simplicity of TOMATO's interface to ASUS's animated GUI.

Before TOMATOUSB:
Wireless connection speeds with a PC approximately three feet away maxed out at 144Mbps. Rosewill 802.11n adapter (300Mbps max).
Range was no better than my Linksys WRT54G (loaded with TOMATO also)
My Samsung CLP-300 was a brick.

After TOMATOUSB:
Wireless connection speeds maxed out at 300Mbps.
Range effectively tripled - I can move about my house without dropping one wifi signal "wave" on my ipad.
My Samsung CLP-300 is NOW a fully functioning network printer.

It's absolutely disappointing that this router was being held back by ASUS' firmware. Only after installing TOMATOUSB does this router become a PHENOMENAL buy.

Comments about ASUS RT-N16 Multi-Functional Gigabit Wireless-N Router with Storage, Printer, & Media Server:

Let me help you out, use TomatoUSB firmware on this device! Many of the features on it just work, unlike DDWRT, and the web interface is much speedier and easy to use! I have an external hard drive attached with Optware installed on it. Not a chance I will be going back to DDWRT. Wireless signal is very strong, I can pick it up on my iPhone4 about 200-250ft from my house.

Comments about ASUS RT-N16 Multi-Functional Gigabit Wireless-N Router with Storage, Printer, & Media Server:

Disclaimer: 15 year IT guy who purchased this on the advice of a Datacenter NOC Team Lead for a beefy SOHO solution. Great router. The default interface isn't awful, but when flashed with the DD-WRT version, this router is thru the roof!! Setup is a piece of cake, and this router handles video streaming, HDTV (Netflix, Hulu), and VOIP (GVoice and Ooma) with ease! [...] I've only had this for a week, but I will come back to add CONs if I find some.

Comments about ASUS RT-N16 Multi-Functional Gigabit Wireless-N Router with Storage, Printer, & Media Server:

My first WLAN setup. This product was a breeze to setup, just plugged it in and it set itself up. Never had to go through network wizard. Never read the owners manual until after. It provides fast dependable communication. It is as good or better than my previous LAN setup. Now I can spread devices out and not be crowded near the computer. Setting up printers was easy also. However, the part where you temporarily connect the the printer to a usb port during the wireless setup would not work when I used the usb port on the router, I had to use the usb port on the computer. But once setup the printer worked fine wireless.

Comments about ASUS RT-N16 Multi-Functional Gigabit Wireless-N Router with Storage, Printer, & Media Server:

this router is working fast web pages fast, print and scanner work hd share work but slow ,torrents and gigabit is work just in the first setup can,t setup easy

Comments about ASUS RT-N16 Multi-Functional Gigabit Wireless-N Router with Storage, Printer, & Media Server:

This is a great router. It easily loads the custom tomato firmware (tomatousb.org), which means that I now have a media server (thanks to the external hard drive I've attached), print server for my USB printer (thanks to the two USB ports) and the ability to adjust the power of the transmitter.

Using the tomato firmware, I bumped up the transmitter power and now have connectivity everywhere in my two-story house.

I have to admit, I never even turned on the router with the included software. Right out of the box I loaded tomato, and I haven't looked back. I now have a $500 router for less than $90!

It's doing well so far. The only feature I haven't figured out so far is how to set up the rsync server so that I can set up my wife's laptop to automatically back up to the hard drive attached to the router.

Comments about ASUS RT-N16 Multi-Functional Gigabit Wireless-N Router with Storage, Printer, & Media Server:

I bought Asus RT-N16 based on its hardware spec, like Gigabite Ethernet, powerful CPU, 128MB RAM/32MB flash and the most important thing, i.e. be able to run DDWRT and Tomato. It did work with Asus latest firmware. But my family complains the jerky playing of Youtube after I enabled its EzQoS. Well, I switched to TomatoUSB and now everything is working as expected. Tomato QoS is powerful. I connected a 2.5" hard drive to one of the USB ports and it became a file server (throughput is about 5MB/sec like everyone said). I installed transmission and then it became a download manager for BT. It runs cool and works like a charm. Too bad Asus firmware is not good enough.

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The router itself is great... it would have been nice to be able to use my printer, though.

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Most of the TV I watch in the evenings is HD movies from Netflix so I wanted to upgrade my wireless G router to improve the performance. I also wanted to hook my printer directly to the home network to simplify the access to it from any of our three workstations and I wanted to improve the range so I could take my laptop to the basement to work. The RT-N16 has performed great in every respect!
I do recommend updating the firmware before installing a printer on the router's USB port. You can download the current firmware from the company website and it is a very simple procedure. I do think the documentation could have been a bit more explicit, but it is no worse that the typical documentation that is provided with most technical products.

Comments about ASUS RT-N16 Multi-Functional Gigabit Wireless-N Router with Storage, Printer, & Media Server:

easy to use.

Comments about ASUS RT-N16 Multi-Functional Gigabit Wireless-N Router with Storage, Printer, & Media Server:

I use the router as both wired and wireless, as a print server and with external USB drive attached. After several hours of tweaking stock firmware with less than satisfactory results, I concluded that I needed to try the Tomato USB open source firmware. I spent several hours climbing the learning curve and now have a superior router that I'm happy with.

Comments about ASUS RT-N16 Multi-Functional Gigabit Wireless-N Router with Storage, Printer, & Media Server:

I could notice a speed increase in load times on web pages, maybe due to large memory cache. I downloaded tomato-K26USB-1.28.9052MIPSR2-beta23-Ext.rar firmware and installed it after seeing many people complaining about firmware that came with it. I first tried dd-wrt, but it just seemed too complicated. The wireless range/signal was very good, unlike my wrt610n. I previously could not have reliable results with linksys wrt610n to my blu-ray player. Thinking it might be an issue with LG BD590 blu-ray player, I got a linksys wrt160n wireless bridge so I could connect blu-ray player with cat5 cable from bridge, rather than wireless. The wrt610n wouldn't connect well with it's own wrt160n wireless bridge around 30 feet away. Since linksys merged with cisco, I have found their support less than helpful. I've used linksys products for years and been happy, but this problem was a showstopper and they were not helpful at all.

There's two things that don't effect me with asus router, that could be problematic for some. There is no 5.0 Mhz broadcast and there's no push button one step wireless security. The 1080p wireless streaming is flawless unlike the linksys wrt610n, so I really don't care about this routers shortcomings.

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Using this as home router between Internet and LAN with 3 wired and 1-2 wireless connections.Should have bought this router long ago! I own 3 Netgear routers and a D-Link router, have also owned LinkSys. This Asus RT-N16 blows them all away. I have 100Mbps Internet and finally the throughput is very near rated speed. Other routers were lucky to maintain 40-50Mbps, and they often dropped connections during large downloads. I have always purchased Netgear, D-Link, and Linksys on their trusted name. Not anymore.Plugged my HP DeskJet 5740 into one of the RT-N16 USB ports - and it JUST WORKED! Nothing to load or configure.Even the latest Asus FW and interface works great, and I haven't even tried DD-WRT or Tomato yet.I buy some of my PC gear from [...], but the selection and prices here at B&H keeps getting better. [...]***** Five EGGS for the ASUS RT-N16!********** Ten EGGS for B&H!

Comments about ASUS RT-N16 Multi-Functional Gigabit Wireless-N Router with Storage, Printer, & Media Server:

The product works great as advertised. The 1 GB/s ports are fast (took 3 roughly 2 minutes to transfer over 6 gigs of data)... Wireless is fast too....

Interface gives a quick glance at all of the devices attached. Set up is a breeze

Comments about ASUS RT-N16 Multi-Functional Gigabit Wireless-N Router with Storage, Printer, & Media Server:

This is my primary/only home router now hard-wired to two Windows Vista computers and used by two wireless laptops. This router is fast and has very good range. I also have my basic canon $30 printer connected to it printing wirelessly. And one more USB drive I am planning on using for a RAID1 USB enclosure (w/ 2 intenal drives) to use as a NAS.

Pros:
-Price!
-Expandability - use as print server and NAS device.
-speed and range.
-features! in GUI for example - ability to allocate speed to certain computers (my work laptop takes priority over my wife's mac).

Cons-
There may be some features missing that can be had using another firmware (i.e. ddwrt or tomato), but I haven't found them.

Comments about ASUS RT-N16 Multi-Functional Gigabit Wireless-N Router with Storage, Printer, & Media Server:

Used as a router for my LAN, I also intend to set it up as a media server. For the most part it is easy to set up, although the toughest problem I had was setting the residential gateway that I had as a bridge to this router. It is important to note that a modem is required for internet connectivity. Only I expected my range to increase over the residential gateway, and it really hasn't.

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We replaced an old netgear router with this Asus router. What a difference. Much faster network and internet access for both our wired desktops and our wireless laptops. It was a bit difficult to get setup, but once setup it has been very stable.

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Picked up this router last week because it has some of the best specs (RAM, Flash, CPU Speed) of any home routers out there. It took less than 5 minutes to slap on the latest DDWRT and had it up and running with my old config. The only downside may be a very slight loss of WiFi signal from my previous Linksys Router.