My Linksys E3000 from last year only lasted several months before it started to loose connection randomly, likely cause it ran so warm. And seriously, who the hell makes a router were the status LED's don't blink to indicated traffic activity. 1ceTr0n - Tuesday, link Yeah, i've tried a netgear 3700N and 3800 premium routers and I just was not impressed at all.

In addition, the shipping firmware doesn't include beamforming, but will enable it in a software update soon after launch. This is exactly the combination that we suspected for the devices, but now have confirmed them with Netgear. The R6200 moves one tier down to the BCM4518 for 2x2:2 on 2.4 GHz, and a BCM4352 for 2-stream 802.11ac. Inside the R6300 is a BCM4706 for routing and 2.4 GHz 3x3:3, alongside the expected BCM4360 802.11ac 3-stream controller. Update: We asked for more details about the SoC and WLAN controllers inside both the R6x00 series, and learned exactly what we wanted to know. Netgear expects the rest of the products to be available on store shelves by the end of the week. The R6300 will be available on online retailers starting tomorrow. I'm told that Broadcom has a future USB 3.0 802.11ac solution for those wanting to see higher transfer rates not clamped by USB 2.0. It's unfortunate the adapter isn't USB 3.0, given USB 2.0's 480 Mbps theoretical throughput limit, however BCM43526 only has a USB 2.0 host interface onboard. The USB 2.0 adapter is built around Broadcom's BCM43526 solution. Although MiniPCI Express 802.11ac adapters are coming for notebooks, those wishing to upgrade devices immediately can use the A6200 two-stream USB 2.0 adapter.

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