Amped Wireless High Power Wireless-N 600mW Gigabit Router (R10000G)

It is so easy to set up and the range is the best. With other brands, D-LINK in particular, I always had a low signal. Only 50 feet away, straight shot with nothing in the way, no walls, doors, etc. and only got 3 bars at best using an external antenna both on the computer and the router. With this brand I now use just the rubber duck antenna and 5 full bars of signal. No more unsightly external antenna in the house. Covers my back yard and every square inch of my property. .2 of an acre lot. my computer in my shed in my backyard now sees signal at 5 full bars whereas before I got zip,nada,nothing. Why a computer in my shed ? Well that is where all of my Ham gear is. being able to send a confirmation of the call is now quick and easy.Their support on the other hand is not so hot. This unit is too new that the tech has not had a chance to play with one yet. I guess the manufacturer does not train the techs on new product. I had a question about port forwarding and he could not tell me what i needed to know let alone know under which menu it was located.Fortunatly the techs at Sorense video relay helped. My wife is deaf and I have to make sure her video phone works with the router or it is a no go.10 minutes later we had it up and running just fine. For those of you with this issue the unit is fine. For those of you without, no bother.Later i measured the output of my old D-LINK and the AMPED WIRELESS. 50 milliwats and 580 millwatts respectivley. Not much power really but a bit over a half a watt made a big difference for me. It has all the necesarry bits and pcs. WPA WPA2 WEP etc. External PBC makes it very easy when you having to set up a DVD machine, TV, etc. No more having to enter in the password into these type of devices and we all know how much of a pain that can be using the supplied remote control. External. so no having to get into the router menu. Sweet.08/09/12 UPDATE. It is still working and without a hiccup. I have not had to reboot it once as I have had to do with others. I have truly forgoten about it as it works seamlessly and without notice. It is like my system is wired. This company is leding the pack in this area and the other companies have not even tried to catch up yet. They do not understand the threat to their business this thing is giving them. this router is definatlly worth every penny and then some. It is really set and forget

I'm a nerd with dead spots in my house, and - because this is a real quality of life issue - I went out and spent a ridiculous amount to get three top of the line routers: a  Cisco-Linksys E4200 Dual-Band Wireless-N Router , and an  ASUS RT-N66U Dual-Band Wireless-N900 Gigabit Router , and set them side by side. While this is definitely a decent router, I am likely sticking with the Asus as my primary router. This is either destined for Ebay, or is going to one of my less technical friends/family.I used both Amped Wireless's own Android application and a program called InSSIDer 2.0 to measure the actual signal strength observed by my laptop while in my basement office. I used speedtest.net to measure speed. In terms of signal strength on the 2.4Ghz spectrum, the Amped Wireless R10000G had a Relative Signal Strength almost identical to the  Cisco-Linksys E4200 Dual-Band Wireless-N Router  and the  ASUS RT-N66U Dual-Band Wireless-N900 Gigabit Router .Setup: Setup is ridiculously easy and you can very easily see the company's stress on making things idiot proof. They even plug in ethernet cables for you to connect to your cable modem. (This isn't just done to make it idiot proof. They also do this to try and ensure the ethernet cables are plugged in *before* the antenna; a note indicates that damage could result otherwise. Also, the supplied ethernet cables have slightly smaller termination elements which makes for n easier fit than the  Cables To Go 27153 Cat6 550 Mhz Snagless Patch Cable, Black (10 Feet)  cables I had lying around, further reducing risk to the antennae.)Customer Service: One of the big things that interested me about the Amped Wireless proposition was this concept of ELITE Customer Support. I found mixed results. After receiving the unit and having some problems, I reached out to customer service but got very slow responses. After getting fed up, I wrote to the CEO by looking him up on LinkedIn and then got premier service. The CS reps identified that my router's memory had gotten corrupted during a firmware upgrade and I swapped out the device. I was impressed at the level of service I eventually received, but was very frustrated that I had to go to such lengths.Signal: The signal in my basement, according to Amped Wireless' Android application, was about 65 DBm. This matched almost exactly to the signal of the other two routers. This whole business of 900Mbps routers is a nice idea, but my cable company tells me I'm getting only 50Mbps up and down, so most of that is wasted. (In reality, I'm lucky if I get 10 down and 3 up.) This might be much stronger than some $20 router, but from my point of view, it was nothing special, and a bit of a letdown. While I did get signal all through the house, the signal was so weak in parts as to be nearly unusable (<1Mbps down, 100Kbs up). My basement is about 25 feet away from the ground-floor router, with the entire home being 50 feet long and 3000 square feet. As these things go, it's on the larger side of homes in the neighborhood, but is dwarfed the McMansions.Other technicals:- The lack of 5Ghz signal didn't really bother me that much because my experience has been that 5Ghz yields high speeds at close range. Since I was buying the device to get signal all over a large house,- The DoS prevention was a nice bonus and discovered that I was apparently the target of a lot of port scanning.- I had issues with the port forwarding. While from outside of the network, I could get in through port N, if I was actually inside the network, I couldn't access my router's public face.[Update 4/7]Responding to a comment below, what threw me over the edge to rank the ASUS #1, Cisco #2, and the Amped #3? It was close (especially for the Silver & Bronze), but it was mostly because while the Amped was going through the RMA process to get working hardware, the ASUS came off of backorder and worked well. I started out this process frustrated with my Cisco's frequent lockups, which had in turn replaced an older Netgear. By the time the Amped came back, I was a happy ASUS customer already.Some additional thoughts: 1) The Cisco e4200 has this nasty habit of locking up and forcing me to power cycle it. 2) The Amped and the ASUS both have external directional antennae which can theoretically be replaced by bigger and/or powered antennae. 3) The Cisco and ASUS both easily offer the ability to set up a network storage server by just plugging in a USB. That's really useful. 4) The port forwarding on the Amped, even if it worked, doesn't do port translation. Incoming requests on port 8090 can't then be NATted to port 80. If you listen to port 80 externally, you have to listen to port 80 internally. Cisco and ASUS both offer port translation, and the ASUS has the ability to support a VPN, which is even more secure. (I never even checked the Cisco for VPN support.) 5) The Amped Wireless tech just strikes me as a bit immature. I was willing to look past this if I really got superior signal, but with identical signal, the shine really came off quite quickly. As an example, the Web UI and the fact that it makes you save and reboot constantly. Also, this only supports 300N whereas the ASUS supports 900N (my cable company only gives me 50MB/s max, so this isn't that relevant to overall speed, but does give an indication as to the tech). Since the R10000G came back, I tried setting it up at my parents' and found that I had difficulty connecting to the network. Still haven't debugged it. 6) The ASUS offers the ability to act as a repeater/bridge without having to install DD-WRT 7) The Cisco is supported by DD-WRT, which allows me to get over some of the limitations of the proprietary firmware... but calling up Cisco for help is no longer an option. ASUS actively supports the idea of DD-WRT, even though the Dark Knight was not actually supported last time I checked. A DD-WRT implementation does not yet exist for Amped Wireless products, and might help overcome some of their shortcomings.[End Update 4/7][Update 4/28]I have since had success getting streaming speeds in all corners of my house by using  Netgear XAVB5004 Powerline Network Adapter . Powerline had apparently advanced in the years since I last used it. I can generally get 5-10 mbps up and down throughout the house now which isn't great, but good enough. Connecting some cheap wireless N routers gets me decent wireless everywhere.[End Update 4/28][Update 12Oct2012]I've actually thrown out my powerline in favor of  Actiontec Ethernet to Coax Adapter Kit for Homes with Cable TV Service (ECB2500CK01) . the Powerline stuff would occasionally conk out for no apparent reason, which eventually became too frustrating to deal with. The Actiontec takes advantage of the fact that my whole house is wired for Optimum Cable. I get great speeds, and haven't had any drops since it was installed.[End Update 12Oct2012]I hope you enjoyed this review, I tried hard to make it as informative as possible. If you have any questions, or suggestions as to how to improve the review, please don't hestiate to let me know by using the "Comment" button below!