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Avoid this one
This is one to avoid. I’ve tried it on two computers, using it with the companion WRT300N router, and it glitches badly on both computers. The speed is an improvement over Wireless-G, but not much; and the stability is much worse. If anyone in the area turns on a microwave oven, or even if there is other wireless traffic, it goes into instability and has to be reset. Also, about every 30-60 seconds, it grabs the CPU for a couple seconds, causing harsh noise from audio and a second or two total halt of any game being played. In Windows XP it shows the 270 Mbps speed, but doing SiSandara benchmarks the actual throughput is a fraction of that, barely better than the 56 or so Mbps of Wireless-G. In Vista, it simply does not recognize the Wireless-N protocol, and works as a very slow Wireless-G; again confirmed with SiSandra benchmarks. Tech support from Linksys these days is a joke. It is offshore support by very nice, very polite people who don’t know anything that doesn’t pop up in their menus - and more important, who don’t have recourse to someone who can answer the tough questions. I tried chat, phone and email support and got tripe each time. In the past I’ve experienced excellent performance from Linksys products, but it’s like a different company now that Cisco has bought them out, a company to be avoided.