ASUS RT-N10P Wireless N150 Router 802.11B/G/N

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Provided all information for rebate. In rejection email they provided photocopies of info I provided. I double checked the copied information and it was complete and clear. They said it was incomplete or illegible. I have complained to the rebate company and Asus. A google search turned up a lot of people being rejected. Just don't expect getting yours.

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its a basic router that provides wifi for basic usage scenarios. dont expect exceptional streaming performance

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I had a hassle with my November mail-in rebate getting declined for a mismatched UPC, but was able to cleared it up by calling in to the rebate center. Hopefully this won't be an issue for those using the December rebate.

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The range on this is better than the Linksys E900 I have. However, it only has 1 antenna so it's wireless repeating abilities is much weaker than the E900. However, it is also supported by Tomato and DD-WRT which is the main reason I bought it on sale during Boxing week.

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I found the ASUS RT-N10P router on sale for $25.99 with free shipping, and couldn't resist. Some of the new Linux firmware builds are now supporting this router so I figured to give it a try. Not having gigabit ports is OK, as my house already has switched gigabit ethernet throughout and the wireless N is quite sufficient for the various mobile devices on my 10Mbps internet connection. I put the router behind my TV where the ethernet ports can plug directly into the xbox 360, Blu-Ray player, media player, and remainder of the network. I don't need USB on my router, as I already have networked storage and a networked printer. This router having 8MB flash and 300MHz CPU comes in handy for running the Tomato firmware with extra features.Upgraded to Tomato Shibby tomato-K26-1.28.RT-N5x-MIPSR2-116-Max firmware directly via TFTP as the Asus Firmware Restoration utility did not seem to work for me.Administration Configuration select  Erase NVRAM for a fresh start and recover any available NVRAM.The Status Overview did not correctly indicate which ports were being used, but Basic Network settings with checkbox for Invert Ports Order solved that minor detail.I may use the VPN or IPV6 or other features at a later date but for now I am ready to copy over the settings from my existing router.Based on previous results with other ASUS routers (WL-520gU, RT-N12) and Linux firmware installed (DD-WRT and Tomato), I am expecting good things from this router.

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For the price, this is quite a nice router - and I'm comparing it to an ASUS RT-N66U...The speed is not bad at all. I did extensive testing with iperf (simultaneous bidirectional test) to see what this is capable of and in close proximity, it manages 40 Mbps. Coverage does extend throughout my small house and the minimum speed was 11 Mbps at -60 dB RSSI. Slow but usable, even for moderate streaming.It has the same features as other ASUS routers since they all use ASUSWRT firmware based on OpenWrt. That includes multiple SSIDs with different access levels, QoS, VPN, WDS, access restrictions, repeater mode, AP mode - it's extremely full-featured and it's available on ASUS' lowest-cost router. The only features it lacks compared to more expensive models is anything dealing with 5 GHz or USB (printing, file sharing, cloud storage) because it does not have either of these hardware components.It's a basic router and does not have gigabit ports, dual-band wireless, USB or MIMO - it's just a single radio supporting 150 Mbps 2.4 GHz 802.11n using 40 MHz channels. Of course since it's unlikely that anyone will be able to run 40 MHz channels if there are any competing 2.4 GHz networks, clients will connect at 72 Mbps maximum sync rate, with about 40 Mbps usable after overhead as I indicated earlier.Cosmetically it's just about identical to my ASUS RT-N66U - this is ASUS' standardized design. It's a little bit smaller and the LEDs under the translucent case are round green rather than square blue like on the RT-N66U. It has a full complement of LEDs, one for each port, one for wireless, one for power and one for WPS - other manufacturers have eliminated many LEDs but thankfully not ASUS. It sports an impressively large 5 dBi external non-replaceable antenna, larger than the antennas on my RT-N66U. Since there's only one radio, there's only one antenna.It runs almost imperceptibly warm at the centre of the case - I am assuming this is where the Broadcom SoC is. This is a nice change over the RT-N66U which runs very hot.My main reason for getting this was to run it as a wireless bridge. In order to do that, it requires alternative firmware as the WDS functionality in the default firmware halves bandwidth and requires either an open or WEP-secured network. Tomato (Shibby) runs perfectly on this. It can only be loaded in emergency firmware restore mode with the ASUS firmware flashing utility though. Obviously Tomato adds even more functionality, but it was the wireless bridge functionality I was interested in. I enabled it and tested 42 Mbps bridged at the remote location - full speed. It's a lot faster than an old Linksys WRT54G I had performing the same function at the same location, which tested at 24 Mbps. Plus it gets a g device off the network, which is always beneficial on an n network.I'm extremely pleased with this little router, both as a router and as a bridge.