• Reviews around wifi (3.35 of 5)

    Linksys WRT54GL Wi-Fi Wireless-G Broadband Router

    • Best wifi ever
    • Even then this router has slower wifi.
    • the wifi just works
    • Rebooting resolves it, but who wants to have to do that EVERY DAY?The moronic web interface also FORCES you to create some stupid centralized "smart wifi linksys" account on their servers
    • I'm getting good wifi all over my 2000 sf home
    • This wifi frequently fails and the router frequently reboots, even with the most current firmware
    • I also really like the smart WiFi features that allow me to log into the router from anywhere
    • Awesome wifi router
    • and it's THE BEST wifi
    • I would suggest creating a linksys smart wifi account to manage this router remotely and also install the app as well
    • Pros:fast wifi out the box setup on factory firmware
    • Awesome wifi signal throughout our 10,000 sqft
    • DD-WRT is also no solution as no reliable wifi driver exists for this device at the moment
    • I can now get reliable WiFi all over my 3000 sq ft house and even through most of my 1.5 acre.
    • pay high price and get slow wifi.
    • The smart wifi app is great, coverage seems fine
    • It never buffers and the wifi is always topped out.
    • Further "smart wifi" is a significant security risk and the steps to
    • Best Wifi unit period
    • I have it on a 1300 sq ft apartment with very good coverage and blazing fast wifi
    • I mean it work and provides good wifi connection, but really, do you want something this insecure with core features protecting the outer edge of your home network?
    • Poor wifi coverage, my old $35 Mi Router 3 (AC dual band) performed way better in terms of wifi stability and strength
    • I am not getting great wifi at my home from this unit - in fact, I had an older COX supplied combo wifi modem and that worked the same or BETTER
    • dd-wrt and openwrt have wifi issues as well
    • The router works fantastically, plenty of customization options, and the smart wifi online access thing is pretty useful
    • Great router with convenient smart Wifi portal.
    • Strong wifi
    • Fast, utterly simple to set up, great ios app; and most of all, reliable wifi that covers your entire house.
    • An error message is displayed: "unexpected error communicating with linksys smart wifi"
    • I ordered it on July 11 and the wireless network was horrible and I had to restart the router several times a day to get decent Wifi
    • I have a 2500 square foot two story house and was having trouble getting solid WiFi upstairs when watching Netflix in my room
    • Amazing and effortless wifi
    • This model of router has been around a long time.i purchased this to use as an access point only for area of the house that had bad wifi reception
    • still working on setup, but we have much better wifi in the house since switching to this - huge buffer bloat problem before is mostly gone.
    • WiFi is horribly unreliable
    • Excellent wifi coverage on 2.4 and 5 gHz
    • Even my range to receive a solid wifi signal has increased.
    • My WiFi was pretty bad
    • I am now unable to login using my smart wifi account via this mess and need to use the local login
    • Works great, super fast and strong wifi connection, secure.
    • Works great, super fast and strong wifi connection, secure.
    • Using their Smart WIFI Network Map noticed our phones (Samsung Galaxy s5 from Sprint) are logged on at 5ghz although sometimes find they drop down to 2.4 ghz
    • The smart wifi app is useful to manage access
    • Easy setup and follow-up customization with the Linksys Smart WiFi App
    • my wifi is two times faster than it was!
    • WiFi on the laptop is more reliable
    • Wifi service works well, when it is working.
    • Linksys membership smart-wifi log in, or auto-anything-easy-quick config by default
    • 2.4gh to 5ghz depending of distance in order to keep an amazing cover!Easy as usual to setup and the smart wifi app make it nice to access from anywhere!Get it!
    • Very easy to set-up and have no issues with the product...great WiFi every where in my house.
    • Despite the fact that Linksys advertises "Developed for use with OpenWrt" and "Open source ready with OpenWrt" on their website, this router's wifi is not even capable of reliably giving a wifi connection using OpenWrt 18.06.1
    • I have a 2500 square foot two story house and was having trouble getting solid WiFi upstairs when watching Netflix in my room
    • Very nice WiFi device
    • As the essential function of router, I need a stable wifi with internet connection
    • 5G WiFi quit working after two weeks.
    • This router has good range makes my wifi nice and fast
    • the Linksys Smart Wifi app
    • dd-wrt and openwrt have wifi issues as well
    • I loved it, it really boosted our WiFi
    • Great router and strong wifi
    • Guest wifi easy to setup.esata and usb are easy to use to setup your nas.dual firmware partitionseasy to use customisable widget based home pagecool blinking status LEDS in the
    • and I got a stable WIFI signal and the streaming of
    • Then after that was fixed the WiFi became super slow
    • It too is a Linksys Smart Wifi router and is also easy to set up and configure.
    • During outages, troubleshooting led to me deleting the smart WiFi app, haven't reinstalled it since connectivity has improved, but I will, I like the remote permissions capability.
    • I should be able to disable WiFi to any device on the router by the parental controls.
    • Only trouble I had, and I should have figured out what the problem was myself, was when trying to logon to Linksys’ Smart WIFI
    • The first AC3200 I bought was defective, dropping wifi and losing saved settings from the router periodically
    • the wifi becomes unstable
    • but I have a “bad WiFi router box”
    • Solid wifi range (5GHz will reach the far part of the house, about 50', through a massive brick wall and 2 plaster walls).
    • It has always needed rebooting on average about once a week whenever the WiFi gets slow or erratic
    • An amazing router with incredible WiFi range
    • We hahad this in our home for a number of years and our wifi is great
    • Strong reliable signal, fast WiFi, with no issues
    • After looking at all of the smart wifi options, Orbi, Velop, amongst many others, I decided I didn't want to spend a small fortune on a router.
    • Rebooting resolves it, but who wants to have to do that EVERY DAY?The moronic web interface also FORCES you to create some stupid centralized "smart wifi linksys" account on their servers
    • I would recommend this as a good wifi to handle the traffic for such a system
    • I really enjoy Linksys Smart WiFi app, which gives me complete control of settings and network access from my phone
    • Easy to Setup, great wifi range, Cannot go wrong with this device
    • This router has slower wifi speeds than my previous routers
    • After 3 months, the WiFi dies
    • The smart WiFi app allows for easy management of the router settings
    • Highly unstable wifi - every few days, it decides to drop wireless connections, requiring a reboot to fix.
    • Easy to setup, fast and reliable WiFi, looks good
    • Easy to setup, easy to manage from the "Smart WiFi" app, no issues at all.
    • Only reason to even upgraded from Cisco e3000 was to get more range/faster WiFi D/L speed when upstairs in house and in backyard.
    • No wifi dropouts
    • Great WiFi switched from an ac1200 and speed more than doubled
    • Awesome and super fast WIFI.
    • 5Ghz has been fine but started losing 2.4Ghz signal after 1-yr of use ... not just dropped signal or bad WiFi throughput, the 2.4Ghz turns completely off.
    • After a few months wifi started going down and sometimes the whole router crashes
    • After having this router for barely two months, the dreaded wifi drops have begun
    • Would use openwrt or ddwrt but a specific component of source code has not been released by linksys so the wifi on those firmware would not be great
    • It was pretty decent until the wifi became nearly unusable after a couple years
    • Very fast Wifi
    • Once I received the router and started looking closer at exactly which firmware to download, I found that there were numerous complaints about buggy WiFi.
    • Just google "wrt1900 slow wifi" and read about the issues people are having
    • I used a old portable Wifi AP (not available on Amazon; Zonet ZSR4174WE) to add a "b" connection to work around.
    • The wifi will not work with OpenWRT/DD-WRT.
    • Further "smart wifi" is a significant security risk and the steps to
    • While this device has good wifi
    • Within a month I had issues with losing all wifi
    • The WRT3200ACM is easy to setup and configure through the Linksys smart WiFi utility as well as the Linksys app.
    • Awesome WiFi Router.
    • After changing 8 routers, finally Linksys WRT AC 3200 completely solved all my problems of seamless wifi connectivity in my house
    • Returning item due to intermittent WiFi failures and high probability the 5 GHz channel is not working at all.
    • 5GHz Wifi doesn't work with macbook, too ascetic interface
    • Easy to setup, easy to manage from the "Smart WiFi" app, no issues at all.
    • Strong wifi range !
    • Amazing I was able to install DDWRT open source firmware within 15 minutes of opening the box
    • but i personally unsuccessful and 5 linksys agents were also
    • Amazing I was able to install DDWRT open source firmware within 15 minutes of opening the box
    • but i personally unsuccessful and 5 linksys agents were also