TP-LINK TL-WR1043ND Ultimate Wireless N300 Gigabit Router w/ USB Port & DD-WRT Support $25 after $20 rebate + Free Shipping

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Amazon says its no longer available at that price.

yea, it wasn't going to last at that price. it's an awsome router with a huge fan base.

wow this is pretty cheap for a dd-wrt router

Just bumped to 51.95 pre-rebate

just bumped to 51.95 pre-rebate

yep had it in my cart...now 51.95

No longer available from Amazon, hence the price bump from 3rd party sellers.

That sucks. Amazon deals seem to fade faster than any other slick deals posted here. Thanks to op for the effort (repped).

I have one quick question for techies here.
I have a Time Warner cable modem SURFboard SBG6580 but time Warner is charging me the rental fee so I am deciding to get rid of their modem.
I bought Zoom Cable Modem and from my previous Verizon I have a D-Link DSL-2750B Wireless Modem/Router.
My question is do I need to purchase any other router like this one or I can use Cable Modem plus D-link router modem as Wireless Router?
If not then I will buy this.
Any suggestion SDers?

Shame I missed it, needed one.

Quote from mma123 : I have one for around 1 and 1/2 years. I installed DD-WRT right away, but my experience was not good -- dropped wireless connections, problem with b+g mode. Recently, I installed OpenWRT and am happy with the performance. For me, DD-WRT interface was more intuitive, OpenWRT is not. I will need to spend some time to learn about it.

I've have mine for close to 2 years and had the exact same experience (DD-WRT was actually worse than the factory firmware). There was an awfully long thread dedicated to this router, but it was filled with problems and very few solutions. I'm sure that one of the main reasons there was limited support for this router (at least back then) was because it's a bit of an off brand with a less popular chip running it. I see that some people like you tried out other open firmware solutions but unless you're a power user with a lot of programming knowledge, why bother? The headaches associated with messing around with that crap is too time consuming for the average user. Before any of you decide to flash the firmware to a 3rd party one, give the latest TP-Link firmware a shot. It's been rock solid for me (doesn't drop connections and never have to reboot the thing).

One negative that I have for this thing is that anyone should just forget about the damn USB port. It's going to be way too slow for any kind of networked backups/sharing (I'm talking something in the ballpark of 2-3MB/sec slow). When I researched it a while back, it seems like it was more of a limitation of the hardware rather than the firmware. I haven't been router "shopping" in quite a while, but I'm guessing that many of the newer ones have much better USB transfer speeds. Just something to consider if some of you are after a router with USB ports.

Edit: I was a little curious about how long ago I actually bought this thing so I checked my Newegg order history; Dec 2010 for $48.42. Even older than I thought. The good; it's still going strong. The bad; this certainly isn't the latest and greatest (I don't think that it was even that new back when I got it). Some of the other TP-Link router deals that have popped up lately may be a little better even if they cost slightly more.

better then Linksys E3000?

back in stock. ordered 1.

Quote from Prince01 : I have one quick question for techies here. I have a Time Warner cable modem SURFboard SBG6580 but time Warner is charging me the rental fee so I am deciding to get rid of their modem. I bought Zoom Cable Modem and from my previous Verizon I have a D-Link DSL-2750B Wireless Modem/Router. My question is do I need to purchase any other router like this one or I can use Cable Modem plus D-link router modem as Wireless Router? If not then I will buy this. Any suggestion SDers?

You probably need to buy a new one but it wouldn't hurt trying to add the routes manually.
I had an old linksys that did that although it was dsl.