TP-LINK TL-WR841ND Wireless N300 Router $19.99 + Free Shipping at Newegg

Quote from enigma4321 : How this is compare to other deal posted? http://slickdeals.net/f/5887732-R...newegg-com

Dead deal.

Quote from eibgrad : Why? Virtually every wifi enabled device and appliance is only 2.4GHz anyway. Yeah, 5Ghz is fine if you're talking about a desktop, but few manufacturers offer 5GHz capable devices (HDTVs, internet radios, wifi-enabled thermostats, you name it). Even some high end products like the Apple iPhone, iPod, and iPad (at least the older versions) don't provide 5GHz access. So while I agree in principle that 5GHz offers an advantage, it's one that few can enjoy. For all practical purposes, 2.4GHz remains dominant and impossible to avoid no matter how much you'd like to consider 5GHz.

Time to throw away the Pentium 300 buddy...and also time to discard those cached pages you are reading. Its 2013.

I been having this Tplink for 1-1/2 yrs still going strong with stock firmware. in the beginning i changed to ddwrt for an access point but it didn't work, my Ver. is 7.2, now for the access point i been using Dlink 601 in ddwrt.

Quote from thelatest2008 : Time to throw away the Pentium 300 buddy...and also time to discard those cached pages you are reading. Its 2013.

Well whaddayaknow, FP! Somehow those luddites @ SD didn't get the message either.

FYI, lots of ppl don't have interference issues. 2.4GHz works beautifully for them. In fact, 5GHz would actually be a downgrade due to the decrease in range. A $20 2.4GHz wireless N router suits them just fine.

Plenty of other deals to be had on DD-WRT capable routers.

Quote from sggrant323 : Plenty of other deals to be had on DD-WRT capable routers.

I have been waiting for one for a few weeks & nothing cheap seems to of come up..

Quote from thelatest2008 : Time to throw away the Pentium 300 buddy...and also time to discard those cached pages you are reading. Its 2013.

Nothing wrong with Pentium II 300 MHz. I am running 12 TB RAID5 NAS on Pentium II 233 MHz, (with MMX, yo!) and it is faster or at least on par with most retail (consumer level) NAS you can buy today.

It was essentially free (except the cost of hard drives). Just had to add a $20 PCI-to-SATA controller, and a $10 Gigabit NIC.

How does this router compare to Netgear N150 WNR1000? Just bought it yesterday from Target for $37.xx after tax and haven't opened yet.

PS: Basic internet user, not interested in dd-wrt and other techie stuff.

Bait & switch warning. I'm guessing that TP-Link did the same for this as for their WR841N model.

They recently switched manufacturers / internals for these routers. All the good feedback is for their 'old' models. Here's a comment that sums it up :

Cons: I ordered several of TL-WR841N and The TL-WR740N well before Thanksgiving sold a couple of them and ordered more for Black Friday one of my customer came back saying it didn't work so I swapped it with a new one and the same thing, so I called TP-Link and they walked me thru 8 of them and they were all dead.

Other Thoughts: I noticed that the color of the plastic was a different color and that the wan port was on the other side. So that tells me that they have changed manufactures to save money. That's to bad cause I would pay more for a good product and less headaches. Will have find other company, but I will watch for the reviews to go back up hopefully.

I received mine yesterday, and thought that it had openwrt support:

http://wiki.openwrt.org/toh/tp-link/tl-db120

So I reflashed it with the "openwrt-ar71xx-generic-tl-wr841n-v8-jffs2-factory.bin" firmware.

Now I have a brick!

When it rebooted, the ethernet ports and WLAN are no longer working, so I cannot access the admin webpage to put back the original firmware.

Does anyone have any suggestions on how I might be able to unbrick it? (Maybe some type of recovery mode?)

Thank you in advance.

In for one. Wish it had gigabit ethernet, but I'll survive. I really didn't feel like spending over $20 as this will be my 3rd router on my network

Quote from eibgrad : Quote from steelincable : OK price, but I'd caution folks on buying any N product that doesn't operate in the 5Ghz band. Why? Virtually every wifi enabled device and appliance is only 2.4GHz anyway. Yeah, 5Ghz is fine if you're talking about a desktop, but few manufacturers offer 5GHz capable devices (HDTVs, internet radios, wifi-enabled thermostats, you name it). Even some high end products like the Apple iPhone, iPod, and iPad (at least the older versions) don't provide 5GHz access. So while I agree in principle that 5GHz offers an advantage, it's one that few can enjoy. For all practical purposes, 2.4GHz remains dominant and impossible to avoid no matter how much you'd like to consider 5GHz.

Would this be good in a high emf area? Typical routers don't work well because of all the electrical noise in my area-power plant near.

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OpenWrt available for v8.1 (and other versions), including codel support to reduce bufferbloat.

Quote from alicia454 : I received mine yesterday, and thought that it had openwrt support: http://wiki.openwrt.org/toh/tp-link/tl-db120 So I reflashed it with the "openwrt-ar71xx-generic-tl-wr841n-v8-jffs2-factory.bin" firmware. Now I have a brick! When it rebooted, the ethernet ports and WLAN are no longer working, so I cannot access the admin webpage to put back the original firmware. Does anyone have any suggestions on how I might be able to unbrick it? (Maybe some type of recovery mode?) Thank you in advance.

Use the OpenWrt failsafe mode. Ask in the OpenWrt forums for more help. You used the more or less correct firmware, but I would recommend the SquashFS version.

Quote from alicia454 : I received mine yesterday, and thought that it had openwrt support: http://wiki.openwrt.org/toh/tp-link/tl-db120 So I reflashed it with the "openwrt-ar71xx-generic-tl-wr841n-v8-jffs2-factory.bin" firmware. Now I have a brick! When it rebooted, the ethernet ports and WLAN are no longer working, so I cannot access the admin webpage to put back the original firmware. Does anyone have any suggestions on how I might be able to unbrick it? (Maybe some type of recovery mode?) Thank you in advance.

Did you try wireless? It's probably a goner, but see if there's wireless AP signal you can connect to.

I would also see if you can at least ping it, just to see if it has any life at all.

Finally, it has been possible to de-brick some Linksys routers w/ appropriate tools (and some luck), but I don't know what you can expect for TP-Link. At least I would Google and see if you can find any other advice.

http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/unbr...ys-router/