Vizio XWR100 Dual-Band HD Video and Wireless Internet Router
Ξ September 6th, 2010 | → 0 Comments | ∇ Geek, Wireless |
I’ve been waiting for prices to drop on the dual-band wireless routers and today the price was right for a Vizio XWR100 Dual-Band HD Video and Wireless Internet Router. At Sams Club it was selling for US$69.98, which was less than half the price of the Cisco 3000 I had been eyeballing. Granted the XWR100 has 4-10/100MB ports, whereas the 3000 has 10/100/1000MB ports, but then I have a separate managed Gigabit switch for my servers. I’ll keep the old WRT54G with DD-WRT for a spare and test this Vizio unit at home for a bit. Setup was brainless, the unit only comes with a power adapter, a 1.5′ Ethernet cable, and a two page setup guide, which is mostly pictures anyway. It has a USB 2.0 port for external storage that I have yet to test. Time will tell how this device performs, but for the price I couldn’t leave the store without one.
UPDATE_20101203: So far, so good. The routers USB port works and presents an external hard drive as a share. Connectivity to the connected hard drive isn’t as fast as to my server, but it would work as a central storage location for a small network. The 5.8GHz network is being used for streaming video from my server to a couple rooms and that is also working fine, whereas before a room to room video stream was disrupted when an internet download was started. Overall, I’m happy with this router and feel that it was a good purchase.
