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Archer C5400 delivers combined Tri-Band Wi-Fi speeds to 5334Mbps, establishing a network that can connect more devices without slowing down.
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If you only want Wi-Fi then it's good
on May 5, 2017
Posted by: RichardFitzwell
Verified Purchase:Yes
Ease of setup, it works for wireless as specified. As far as any other functions like storage sharing, it really lacks functionality. I managed to connect to it two 4TB drives. It recognized them. Forget about setting any accounts on this router for file and drive access management. You got one account and that's it. File management is non existent. Once the drives start to fill up the router bogs down, utilization goes to 99% and after two minutes it reboots. And what function did I use? I opened a directory on the hard disk in a mapped network drive on my windows PC to browse 356 files which were ripped MP3's.
Anything beyond basic wireless this router fails to do. I had this router for two weeks. I returned it for refund. This much money for basic wifi is too much. It does have a great wifi range. That's about it. I bought it because of the reviews. I made sure I had the latest firmware on it. It was the latest and it was over a year old from 2016. This router is not open platform, meaning you are dependent on the manufacturer for updates.
It has a Broadcom chipset. I worked for Broadcom for over 15 years and it is not the chipset issue but poor quality firmware. I wouldn't recommend it to my friends or anyone unless they just want to plug it in and never do anything advanced. But then why buy such an "advanced" and expensive router? I went back to my old router, bought wifi extender, put my drives on a 9 dollar C.H.I.P computer running Linux, and shared my drives through it over the network. Instead of the router slow file access of 24MB/S I get now over 80MB/s. Don't buy it. The company charges a lot but offers over a year old firmware with basic functionalities and buggy too. You can verify this by going on their site and look for updates. There's none. I will never buy routers from that company.
Best Buy was great and took the return. Thank you Best Buy.
Anything beyond basic wireless this router fails to do. I had this router for two weeks. I returned it for refund. This much money for basic wifi is too much. It does have a great wifi range. That's about it. I bought it because of the reviews. I made sure I had the latest firmware on it. It was the latest and it was over a year old from 2016. This router is not open platform, meaning you are dependent on the manufacturer for updates.
It has a Broadcom chipset. I worked for Broadcom for over 15 years and it is not the chipset issue but poor quality firmware. I wouldn't recommend it to my friends or anyone unless they just want to plug it in and never do anything advanced. But then why buy such an "advanced" and expensive router? I went back to my old router, bought wifi extender, put my drives on a 9 dollar C.H.I.P computer running Linux, and shared my drives through it over the network. Instead of the router slow file access of 24MB/S I get now over 80MB/s. Don't buy it. The company charges a lot but offers over a year old firmware with basic functionalities and buggy too. You can verify this by going on their site and look for updates. There's none. I will never buy routers from that company.
Best Buy was great and took the return. Thank you Best Buy.
My Best Buy number: 0412921955
My Best Buy number: 0412921955
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No, I would not recommend this to a friend.
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