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Garbage Time. Go for 610n or D-Link If you need it
I've gone through two of them. The first one had the dreaded "setup timeout" problem which numerous other people have reported on the Linksys forums where neither IE or FF will allow you to login and go through the setup without significant timeouts. Next one I had wouldn't connect via the wireless, even with an hour and change worth of time with Linksys. They finally offered to ship me one directly from their warehouse. Told them forget it. This has now been replaced with the 610N model (after just a few months) which has more RAM. If you're worried about the lack of antennas on the 610N don't be - you weren't getting much from the NONREPLACEABLE antennas on the 600N. What junk and "style over substance" that Linksys is going with now. I even looked at D-Link but their dual N gigabit router is going for a lot more money for now, if you can find it. But it DOES have 3 replaceable antennas. If you need/want dual radios, the 610N is the cheapest route to go at present. But don't buy this dud. It's got a limited lifespan for support too.

Need tech support to make it work properly
It is a great router, but initially is hard to get it set up. Need tech support, and it takes a while to get through. Once you get the help you need, it works smoothly. The range for the wireless portion does not reach the performance they talk about.

Great Replacement
I was looking for a replacement router that would not limit my speed to the slowest machine. This was it. I have it configure so the slower machines are on the 2.5 Ghz band and my faster machines are on the 5 Ghz band at the same time. It did take an hour to set up. I would recommend this router to anyone with multiple demands.

Overall a Good Router
Overall I have to say that this router, being the first wireless router I've bought, does exceptionally well. While the price is a bit much as of this writing, you get what you pay for, in this case a wireless router that lets 802.11g cards enjoy the most they can while the 802.11n cards can perform to their uttermost potential. Using the setup from the Linksys CD made setting up the router painless and a breeze, but at the end of the setup, it told me that it had not recognized or found any internet connection. This was quickly resolved when I went to Linksys' support site, which gave clear and concise instructions as to what to do to resolve the issue, so if you do come up to problems using this router, don't hesitate to go to Linksys's website first to see if the problem to your issue is there (it was for me). After this issue was resolved, I was able to set up the network further through a web browser. Granted, the standard user may not know what all to configure here, but I am sure that a Google search or a look at Linksys's website would give them clear directions as to what to do. I am overall satisfied with the product and completely recommend it to those who have some computers with 802.11n cards and some with 802.11g cards. I look forward to buy another Linksys wireless router in the near future.

Great Wireless Connectivty, Limited Storage Link Capability
I've had this router for several days, and generally am pleased with the wireless connectivity, using Wireless-N to my laptop (HP Pavilion with built-in Wireless-N card) Speeds have varied from 108 Mbps to 270 Mbps, sitting about 30 feet away from the router in another room. However, I am VERY disappointed in the Storage Link implementation, thinking that this would provide a Network Attached Storage solution without having to buy one of the expensive NAS boxes. If you are thinking like me about NAS, this is NOT the solution!!! Most of the reviews on this site don't go into much detail on the Storage Link feature, so I just bought this thing figuring I could make it work the way I wanted. Big mistake! Here are the details:
1. Router firmware version 1.0.36 Build 4 (one release up from what is currently on Linksys' web site.
2. Connected Western Digital My Book 750GB USB 2.0 external drive, first formatted via computer to NTFS, and then plugged in to the router's USB port.
3. Got everything set up properly including shared folders on external drive, user access, permissions, etc, and mapped network drives on laptop (Vista Home Premium) and desktop (XP Home) computers, so far so good.
4. Attempted (twice) a drive image backup of laptop using StorageCraft ShadowProtect Desktop 3.2 (latest release). Backup completed (44GB), and I could see the file on the external network drive, but file was corrupt and failed verification.
5. After much research, decided to re-format the external network drive using the router's formatting capability. Discovered that router will only format using FAT32, but proceeded anyhow, and again successfully set up shared folders, user access, permissions, etc.
6. Since FAT32 will not address files larger than 4 GB, decided to abandon a drive image backup, so tried a files-and-folders backup from the laptop using Genie Backup Manager Home 8.0. This was successful as long as I didn't try to back up so many files and folders that the resulting file was larger than 4GB.
7. Also copied individual files and folders over to external drive with no problem, but had to exclude a video file that was slightly larger than 4 GB.
8. Re-formatted the external network drive to NTFS again using the computer, and tried another files-and-folders backup from the laptop using Genie, this time purposely selecting enough files to push the backup file size over 4 GB. This should have worked since the drive was formatted to NTFS, but the backup failed twice.

Conclusion: Storage Link implementation only allows basic capability to move files and folders less than 4 GB in size due to it's FAT32 format limitation, and is totally unsuitable for using automated backup software to backup large numbers of files or do drive imaging to the network drive. So if all you want to do is move files manually to the network drive, and don't have any huge files larger than 4 GB, and don't care about automated backups, then Storage Link seems to work OK. However, IMHO, this is WAY too limiting, and does not even come close to a NAS solution. I'm returning my router today, because it is hard to tell when a firmware upgrade might be released that would remove these serious limitations. There are cheaper Wireless-N routers out there without this Storage Link (non)capability.