Asus RT-N16 review

You say - only short range performance lets it down. How about a lack of a modem too? I was rather excited about this product until I read of this fundamental weakness.

By paulfurleymellor on 17 Sep 2009

And where are they on sale?

Where in the UK can you buy this. I blew up my old trusty KCorp this morning and need to get hold of this asap.

The awful white colour nothwithstanding this would be perfect for me.

By octaglider on 25 Nov 2009

AVAILABILITY!!

This would also be perfect for - and I'll install it behind a bookcase, so the appearance is irrelevant.

- but I can't find one!

Several internet searches have only come back with international deliveries and they are either in a language I can't read, out of stock or "we don't do international deliveries yet".

If PC PRO got a £90 (with VAT) price when they reviewed it, who was the supplier?

By stew_ozone on 16 Dec 2009

AVAILABILITY!!

This would also be perfect for - and I'll install it behind a bookcase, so the appearance is irrelevant.

- but I can't find one!

Several internet searches have only come back with international deliveries and they are either in a language I can't read, out of stock or "we don't do international deliveries yet".

If PC PRO got a £90 (with VAT) price when they reviewed it, who was the supplier?

By stew_ozone on 16 Dec 2009

AVAILABILITY!!

This would also be perfect for - and I'll install it behind a bookcase, so the appearance is irrelevant.

- but I can't find one!

Several internet searches have only come back with international deliveries and they are either in a language I can't read, out of stock or "we don't do international deliveries yet".

If PC PRO got a £90 (with VAT) price when they reviewed it, who was the supplier?

By stew_ozone on 16 Dec 2009

Be VERY wary. I bought one and....

I bought one of these from overseas because of the PCPro review which seemed to be supported elsewhere.

I have posted the following on various forums with little success so far. What I have discovered is that the 'wrong IP setting' message (see below) and broken connection runs right across the Asus range:

I have a D-Link 320T ADSL modem which ran into my KCorp 108 G router very happily. Reliable and as fast as I'm likely to get (6.5Mbps).

However, I bought an Asus RT-N16 router because of its facilities, N specification and reviews. I've set up a variety of modems, routers and modem/routers and though it should all be plain sailing especially given the excellent web interface of the RT-N16.

The RT-N16 offers various settings including Dynamic IP, PPPoE, Static IP and a few others. The only settings to work are 'Dynamic' (which was the way my old router worked) and the 'Static IP' setting. It also tells me that "You have set the wrong dynamic or static IP address" when I have it set to 'Dynamic IP'. (?!?!)

However my connection 'speed' has dropped to a steady 0.5Mbps with either of these settings. If I switch back to my old router the speed immediately increases back up to 6.5Mbps

Either there's something I'm missing OR the firmware is seriously faulty.

Is anyone able to offer any pointers? Should I just return the router, especially when I see the problems people seem to experience with Asus routers.

By octaglider on 21 Dec 2009

Half-bridge PPPoA U@K DSL connection

@octaglider

The D-Link 320T has a strange implementation of a half-bridge mode called ZipB, this does cause a number of routers problems as it passes the WAN IP as the Gateway. You can only use static IP if your WAN IP is static, surprised it worked at all rather than at slow speed.

It may be worth upgrading your 320T firmware, D-Link did improve it, but watch out there may be lots of differrent versions with same name.

By mstombs on 10 Jan 2010

This device does not have any Upnp Media Server

I own this RT-16 thingy and it doesnt come with a Upnp Server.
Did you ever test the stuff you get?!
What i've said is proof, and can be found here:
http://bit.ly/59aruQ

By fnord on 6 Feb 2010