Linksys - AC1750 Dual-Band Wi-Fi Router - Black

Great product for average size home, my home is two story around 2700 sq feet.

I bought one of these in a kit with a range extender a few months back when my primary router decided it was time to fail. If you've read reviews of Linksys' routers, you undoubtedly know that Linksys has a cloud-based feature for controlling your router away from home. I won't rehash about that feature, but it does work pretty well from anywhere that you're connected to the internet. Wired network performance is great, wireless AC performance is great, and wireless N performance is where I expect it to be. Keep in mind that AC1750 is just a number Linksys' marketing department puts on this; it's derived from the AC1300 5GHz theoretical limit and the N450 2.4GHz theoretical limit; I saw around 775mbit/sec on 5GHz and around 130mbit/sec on the 2.4GHz connections. The router was able to keep up with a Google Fiber connection with ease, saturating the connection speed on download after download over direct connections and bittorrent. Both the 2.4GHz and 5GHz range is decent and will give you coverage in a smaller house or any apartment, but don't expect the kind of range you'd get from Linksys' RangeMax line or WRT line, since internal antennas trade off range for style. The USB ports also prove handy for expansion purposes. With a USB 3.0 and a USB 2.0 port, you can easily add storage and wired-only printers to this router that can be shared among all your devices on the network. One other thing about this router is even though Linksys won't advertise it as such, it can be "hacked" easily with alternative firmwares like DD-WRT and Tomato. These alternative firmwares give you additional features that don't come standard with these routers such as VPN endpoint functionality, but they will void your warranty if you install one and the router fails. All in all, the EA6700 is a good value for what it is, made even better if you're not afraid to void your warranty and tinker with it a bit. Even on stock firmware, however, It's definitely an upgrade over what most ISPs give you for a router and worth looking into if you're still using a single-band or older N300 router, as the performance improvements will help your internet experience.

We bought this router because we built our current home with a wall hanging router in mind which, obviously, can't have protruding antennas. It is a 5,740sqft home over two levels and the router must hang on the wall in the upper level in the center of the home. We previously were using a Linksys E3000 router that we purchased quite a while back for our old home. And that router was an upgrade because we had finally gotten hooked up to fiber verses the DSL we did have and it required a faster router. In the new home the E3000 worked very well and the signal even reached our barn that is 300 feet away. However, it finally gave up the ghost and a new router was needed. We researched many routers but we wanted to stay Linksys because that's what we always had. In our search we found that there were only two available that were antenna-less and hung on a wall if wanted. We decided on the AC1750. Now here is where the crunch comes in. It WAS NOT as easy as 1, 2, 3 too hook up nor was it anywhere close to plug and play like the previous two Linksys routers. Although it is advertised that way. I spent 30 minutes with it on my own and had it almost complete when it popped up that I had set a password to get into the modem and it asked for it. The problem is that I DIDN'T set a pass word for access to the interior of the modem. So I tried the one that I had used to setup my Linksys account. Didn't work. Then I tried the one that is listed on the back of the literature (admin) as a default. It didn't work. I tried everything I could think of and none of them worked. So I finally called Linksys AFTER pushing the reset button and making everything original to factory settings. The lady I talked to said "Oh, I can help set it up. It's as easy as 1, 2, 3." Um, no it wasn't. We were on the phone for 43 minutes for her to get it working. However, now that it is working the whole family loves it. It is much faster than the E3000 even though it is now on DSL (We built our new home in a non-fiber area). But this router makes it seem as if we were still on fiber because it is so fast comparatively. The AC1700 works well and flawlessly throughout the 5,740sqft home without a glitch or signal loss. I don't know if I'll still have signal in the barn (which is 300 feet away) but if it is like the E3000 I have no doubts I will. The one thing I don't like about this unit is that it is a "Cloud based" unit and I do know that it can be hacked. I don't like that feature. And Linksys won't mention that to you. But, I like it so well, in fact, that I'm going to order another one today to have on hand for when this one gives up the ghost many years down the road since it appears that no one will be manufacturing wall hanging units.

We have a smaller house (3500sf) and wanted to change from Xfinity owned equipment to our own modem and router. This unit was suggested by the sales person at Best Buy. It was on the cheaper end of routers but he felt it would be fine with the modem I also bought there. It seems to all be working very well Geek Squad installed the units.

had to have one after a power surge, so this one was a quick and cheap replacement that was needed in a hurry, it did what it was suppose to do.

I replaced the cable company’s lousy DLink router with the Linksys and my wifi signal is much better with few dropouts.

Need a better router and this gave more then I needed more distance then the old one

Got this router on sale. Runs great without any issues, highly recommend it.