TP-Link N600 Wireless Wi-Fi Dual Band Router (TL-WDR3600)

I bought this router, due to the fact the price was very reasonable, especially with all the little functionality built-in to it.* Wireless Dual Band* Gigabit ports* two USB ports for printers, hard drives, et ceteraFirst off, I had no trouble getting this working with my broadband I had recently install a few days prior. Nice easy setup, and nice GUI interface to configure the router the way you want it. I am still looking to do some more tweaking on it, but not a rush. Just remember, you may want to "clone" it to your broadband router or PC which is the original piece of equipment, configured to your broadband account.I have had this for about a month or just under a month, and it is really running great! It does not get very hot to the touch neither!I have used both bands of wireless for this device, but I have noticed, that if you have an older piece of equipment, it does not seem to recognize the 5.0 GHz band. My cell phone recognizes it, but my laptop, Xbox, and PS3 do not. My cell phone is only a couple months old, while the rest of my devices are easily, 2 years old each. So, the 5.0 GHz looks to be a great option if you have very to pretty new equipment to recognize this wireless broadband. This makes me happy that I did not get the upgraded router to this one, which does the 450 MB wireless connectivity for 5.0 GHz. This particular model does the 300 MB wireless 5.0 GHz, and I suggest this one if your wireless equipment is more than 3 to 6 months old currently.I have not used the USB ports yet, but have used the 2.4 GHz wireless connection for laptop, PS3, and a wireless laser printer, and works totally fine.I have hard wired my desktop, Internet phone, satellite, and Xbox 360 to the Gigabit ports, and these babies are FLOWING and MOVING... without any trouble, and not getting and issue with multiple devices using wireless & hard wired ports.So, this product is very good for the money, just note that your current equipment may not see the 5.0 GHz, due to the age of your equipment in use. You'll have to check your equipment manuals to verify if it handles the 5.0 GHz wireless.Hope this helps a bit.Regards.

Replaced my older Linksys with DD-WRT firmware that was dying a slow hardware malfunctioning death. For half of the price of the mainstream name brand products, this thing kicks some serious bum. It took a little bit of a learning curve to figure out the not so intuitive interface, but all in all the stoick firmware is full of some really decent features. The lights on front are a bit much too, but I don't care much about those. The device functioned very well right out of the box after setup. My cable internet speeds leveled out at max and barely wavered on all of my tests. I also got this device for the USBs...there are two of them. The one thing that I found VERY NICE about the media sharing capabilities is that it does have the ability to network share an external hardrive with more than one partition...which some older/other routers have issues with. In fact I think it can properly NAS an HDD with up to 7 if my memory serves correctly.Either way, I've been using this router for a few weeks now and have seen no issues. Aside from that, I'll update my review if anything happens in the long run.**UPDATE - after a few months of use a new firmware was released which fixed a few issues I was starting to see. The only remaining issue that I've noticed is when both 2.4 and 5 GHz bands are enabled the router has a difficult time booting and/or functioning at times. It may take a few reboots to get the wireless to come up with both enabled and I'm not certain why. Also, even though the router allows you to name both bands the same for wireless, name them differently, otherwise you will have issues with the wireless functionality.

he TP-LINK TL-WDR3600 Wireless N600 Dual Band Router is a solid budget dual band router. It's identical to the WDR4300 except for having two antennas instead of three, and topping out at 300Mbps on the 5Ghz band instead of 450Mbps. The WDR3600 is full featured with both dual band wireless b/g/n support and has good range in the 2.4Ghz band. Range in the 5Ghz band is adequate but generally inferior to more advanced routers with beam forming schemes and other 5Ghz signal enhancing technology. It has guest networks in both bands, IPv6 support for most ISPs (more about that later), is highly configurable, and has gigabit LAN ports, a built in media server and two USB 2.0 ports.The only complaint I have had is that the TP-LINK engineers cannot seem to get traction working with Comcast/XFINITY IPv6 in the USA. TP-LINK routers like the WDR3600 have suffered chronic problems coping with Comcast's IPv6 implementation. For the longest time TP-LINK routers just could not seem to acquire or keep a Comcast IPv6 gateway. It seems to be a unique situation with Comcast's technical deployment. Although TP-LINK has issued several router firmware updates which have tried to address the Comcast IPv6 issue, sort of, the fixes have been neither stable or lasting, so far, as of October 2015. Recent updates "fixed it". But the routers seem to still drop IPv6 gateway and delegation after a few days and not automatically reacquire it. Linksys and D-LINK, for whatever reason, seem to get it, whatever "it" is, about how Comcast is using IPv6. No Comcast problems with Linksys or D-LINK. So, all my otherwise positive comments about the TP-LINK WDR3600 should be balanced against this single issue for Comcast customers.In fairness to the TP-LINK engineering department these kinds of problems more often than not result from the engineering staffs for router companies being located in China, not in the US or Europe. So they are therefore unable to directly connect their equipment to US cable modem and other ISPs for testing or compatibility trouble shooting. They are designing to standards but testing in a theoretical rather than real world environment. Therefore there can be a long lag time between when users start complaining of problems and the staffs in China can figure out what is going on in the US. But the problems do seem to get solved eventually. Nevertheless, Comcast IPv6 seems to baffle the TP-LINK firmware team to date.From a price/performance, interface and styling standpoint the TP-LINK TL-WDR3600 Wireless N600 Dual Band Router is a good choice and value for connection to ISPs other than Comcast and, if TP-LINK can ever figure out the Comcast IPv6 puzzle, for Comcast as well. The difficulty in reviewing a wireless router is that there are so any variables in each person's use environment -- size of house or apartment, what the walls between rooms are made out of, how far away the router is from the device being used, how many other wireless routers are nearby competing for the same channel and bandwidth, etc. One person may buy a router and say "Best router ever! I love it!" and another may buy the same router and say "It sucks! Piece of junk!". There's no free lunch when it comes to high end router performance. But there are good budget choices and the WDR3600 is a good value in its price range.