Cisco Factory Refurbished Linksys E1200 Advanced Wireless-N Router

Cisco Factory Refurbished Linksys E1200 Advanced Wireless-N Router

Product Features and Technical Details

Product Features

• Enjoy the benefits of Wireless-N (802.11n) in your home-ideal for surfing the web, e-mailing and printing wirelessly
• Connect your computers, wireless printers, smartphones and other wireless devices at up to300Mbps transfer speed
• Enjoy broad wireless coverage provided by MIMO antenna technology
• Use four Fast Ethernet (10/100Mbps) ports to directly connect wired devices
• Keep your network protected with customizable security settings, including WPA/WPA2 Personal and SPI firewall protection

Technical Details

• Brand Name: Cisco
• Model: E1200-AP
• Connectivity Technology: wireless
• Network Data Transfer Rate: 300 Megabits Per Second

Customer Reviews

 Ships With Setting Which Destroys Download Speed, 

By 

G. Mueller

After installing this router, my download speed (wireless) went from 15mb/s to 0.5mb/s. After some googling, I found that this router ships with a setting that is enabled, which destroys download speed. After correcting this, download speed increased to 25mb/s. That's why there are so many refurbished units available for purchase. Anyway, do this:
1. Login to your router. If you've never done this, look for instructions that came with your router or do a google search to find the default username and password.
2. Find a page that has QoS settings. For the E1200, you need to click on "Applications & Gaming" and select the "QoS" sub-menu.
3. Disable WMM Support.
4. Click save.

 Could have been good, 

By 

JBryan

Got this router in a few hours ago, initially it seemed to be working fine, when I connected it and setup wireless encryption speeds were holding steady at the expected 58mbps on my network side.
I then connected 3 computers, each with a wireless N router, the first problem I noticed with the router was a signal that was far weaker than I expected, a wi-fi analyzer showed the signal strength to be at 75dbm at less than 30 feet away, after watching it for a while I noticed that the signal strength was fluctuating erratically (to my knowledge there weren't any other nearby wireless devices that could have been causing interference).
I then connected a desktop and tried some online games through the wireless (wireless isn't ideal for gaming, but with a steady connection it is usually sufficient) I noticed that I seemed to be getting an unusual amount of latency, after checking with a few people to confirm that the problem was on my end I started checking pinging the router to monitor communication times between it and my computer, mostly it maintained a good low ping of just a few ms, but a fairly significant number were extremely high, between 1000, and 1200 ms, this happened on multiple network cards while I was pinging the router, I also tried pinging, and running tracert on a few sites I had confirmed were online and would allow pinging (google) the only pings that were dropped, dropped at the router.

Generally I don't have a problem with buying refurbished computer equipment, because it has usually been repaired to like-new specs and can save you a few bucks, this time it doesn't seem to have worked out too well.

If you're willing to take a bet on the router not working to save a few dollars I'd say go for it, otherwise spend a few bucks extra and get a new one or something of a bit better quality.

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