Great 802.11n router for wired and wifi, July 23, 2012

Western Digital is not new to consumer electronics, they have been making excellent quality products for more than a decade and I have purchased many of their Storage and Home entertainment products before and always pleased with the quality and performance.They are however new to the consumer electronics networking area with their My Net Series of Routers and Storage routers. N900 Dual Band router is just one notch below their which is their top of the line product which boasts an `all-in-one' storage networking solution for home.Here is my review of this product. You can read the relevant sections and skip others which you do not care.(Please bear with me as this is going to be a long review)Hardware Build Quality: (4½ of 5)...

I really wanted to like this router. It has a lot of things going for it. You have the nice looks, 7 LAN ports with link and activity indicators, 2 USB ports, a power switch, a cooling fan that only comes on if needed, nice rubber feet, wall mount points, and all the features an average home user would want. It sounds great. I had no problems configuring the router and had it running in place of my WNDR3700 in no time. After that things just fell apart.The WIFI signal is about 10dBm lower than the WIFI signal from my WNDR3700 in the same position. Devices in my bedroom had problems getting a signal good enough to stream consistent quality HD video.The router would lock up and require a reboot once every couple days or so. That is no good so I put the latest firmware on the router. I then continued to have the same problem. I figured that since this was a new product for WD so I would just shelve it and give them time to sort it out before posting my review...

I was seriously looking at 802.11ac routers, but decided to get an 802.11N router since the AC's won't have Wifi Certification till early next year and I needed something now.So, surfing through the all the 11N reviews, I decided on getting this WD My Net HD Dual-Band N900.Great choice so far, works like a champ!!Really like:Seven Gigabit LAN ports, great since I use wired for 2 computers in the house, and wifi for the laptop, phones and iPad.Two USB ports for storage and printer sharing - for printer sharing you need to install WD Print Share software on all the computers.Easy to set-up, maybe one of the easiestGreat dashboardFasTrack Plus technology - senses large internet downloads and gives them priority.Really fast, can't measure it, but faster than my friends 11N router that I barrowed last week.Could Improve:Range - but I think all routers should...