Asus WL-566gM MIMO Router - Feedback

[farhan]

Check Out The Review HERE

Comments and questions are welcome

[killer]

wats the price tag?

oh btw, wat abt different floor, n abt 25 m away?

[farhan]

yaar price as i have mentioned is about Rs.8k-9k cuz its selling on newegg for $110 newegg. But the real issue is in order to use the full potential of the router u need to buy the reciver PCMCIA card whcih supports MIMO technology aswell for yur laptop. so that adds like extra $60-$70 to your budget.



and about the range. The range definitely increases when u use the mimo setup.


and the region/range u specified u wud be able to recievet he signal and browse the net. However tranferring the files between the LAN might be a bit too slow. If the router is placed at a central location int he house, the range is maximized.

[killer]

ok thank dude.

while we r at it, do you know if i'll be able to use the ordinary wifi access point to link two pc that are on different storey n approx. 20-25 m away?

[farhan]

while using the Asus WL-566gm a found a drawback. It appears that the router does not support a protocol called "IP Sec". This protocol is widely used in the VPNs of the many corporate Organizations. I found the setback when a cousin of mine wanted to log onto the IBM vpn and he cudnt. so i had to check and as it turned out the o
router did not support IP sec. This cud be a major blow to Asus's product sale ambitions in the corporate secter.

I think a newer firmware could solve this issue but the so far the even the latest firmware doesnt have IP Sec support. Let see if future firmware updates may inlcude that

[funxlab]

It is not in the list of DD-Wrt for the hacked firmware to increase the range of coverage area.