Edimax BR-6248n,300 Mbps 802.11n Wireless Broadband Router Review & Ratings

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Edimax BR-6248n,300 Mbps 802.11n Wireless Broadband Router Review

I have two of these routers currently in service.
One (A) connects to the internet and does DHCP.
The other (B) performs wireless bridging from a wired network to (A).
I selected the Edimax BR-6428n router to upgrade my 8-year-old
Belkin 54g routers for several reasons:
- The router is inexpensive and I needed more than one
- It supports N
- I wanted better radio coverage than the old Belkins
- Belkin informed me that they no longer supported wireless bridging;
Edimax does.
Wireless bridging in my case is critically important. Router (A)
and the wired network connected to router (B) are on separate floors and
neither can be relocated. Thus if computers on
the wired network are to obtain internet access, the wired network has
to be wirelessly bridged to (A).
I was easily able to reach Edimax pre-sales and they confirmed
the router could do wireless bridging, suggesting I use wireless
repeater mode.
Once receiving the routers, internet & DHCP setup was quite simple,
using an ethernet cable to connect to the routers
for the first time and using the web interface to configure them.
The first hiccup was that I couldn't figure out how to set up wireless
bridging. The various modes described in the manual didn't quite
describe what I needed.
I spent several hours and gave up, finally emailing their
technical support. Support responded right away the next business day
morning with a document from which I was easily able to get wireless
bridging to work.
The document suggested using "station infrastructure" mode
*and* - the critical part - enable static routing in NAT.
That second part I was unable to guess in all my attempts.
It would be nice if this were in the manual.
In fairness, however, my requirements are not typical.
The second hiccup was in getting wireless-N speeds -- i.e. connecting
at 300Mbps. My relatively modern Thinkpad T510 was connected at 54Mbps --
wireless g. Again I emailed tech suppot, but soon after
independently discovered via web search that you must use WPA2, not WPA,
because the wireless N standard says that use of WPA requires degradation
of service to 54g speeds. I switched to WPA2 and got 150Mbps connect speeds,
not 300Mbps.
Edimax technical support emailed back right away,
confirmed the use of WPA2, but also informed
me that I must set "bandwidth to Auto 20/40MHz".
(According to Edimax support it isn't the default because the
WiFi standard requires it not to be.
It would be nice if the manual were to note this.)
Once I did that, the Thinkpad connected at 300Mbps.
In fairness, the Edimax GUI suggested I use WPA2, but I disregarded
the suggestion, because I thought I might use an old laptop having only WPA.
As for actual speed, the best speed was not reached by using
"station infrastructure" mode, but by using
"wireless repeater" mode as learned in the pre-sales call.
(Tech support sent me the "station infrastructure" mode document because I had
not mentioned that I expected wireless devices to also connect to (B).
There is also a "wireless repeater" document.)
With wireless repeater mode, I copied a 142MB file from the Thinkpad
(physically close to and wirelessly connected to (B
to an HP desktop (connected directly to (B) via an ethernet cable).
Both run Windows 7-64, have core i7 processors, and 8GB RAM.
The best speed I got was 13.5 seconds or 10.5MB/sec = 84Mbps.
This is excellent performance and on par with routers that cost
quite a bit more, from reading reviews of other devices.
The router runs at room temperature, with a small part of
its underside being barely warm. The Belkins dissipated quite a bit more heat.
In summary:
- tech support from Edimax was outstanding
- wireless N speeds are excellent
- the router is excellent value for money
I can highly recommend the Edimax BR-6428n.

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