Linksys AC3200 Dual-Band WiFi Gaming Router with Killer Prioritization Engine WRT32X (Renewed)

The WRT32X appears to be, essentially, a WRT3200ACM in an all-black plastic housing rather than one with blue. According to their pages on WikiDevi, the WRT3200ACM also has some additional flash ROM, perhaps for recovery as that router is aimed primarily at people who want to run custom firmwares. Both routers are priced by Linksys on their website at $250 at the time of writing. At $95, this refurb is sold for an excellent price.While the router is aimed at gaming, I have no interest in special gaming features, so the first thing I did was blow away the factory firmware in favor of vanilla OpenWrt. I was able to switch over simply uploading the official ‘factory’ firmware image (i.e., the file had a ‘.img’ file extension) of the latest stable release (18.06.2 at the time of writing) built for this device from the OpenWrt website via the firmware upgrade section of the router's web interface that the router came with out of the box. So although the feature is not so proudly advertised as with the main entrants in the WRT series, installing an up-to-date, open-source firmware is pretty much effortless, requiring no futzing around with recovery modes or the like.For those who *do* care about reducing latency (‘ping’), OpenWrt supports this via the ‘bufferbloat’ Smart Queue Management feature (which may also be the implementation in the stock firmware). If you have concerns about the stock firmware including it being well-maintained, throw OpenWrt on this thing, install the package `luci-app-sqm`, and look up ‘Smart Queue Management’ on the OpenWrt wiki to see how to configure it.On the topic of installing packages, this router features a generous 100 MB of writable space on the built-in flash, which is enough for a ton of OpenWrt packages. (For comparison, my older WRT1900ACS features only 25MB of writable spcae on the onboard flash storage. Most of that space remains free after a few custom additions, including a more complete Vim installation, a custom theme for the web interface, and OpenVPN (with SSL support).) So using a vanilla open-source firmware, it should be quite easy to add support for advanced features to do pretty much anything you want. A glance at the source repo for Luci (the OpenWrt web interface) applications shows offerings for torrent clients, HTTP(S) and metalink downloaders, several VPN clients and servers, clients for several P2P services, multimedia streaming servers, wake-on-lan support, Windows filesharing via Samba, and more. Even more is available in the wider OpenWrt ecosystem if you do not require a GUI, as well. (I have not tested the USB 3.0 and eSATA ports, but by appearances this device would make a nice little NAS.)The router comes with three wireless radios for WiFi (two 5 GHz and one 2.4 GHz), and on my unit all three work well and perform better than I need them to.Highly recommended to those looking for a great deal on a flexible, top-of-the-line router that plays nice with feature-rich, stable, open-source firmware.

So, coming from a wrt1900ac that starting just having the random reboots during heavy network traffic, I order this refurbished wrt32x with high hopes.Lets start with the good; this router is sexy af! The pics don't do it justice. The black case with the blue leds is very sharp. And although I really don't like blue leds, the lights on this router are just the right brightness. It arrived in a plain brown Linksys box in a foam tray. It had one tiny scuff on it, but otherwise it was in good shape, I'd say 8.5 out of 10. Initial setup is easy, actually there really isn't much to setup which I'll get to in a minute.Now the not so good: Unit was asking for a password when I first hooked it up, this required holding the red button down on the back for about 15 seconds. Tried again. There's only three of four pagers worth of setup. Once that is done and you are inside of the router configuration you'll notice that there aren't a whole of of options. The deal breaker for me though was that I couldn't get my 8tb usb hard drive to show up in my network map. I was never able to access it in any way. It worked just fine on my 1900ac, but then that router had a lot more options. The hard drive showed up in the configuration page but I could never get it to show up in windows. Also, my 1900ac would show up in the network in windows as a wrt1900ac but this router would show up as "openwrt router".I really wanted this router to work but the network hard drive is important to me so I'm sending this thing back and I'm gonna give the blue 3200 ac a try.Update 5/12/18: So it turns out that the NAS issue was with my computer. I was still having the same issue when the 3200acm showed up. Disabling and re-enabling smb in windows features made my NAS drive show up in network. So I'll update my rating to four stars. however, the half baked Linksys firmware as well as the fact the there is no working DD-WRT firmware for this router as of yet are an issue.

I was looking for a new router in order to take advantage of the full bandwidth that I'm paying for and also capable to reduce the lag and ping numbers. This Linksys got my attention and decide to buy it. I went for the refurbished option in order to save some $$$. I read on the web that the Xbox version of this router have the same capabilities and also the same menu settings, so decide for this one instead of the Xbox version. It came in a brown box instead of the colorful Linksys one but inside were the same, router, antennas, power supply, ethernet cable and some manuals. I had before another Linksys Dual Band Router that was customized over the Smart Wi-Fi App, I followed the instruction on the manuals on how to set it up with that app but did not made it possible, I did everything without a success, I repeat it a couple of times but the app says that did NOT found my router (I was connected to the network and had access to internet). I decide to try it with the same app but in my iPhone but I found the same results. At the end I went with the trusty 192.168.1.1 address and I found the router and was able to set the router and install new updates to it.After restart I complete the set up to my taste and made some Speedtest, (you can do it in the same menu of the router). The results were awesome, I was capable to have all the bandwidth that I'm paying for. On the Xbox I saw a awesome reduction in the ping number and the lag disappeared. All the settings in the menu are easy to follow, the only drawback is that I can't set Parental Control, the menu or the router does not have that option. The range is more that expect it, I live in a 2 story home and you have a good signal everywhere in the house. Also I attached some external drives and had access to them very easily (you can even password protect the access to external drives connected to the router). I'm very happy with the router, it was a great upgrade to my home network.

Es bueno si tienes una calidad buena de Internet.