Western Digital Routers any good?

paintguy · 2 Jul 2013 at 19:53

There seems to be almost no mention of these routers on here but I wondered if anyone had any experience of them.

I must admit to being a bit of a WD fan boy and their routers seem to tick the right boxes and can be found cheap enough.

paintguy · 3 Jul 2013 at 20:26

I guess that's a no then?

I was particularly looking at the My Net N900. The usual simultaneous dual band wireless stuff but it includes 7 gigabit ports which I thought might be handy and tidier than adding an extra switch as I add more devices (it won't be too long before my lad is old enough to start hogging my bandwidth!). Their kinda smart QoS stuff sounded interesting too - automatically giving priority to media streams etc - but I guess I can do that manually.

I'll probably end up going back to my original plan of an Asus 56U or 66U and add a switch down the line when I need it. I plan to move everything into a cupboard anyway so won't suffer the wrath of SWMBO too much. Hopefully.

bremen1874 · 3 Jul 2013 at 20:50

You should buy one and then report back on your experiences. It'd be nice to have a good alternative to the Asus routers.

Solus · 4 Jul 2013 at 19:29

From what i've read they need regular reboots as they drop signal.

Shame though, would be really good kit otherwise, I can do without going back and forth the router to reboot it though personally.

Recent good discounts on these probably reflect the quality of them, as spec-wise they are similar to the asus rt-n56u

paintguy · 4 Jul 2013 at 20:37

Cheers.

It's going to be hidden away a bit so having to reboot it is no good for me. I'll be better off sticking to something that's known to be good when I get around to it.