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Originally Posted by qasdfdsaq
Yeah, but you said "all", it's misleading to say all revisions are supported when it's not "all". It's only C, D and some E.
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All, with exceptions is what I wrote. Unless there's a revision F which I didn't list it's accurate. IMO using the word all is acceptable in this context because the majority are supported, i.e. more are DD-WRT capable than not. But semantics are not the issue here so let's move on.
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Originally Posted by qasdfdsaq
The WR1043ND is a nice piece of kit, but at over 4x the cost of the DIR-615 with no difference except the gigabit ports and USB, it isn't really worth the extra money. Might as well step up a little more and get a WNDR3700 or DIR-825 for double speed, double wireless capacity, and double the RAM.
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I don't know where you shop for routers but if you're being charged four times the price of the DIR-615 for the TL-WR1043ND you're getting seriously ripped off!
Amazon UK currently has the
D-Link at £31.99 and the
TP-Link at £42.40. Both those prices include P&P.
With such closeness in price and being at the budget end of the market anyway you're better off going for the TP-Link which has double the amount of flash memory allowing the MEGA build of DD-WRT to be used, or the standard version with jffs2 partition if you need it. Also the USB2 port for external storage or network printer, plus three antennas instead of one.
I have
this wireless card in my laptop and it's excellent as I noted in my review. Maybe that's swaying my decision, but overall the TP-Link looks like the smarter purchase. AFAIK all their products are based on Atheros chipsets, which tend to perform pretty much as well as the more popular Broadcom-powered stuff.