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| Brand: | TP-Link |
| Item Height : | 29 millimetres |
| Item Width: | 17.4 centimetres |
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- The TP-Link TD-W8961ND ADSL2+ modem router bring together the functions of a lightning-fast ADSL modem, a 4-port 10/100 Mbps NAT router and a wireless access point.The TP-Link TD-W8961ND supports wireless transfer speeds of up to 300 Mbps, meaning you can
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The TD-W8961ND Wireless N ADSL2+ Modem Router is an all-in-one device that combines the function of a high speed ADSL modem, a 4-port 10/100Mbps NAT router and a wireless access point. It is designed to give you a one-stop solution to acquiring and sharing high-speed Internet access over a wired/wireless network. Supporting the ADSL standards, the TD-W8961ND brings with it much higher speed than a dial-up connection. Complying with the IEEE 802.11n standard, users will get up to 15x the speed and 5x the range of conventional 11g products. Now you can enjoy more kinds of bandwidth consuming applications like HD video streaming wirelessly which can not be accommodated by 11g products, from anywhere in your entire home or even the yard, imagine all the possibilities with TD-W8961ND wirelessly!
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30 of 31 people found the following review helpful
First time writing on Amazon...this product needed it. After being disappointed by the Netgear DGN series, I thought i'd go for the lesser known company. However, it has lived up to it's price tag twice over. It's range is good which is expected as it's Draft-N, boosted the ADSL connection by another 1meg at least and is very reliable for keeping a steady connection. I've used several different devices (iphone, ipod, xbox 360, laptop etc)at once and at different times and it hasn't wavered once.
I'm an amateur when it comes to routers but i've had several and this one definitely comes out on top. The setup is simple but the browser interface can be daunting to a novice user.
Summing up, want something that don't look good but will give you a satisfied feeling after you've purchased it? Buy the W8961ND. It will NOT LET YOU DOWN!
I'm an amateur when it comes to routers but i've had several and this one definitely comes out on top. The setup is simple but the browser interface can be daunting to a novice user.
Summing up, want something that don't look good but will give you a satisfied feeling after you've purchased it? Buy the W8961ND. It will NOT LET YOU DOWN!
10 of 10 people found the following review helpful
This has replaced a Linksys Wag54 which constantly dropped the line causing problems. I have now had this product 4 days and it dropped a line out once but very quickly restored the status quo. It was easy to set up and is proving reliable. When setting up, use the browser option as the CD setup lost the country/ISP data and then encountered an error 20 later on. This was the process given from their help desk in response to the error.
8 of 8 people found the following review helpful
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I bought one of these to install in my parents' house as the old wireless router had conked out. As soon as I had selected the ISP (PlusNet - useless shower) from a dropdown list and entered the username and password in the right place it got itself online immediately with no bother. I note the problems one reviewer had trying to get the mini-cd to work in their mac. I never bothered using the CD, except when I need to check some stuff in the manual - AFAIK nobody actually needs it.
Admittedly the packaging is misleading because there's a big sticker blocking the LAN ports with a label urging you to 'run the CD first'. I've installed these things often enough to know you don't need to run any CD at all, you just login to 192.168.1.1 (usually) with your browser. If you do run the CD, you often get the bloated monster that is Internet Explorer blundering its way onto your desktop demanding to be made your default browser and asking you all sort of dumb questions about your surfing preferences... sorry, bit of a rant there. Bottom line - ignore the sticker over the ports.
Secondly, I was amazed to find that the firmware needed updating. I needed to use a fixed-IP address on the network and although I went through all the router's rather obscure and acronym-riddled menus I could not find the routine for fixing an IP address to one MAC address anywhere. Either TP had called it something else or it simply didn't exist, but as soon as I had updated the firmware the option appeared on Page One of the setup. Clearly I am not the only user who got lost in the menus looking for the blasted thing. Amazing that they ever issued a model that did not have that vital function from firmware v1.0.
Once up and running I found the router fairly powerful - though with two aerials I frankly expected a rather stronger signal - but very quick to respond and reboot, which was a pleasant change. I was surprised to find the wireless signal switched on with no security by default. That is not good practice.
It's fantastic value for money though. I would have liked a USB port, with the potential to plug a printer into it making it effectively a networked printer spooler, but for £32 you can't really complain.
I'd give it five stars, but minus one star for (a) forcing me to waste forty minutes looking though the interface for a function that did not exist in that version of the firmware (b) filling the menus with acronyms I'd never heard of (wth is ACL?) and (c) putting a sticker over the ports telling me I needed to run the CD when I didn't.
Admittedly the packaging is misleading because there's a big sticker blocking the LAN ports with a label urging you to 'run the CD first'. I've installed these things often enough to know you don't need to run any CD at all, you just login to 192.168.1.1 (usually) with your browser. If you do run the CD, you often get the bloated monster that is Internet Explorer blundering its way onto your desktop demanding to be made your default browser and asking you all sort of dumb questions about your surfing preferences... sorry, bit of a rant there. Bottom line - ignore the sticker over the ports.
Secondly, I was amazed to find that the firmware needed updating. I needed to use a fixed-IP address on the network and although I went through all the router's rather obscure and acronym-riddled menus I could not find the routine for fixing an IP address to one MAC address anywhere. Either TP had called it something else or it simply didn't exist, but as soon as I had updated the firmware the option appeared on Page One of the setup. Clearly I am not the only user who got lost in the menus looking for the blasted thing. Amazing that they ever issued a model that did not have that vital function from firmware v1.0.
Once up and running I found the router fairly powerful - though with two aerials I frankly expected a rather stronger signal - but very quick to respond and reboot, which was a pleasant change. I was surprised to find the wireless signal switched on with no security by default. That is not good practice.
It's fantastic value for money though. I would have liked a USB port, with the potential to plug a printer into it making it effectively a networked printer spooler, but for £32 you can't really complain.
I'd give it five stars, but minus one star for (a) forcing me to waste forty minutes looking though the interface for a function that did not exist in that version of the firmware (b) filling the menus with acronyms I'd never heard of (wth is ACL?) and (c) putting a sticker over the ports telling me I needed to run the CD when I didn't.
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Most Recent Customer Reviews
Never again
I usually buy Netgear routers but I thought I'd go for TP-Link after hearing a lot of good reviews about them... Big mistake! Read more
Published 11 days ago by Lux
Decent speed but range is not that impressive
I replaced a problematic SMC router with one of these TP-Links. Straightforward installation and set up. Nice reliable and stable connectivity so far. Read more
Published 15 days ago by J. Munro
Reliable but technical
The router arrived a day later than estimated, but I could live with that.
The problem I had was setting up; other reviews stated that they didn't even need to use the... Read more
The problem I had was setting up; other reviews stated that they didn't even need to use the... Read more
Published 20 days ago by MattSpinks
Works great, but keep a lookout for the newer model
Bought this as a replacement for a dead Speedtouch router (that died while downgrading its' firmware). Read more
Published 21 days ago by I. Ward
Good range, good speed & found the setup easy
We bought this for a small office and are very pleased with it. I am not a person with much experience of setting up routers, but I found this one easy. Read more
Published 21 days ago by Scribbler
Impossible to set up
As the title suggests, I have a pretty fair knowledge of this stuff but I just couldn't get the device to work reliably inspite of "help" from TPlinks's technical people - they are... Read more
Published 28 days ago by Mike D
Impossible to setup - refunded
Found this router impossible to setup and operate with my Idnet UK ISP, and I'm not a technophobe as I build mid to high end gaming PCs from scratch. Read more
Published 1 month ago by Christopher Walker
Easy set up but some compatibility problem
We bought this router for a client as it was reputed to be very easy to set up and work well.
Set up was indeed very easy and it seemed to give a good performance. Read more
Set up was indeed very easy and it seemed to give a good performance. Read more
Published 1 month ago by Mrs. Valerie E. Coker
wireless router
This TP-link wireless router is excellent It does exactly what it says it does for multiple computors and what was most important to me was extremely easy to instal. Read more
Published 1 month ago by H. Price
Cheap, cheerful, works great
I purchased this router to replace an old router provided by my ISP, which dropped out about every half an hour, and took 5 minutes or so to restart the connection. Read more
Published 1 month ago by Esk
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