Linksys EA6900 802.11ac Wi-Fi router review: Too expensive for what’s delivered

December 27, 2013

After acquiring Linksys from Cisco, Belkin changed only one element of the EA-series industrial design with the EA6900: The company added adjustable/upgradeable antennas. That design change doesn’t seem to have had the performance impact Belkin was hoping for. The EA6900 is a good router, but it’s certainly not a barn-burner. Well, it might be in one respect, but you might not care: The EA6900 finished far ahead of the pack in terms of its 2.4GHz 802.11n performance (with the notable exception of when the client was located in my acoustically isolated home theater). Its performance as an 802.11ac router was unexceptional when paired with Linksys’s own WUSB6100 Wi-Fi adapter, only on par when paired with Linksys’s own WUMC710 Wi-Fi bridge, and relatively weak when paired with a second EA6900 configured as a Wi-Fi bridge. ROBERT CARDIN Adding adjustable antennas to the Linksys EA6900 didn't appreciably increase this router's wireless performance. The EA6900 is a dual-band router delivering throughput of 450 mbps on its 2.4GHz and 5GHz 802.11n networks, and up to 1300 mbps on its 5GHz 802.11ac network. As I’ve already mentioned, it features adjustable/upgradeable antennas.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

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