Trendnet TEW-812DRU V2 router review: Barely the basics

December 28, 2013

Street-priced at $135, Trendnet’s TEW-812DRU V2 is one of the least expensive 802.11ac routers on the market. But its performance leaves much to be desired, and it's virtually bereft of advanced features beyond its support for 802.11ac. Well, that might be a little harsh. You can establish up to three guest networks with two options: Allowing guests full network access or restricting them to the Internet, and allowing them to interact on the network or isolating them from each other. Like D-Link’s DIR-868L, Trendnet’s TEW-812DRU V2 has a single USB 3.0 port that can be used to share storage or a printer. ROBERT CARDIN The Trendnet TEW-DRU812 V2 is one of the least-expensive 802.11ac routers on the market—with good reason. And unlike Buffalo’s WZR-1750DHP, the Trendnet’s router recognizes drives formatted NTFS. Or at least some drives. For whatever reason, it wouldn’t recognize the WD My Passport drive I use for measuring NAS file-transfer performance. It did recognize a different WD My Passport, but since the TEW-812DRU happened to be the last drive I tested, I wasn’t about to go back and retest the rest of the field with that other drive, so I skipped that benchmark with this router.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

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