Review of TP-LINK’s TL-WR1043ND Wireless Router, Power Packed and Feature Rich

After writ­ing a review on Newegg.com regard­ing this router, we fig­ured it was worth men­tion­ing in our blog. It’s rare that a prod­uct catches the eye of the Guru’s. But this router stands out from the pack. With a com­bi­na­tion of low price, unmatched fea­tures, and all around func­tion­al­ity, make TP-LINK’s TL-WR1043ND wire­less router a stand­out from the pack. Typ­i­cally fea­tures found in this router are only avail­able in high dol­lar, or appli­ca­tion spe­cific routers. That cou­pled with the abil­ity to flash open source firmware’s, such as DD-WRT, opens the door to seem­ingly lim­it­less con­fig­u­ra­tions and abil­i­ties. At the time of our review, this router was sell­ing for $59.99, with free ship­ping form Newegg.com. There’s cur­rently no other router that can match this routers fea­tures and func­tion­al­ity, in both bud­get price range, and full blown gam­ing routers.

Update:
Like we said, this is an amaz­ing prod­uct. Not one day after our review of the TL-WR1043ND, it not only sells out com­pletely at Newegg.com, but the price increased $10 and ship­ping is no longer included. The router is still well worth this min­i­mally inflated price. But its makes us wish we had bought more.

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On a scale of one to five, we rated this router a Five. Our review reads as follows:

Pros:
This router is amaz­ing. I didn’t even bother with the fac­tory oper­at­ing sys­tem. I flashed DD-WRT as soon as I got it, and I couldn’t be hap­pier. This was an upgrade from a WRT54GL, and let me just say that if you’re even con­sid­er­ing this as a sim­i­lar upgrade, DO IT… Giga­bit Lan, I really don’t know how I lived with­out it. Plus a USB net­work share drive, or ftp server, or what­ever else you’d like to do with it. With this I was able to ditch a small file server I had run­ning as well. That’s $50 a month off my PG&E.

This router puts my old Linksys GL router to shame. The GUI, run­ning DD-WRT of course, is light­ning fast. There’s no notice­able lag or delay what­so­ever between page refreshes. At this price, and with all the included fea­tures, I really don’t ever see myself buy­ing any other router in the fore­see­able future. That’s for both me, and my clients. Bravo TP-LINK…

Cons:
ummm.… 5 year war­ranty? That’s just too long. lol… Not a one!!!!

Other Thoughts:
If you’re even con­sid­er­ing this router, BUY IT!!!! You will not be dis­ap­pointed. There’s noth­ing in this price range that even com­pares, at the time of my review. And I don’t see that chang­ing any­time soon.

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Sources:

Cur­rently on sale for $59.99, with free ship­ping form Newegg.com

DD-WRT open source firmware. Warn­ing, this will void your war­ranty and can turn your router into a paper weight. Flash at your own discretion.

May 15, 2010 | Web Design | 3 Comments »

Having Strange Errors Utilizing Gzip in WordPress 2.9 and 2.9.1?

For­tu­nately your not alone. A recent bug fix was just released which addresses an error which is received while updat­ing the Word­Press core, as well as Word­Press plu­g­ins. This error typ­i­cally effects http.php, located at wp-includes/http.php, and looks sim­i­lar to the code listed below.

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Jan 10, 2010 | Server 2003, Web Design, Wordpress | 2 Comments »

Force Nextgen Gallery To Crop Thumbnails From The Top Of The Image… **Updated**

In our orig­i­nal post, we sim­ply deleted a line to change the start­ing posi­tion of NextGEN’s thumb­nail crop. With the most recent ver­sion of NextGEN Gallery,1.4.3 at the time of this update. While this was a func­tional fix, it was gen­er­at­ing errors. So here’s our much improved, and clean fix.

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Dec 18, 2009 | Web Browsers, Web Design, Wordpress | 5 Comments »

Utilizing GZip with WordPress, Finally a Fast Blog…

The first half of this arti­cle will be taken directly from our pre­vi­ous post, as the need for a sin­gle default php.ini is nec­es­sary to con­fig­ure gzip. If read­ing our Magento post is what brought you to the site, and you’ve already con­fig­ured your default php.ini, than skip to the .htac­cess por­tion of the post. Oth­er­wise, were off…

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Nov 30, 2009 | Magento, Web Design, Wordpress | Leave A Comment »

Magento Terms and Conditions Missing

This was an inter­est­ing issue we ran into recently while build­ing an E-commerce site for one of our clients. Typ­i­cally “Terms and Con­di­tions” is eas­ily enable in the admin­is­tra­tive sec­tion by first going to Con­fig­u­ra­tion -> Sys­tem -> Check­out ->Check­out Options and choos­ing yes to enable “Terms and Con­di­tions”. Then going to Sales -> Terms and con­di­tions and typ­ing in your terms. With our setup, we were able to choose yes to enable “Terms and Con­di­tions”, but we were not able to see the option under sales to fill in a list of terms.

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Oct 31, 2009 | Magento, Web Design | 3 Comments »

Enabling HTML in Magento Terms and Conditions

We’ve recently been work­ing with a new E-commerce plat­form called Magento. Its a very pow­er­ful open source prod­uct, with tons of fea­tures, and open source good­ness. We recently ran into an issue where we needed to enable HTML con­tent in the “Terms and Con­di­tions”. The fix was actu­ally quite simple.

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Oct 31, 2009 | Magento, Web Design | 1 Comment »

How Do I Specify a Class For IMG Inserted With Visual Editor…

The fol­low­ing is in response to a ques­tion on WordPress.org. We’ve become extremely pro­fi­cient with word­press in the past few years, and we’re always com­ing up with inno­v­a­tive ways of using this amaz­ing prod­uct. We try to post most all our fixes, hacks, and tricks, in the hopes that it will prove use­ful to some­one. Hope­fully this will be no different.

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Aug 24, 2009 | Web Browsers, Web Design, Wordpress | Leave A Comment »

Putting the finishing touches on Monster Photography

Today we’re putting the fin­ish­ing touches on our good friend Mike’s web­site. He’s a pho­tog­ra­pher cur­rently located in Anti­och Ca. The pic­tures may be a bit racy, but the site is beau­ti­fully built, with tons of trick fea­tures and a beau­ti­ful gallery setup. The site is still a lit­tle buggy, but we’ve released it early in order for Mike to have exam­ples of his work for his upcom­ing Play­boy debut. Have a look and tell us what you think. Thanks for vis­it­ing the site.

Apr 27, 2009 | Web Design | 1 Comment »

We’re Adding a Search Function To Our Web Site.…..

We real­ize that you value the infor­ma­tion we release as part of doing busi­ness. We are not only Google seach­able. But we will soon be adding a local search func­tion to the web­site. We appre­ci­ate the feed­back, and encour­age more of your ques­tions and com­ments. If you need help with an issue we haven’t cov­ered yet, please ask us. Thanks for visiting.

Oct 12, 2007 | Web Design | Leave A Comment »

Today We Finished FastTracAutomotive.com…..

We’re always inter­ested in a good barter, and ours friends over at Fast­Tra­cAu­to­mo­tive had some­thing good to offer. One of the Gurus needs auto­mo­tive work done, and the guys at Fast­Tra­cAu­to­mo­tive were will­ing to do the labor in kind for adver­tise­ments, and a sim­ple web­page. We’ve put together a sim­ple adver­tise­ment that they can now use on Craigslist, as well as a sim­ple page that will get them expo­sure on the inter­net. (more…)

Mar 14, 2007 | Web Design | Leave A Comment »

Today We’re Starting A Site For Tony Barriere Interpreting.…

Tony Bar­riere is the owner and oper­a­tor of Tony Bar­riere Inter­pret­ing Ser­vice INC. based in Bur­bank CA. They pro­vide Inter­pre­ta­tion and Trans­la­tion ser­vices for civil cases, per­sonal injury, as well as social secu­rity and immi­gra­tion. We’ll most likely be build­ing a sim­ple but ele­gant CSS based web­site. At this point the sites bare bones, but there’s more to come. TBInterpreting.com Check back soon for updates.

Mar 13, 2007 | Web Design | Leave A Comment »

How I Made Our Background Image.…

The image you see in the back­ground is actu­ally 8 images all pieced together to make my vir­tual desk­top. I was hav­ing an inspi­ra­tional day and decided I would take pic­tures of every­thing on my desk. I then took those images, with the help of Pho­to­shop CS2, and com­bined them into the image you now see. It’s amaz­ing what you can do when you’re inspired.

Feb 15, 2007 | Web Design, Wordpress | Leave A Comment »