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 »

My WordPress Blog is Sending Mail With My Webhosts Address

Here’s our solu­tion. Be sure your work­ing with the most up to date file. Local copies can become out­dated with online updates. Edit the fol­low­ing file: wordpress-root-directory/wp-includes/class-phpmailer.php

On line 75 (valid on Word­Press 2.7.1 — 2.8.7) and edit, “root@localhost.com” to the address you’de like to appear in admin­is­tra­tive emails, ie. user@yourdomain.com. You’ll also want to change your From­Name, on line 81, and your email address on line 88. Sim­ply fill the empty quotes.

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  /**
   * Sets the From email address for the message.
   * @var string
   */
  var $From              = 'root@localhost';
 
  /**
   * Sets the From name of the message.
   * @var string
   */
  var $FromName          = 'Root User';
 
  /**
   * Sets the Sender email (Return-Path) of the message.  If not empty,
   * will be sent via -f to sendmail or as 'MAIL FROM' in smtp mode.
   * @var string
   */
  var $Sender            = '';

And that’s it. Your sever will now send admin­is­tra­tive Emails from your cho­sen name, and address. Let us know if this was helpful.

May 23, 2009 | Wordpress | 2 Comments »

After I Uninstall Norton 360 I Can Ping Websites, But Not Browse The Web

I’ve never been a big fan of Nor­ton. Their prod­ucts always seem to slow sys­tems down, and seem to cause more prob­lems then they resolve. This sys­tem was no dif­fer­ent. Nor­ton 360 had been unin­stalled through add remove pro­grams. Nor­ton ended up leav­ing bits and pieces of itself all over the com­puter. Which left the machine in an unus­able state. Using a com­mand prompt we could ping google.com, which means DNS is ok. We then attempted to rebuild the Winsock, which again didn’t work. It was at this point we knew the prob­lem had to be Nor­ton. After a bit of google­ing we found “The Nor­ton Removal Tool” After we ran this lit­tle gem the com­puter restarted, and we were back in business.

After the repair we loaded on Avast Pro­fes­sional. Avast is an excel­lent anti-virus that’s uses far fewer resources than Nor­ton. We also rec­om­mend AVG anti-virus.

Nov 22, 2008 | Computer Repair and Networks | Leave A Comment »