Easy to set up and great signal strength After my Linksys WRT54G failed, I was not looking forward to another wireless router installation 'experience'. It took the better part of one day to install the Linksys with the aid of multiple downloaded documents from their web site to finally get the right combination to work. The Linksys was still in warranty when it failed, but no amount of money or service would convince me to continue using this unit. I was tired of having to reconfigure it about once a month when it would just decide to...
[ZyXEL X-550 XTREMEMIMO 802.11G WIRELESS BROADBAND ROUTER review by Larry G. Crowder can be read at Amazon.com] | | Amazon.com Rating: 10.0  |
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| Reviewed by: | Larry G. Crowder | | Review Date: | 03/27/2007 | | User Location: | Mobile, AL | | Review From: | User Review |  |  |
100% (38 of 38) Users Found This Review Helpful |
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Solid router with great features After struggling with other routers that had firmware bugs and hardware problems, the Zyxel X-550 impresses me with its reliability. Not only that, but it has some features that I haven't found in very many routers. Manual configuration of routing table entries and named schedules are just two examples. The named schedules can be used to control when content filtering, port mapping, and other functions are activated. You only have to enter a time period once and give it a name to use everywh...
[ZyXEL X-550 XTREMEMIMO 802.11G WIRELESS BROADBAND ROUTER review by E. W Wolfner "Erik" can be read at Amazon.com] | | Amazon.com Rating: 10.0 |
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| Reviewed by: | E. W Wolfner "Erik" | | Review Date: | 06/12/2006 | | User Location: | Delray Beach, FL United States | | Review From: | User Review | | | |
100% (16 of 16) Users Found This Review Helpful |
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Fantastic for VOIP (Vonage) I recently got Vonage and was unhappy with the voice quality when uploading from my PC. The Vonage adapter was supposed to have QOS (Quality of Service) for downstream PC's, but it didn't work for me.
I got this router, and was amazed. It worked great and handled QOS perfectly out of the box - no configuration required. As a test, I called someone on the Vonage phone while uploading at full speed from my PC (bittorrent). The person on the other end of the line didn't hear any voice quali...
[ZyXEL X-550 XTREMEMIMO 802.11G WIRELESS BROADBAND ROUTER review can be read at Amazon.com] | | Amazon.com Rating: 10.0 |
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| Reviewed by: | | | Review Date: | 06/28/2006 | | User Location: | | | Review From: | User Review | | | |
100% (14 of 14) Users Found This Review Helpful |
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Setup not designed for novice users, otherwise great I bought this unit based primarly on previous rave reviews here on Amazon, but nobody mentioned that it can be more complicated to setup for a casual network admin. than are products oriented to the home/small office user such as from Netgear and others.
Once I got the router working with my Verizon DSL/Westell modem combination all was well. However, compared to the Netgear router this replaced (an older 802.11b unit) the quick start guide and setup procedure is lacking for novice u...
[ZyXEL X-550 XTREMEMIMO 802.11G WIRELESS BROADBAND ROUTER review by John T. Horner "jthorner" can be read at Amazon.com] | | Amazon.com Rating: 8.0 |
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| Reviewed by: | John T. Horner "jthorner" | | Review Date: | 03/22/2007 | | User Location: | Morgan Hill, CA USA | | Review From: | User Review | | | |
81% (9 of 11) Users Found This Review Helpful |
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Best router I have purchased so far I've been through a bunch of routers and found various faults with them. The last purchase was a Belkin Pre-N wireless router which had terrific wireless range, but rotten firewall and routing capabilities. It now serves as a wireless access point.
So here's my caveat - I can't comment on the wireless performance as I don't have it turned on. I did like the fact that the wireless functionality is turned off with a dip switch however.
I came to the Zyxel after reading tha...
[ZyXEL X-550 XTREMEMIMO 802.11G WIRELESS BROADBAND ROUTER review by Neil Fairall can be read at Amazon.com] | | Amazon.com Rating: 10.0 |
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| Reviewed by: | Neil Fairall | | Review Date: | 06/27/2006 | | User Location: | Massachusetts | | Review From: | User Review | | | |
72% (18 of 25) Users Found This Review Helpful |
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Best router I've had in a long time By far, this is the best router I've had in a long time. My previous router, the D-Link DI-624 WirelessG, was unstable, had a poor signal range, and over-all proved to be a tremendous headache. I decided it was time to replace it, and after a great deal of research, purchased the Zyxel X-550 XtremeMimo 802.11G.
Firstly, there was one quirk on setup that I feel needs to be mentioned. I had an issue where my wireless clients were receiving the wrong Gateway address. Everything els...
[ZyXEL X-550 XTREMEMIMO 802.11G WIRELESS BROADBAND ROUTER review by Travis Kater can be read at Amazon.com] | | Amazon.com Rating: 10.0 |
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| Reviewed by: | Travis Kater | | Review Date: | 07/25/2006 | | User Location: | North Pole, AK, USA (This IS r | | Review From: | User Review | | | |
100% (9 of 9) Users Found This Review Helpful |
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Great Router! We struggled with a Linksys router for years, with increasingly frequent times where we needed to reset it manually because it had stopped all through traffic. We also had poor reception in parts of our house with every other router we tried. I became fairly experienced with routers just trying to tweak them into working better. Finally gave up on Linksys and bought the Zyxel X-550 after much research.
We've had it for a few months now and have never had any problems. Never! We run mu...
[ZyXEL X-550 XTREMEMIMO 802.11G WIRELESS BROADBAND ROUTER review can be read at Amazon.com] | | Amazon.com Rating: 10.0 |
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| Reviewed by: | | | Review Date: | 03/03/2007 | | User Location: | | | Review From: | User Review | | | |
100% (7 of 7) Users Found This Review Helpful |
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Fast... when it worked Worked well... when it worked. It was fast, reasonably easy to set up, and rarely needed to be reset. Then it started acting glitchy. At first I thought it was my cable modem or my cable service, but it was not that. I replaced the router with an Airport Extreme (which has been great) and sent the Zyxel back to California in September for service. After repeated emails and phone calls to customer support it turns out that..... THEY LOST THE ROUTER. They have no clue where it is and keep pa...
[ZyXEL X-550 XTREMEMIMO 802.11G WIRELESS BROADBAND ROUTER review by C. Butler "r g" can be read at Amazon.com] | | Amazon.com Rating: 2.0 |
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| Reviewed by: | C. Butler "r g" | | Review Date: | 12/08/2007 | | User Location: | New York USA | | Review From: | User Review | | | |
85% (6 of 7) Users Found This Review Helpful |
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it just works I am not into computers as far as the innerworkings are concerned. I like to turn it on and get to what I need to do. Zyxel did just that. Also, I am in a concrete building and I still get signal on all three levels of the building. I would recommend it to anyone.
Carl Caylor
[ZyXEL X-550 XTREMEMIMO 802.11G WIRELESS BROADBAND ROUTER review by Carl Caylor can be read at Amazon.com] | | Amazon.com Rating: 10.0 |
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| Reviewed by: | Carl Caylor | | Review Date: | 06/12/2007 | | User Location: | Iron Mountain, MI USA | | Review From: | User Review | | | |
83% (5 of 6) Users Found This Review Helpful |
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Awesome Product!! I kept reading such wonderful reviews about this router that I had to buy it. I really needed to set up a wireless network in my home because I wanted to put my computer in my bedroom. Which incidently is on the opposite side of the house of where the modem is located at. Considering there is a large bedroom, a bathroom, 2 closets, and a hall between the area where the router would be at and my room, I was having doubts about any router being able to handle that many walls. All I can say is that...
[ZyXEL X-550 XTREMEMIMO 802.11G WIRELESS BROADBAND ROUTER review can be read at Amazon.com] | | Amazon.com Rating: 10.0 |
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| Reviewed by: | | | Review Date: | 07/12/2007 | | User Location: | | | Review From: | User Review | | | |
100% (5 of 5) Users Found This Review Helpful |