Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

So far I have to say that I am very impressed after purchasing the WRT19000ac. Spent the last few days looking over the reviews and it seems that nearly all of the negative reviews center around the lack of open source functionality that Linksys claims is still a work in progress. The directions are very basic and simple and if you follow them you should have no issues. Without trying to be too confusing and detailed, I initially tried to log in and run setup directly by entering the IP address into the browser window but it didn’t seem to like that. The issue was probably more to do with the web browser than the router. After I went back to the directions and used one of my laptops to access the wireless network, installation/setup took about 5 minutes. So far it has been running great. I have been trying to stress it out but it has taken everything I can throw at it without a hiccup. Right now I am transferring a couple hundred gig of data from an old Iomega NAS that is on its last leg over to a Synology 1513+ using the gigabit LAN ports. According to Windows, transfer speed is averaging 22 MB/second (My old router averaged 1.09 MB/second). At the same time I am surfing the internet & writing this review with a laptop on the 2.4 GHz, my wife is streaming video with an IPad on the 5 GHz and I am streaming MLB.TV in High Definition on my smart TV also on 5GHz. The wrt1900 hasn’t even broken a sweat. It’s a little warm to the touch but still whisper quiet. Using my old router, by now MLB.TV would be looking like standard def, not to mention all the extra buffering, crashes and restarts it would go through. Although the price is pretty steep, having a total of 14 devices on a wireless router that is capable of managing all of them is worth the extra I had to dole out. Amazon is usually able to beat out any price that I can get locally even when factoring in sales tax but since this item is still new, and since my local electronics store had it the same price, I decided to buy it locally and not have to wait for shipping. Sorry Amazon! If I hadn’t had so much trouble with my old router, I might have waited a bit to see what Amazon does with the price. Overall, my initial impression is “Great Product”