The Wireless-N Broadband Router is really three devices in one box.

First, there's the Wireless Access Point, which lets you connect to the network without wires. There's also a built-in 4-port full-duplex 10/100 Switch to connect your wired-Ethernet devices together. Finally, the Router function ties it all together and lets your whole network share a high-speed cable or DSL Internet connection.

The Access Point built into the Router uses the very latest wireless networking technology, Wireless-N (draft 802.11n). By overlaying the signals of multiple radios, Wireless-N's "Multiple In, Multiple Out" (MIMO) technology multiplies the effective data rate. Unlike ordinary wireless networking technologies that are confused by signal reflections, MIMO actually uses these reflections to increase the range and reduce "dead spots" in the wireless coverage area. The robust signal travels farther, maintaining wireless connections up to 4 times farther than standard Wireless-G.

With Wireless-N, the farther away you are, the more speed advantage you get. It works great with standard Wireless-G and -B equipment, but when both ends of the wireless link are Wireless-N, the router can increase the throughput even more by using twice as much radio band, yielding speeds up to 12 times as fast as standard Wireless-G. But unlike other speed-enhanced technologies, Wireless-N can dynamically enable this double-speed mode for Wireless-N devices, while still connecting to other wireless devices at their respective fastest speeds. In congested areas, the "good neighbor" mode ensures that the Router checks for other wireless devices in the area before gobbling up the radio band.

To help protect your data and privacy, the Router can encode all wireless transmissions with industrial-strength 256-bit encryption. It can serve as your network's DHCP Server, has a powerful SPI firewall to protect your PCs against intruders and most known Internet attacks, and supports VPN pass-through. Configuration is a snap with the web browser-based configuration utility.

The incredible speed of Wireless-N makes it ideal for media-centric applications like streaming video, gaming, and Voice over IP telephony, and gives you plenty of headroom to run multiple media-intense data streams through the network at the same time, with no degradation in performance. With the Linksys Wireless-N Broadband Router at the center of your home or office network, you can share a high-speed Internet connection, files, printers, and multi-player games, and run media-intensive applications at faster than 10/100 wired network speeds, without the hassle of stringing wires!

We could find retails for $59.99 plus shipping, but either they are out of stock or open box. Those that are in stock, the lowest price found is $84.73.

Today only THING FLING's price is $42.69 plus shipping. That's a $17.00 saving from our last offer. But remember, $42.69 is for today only.

* Brand: Linksys
* Model: WRT300N-RM
* Condition: Refurbished
* UPC: 745883584949

maybe the shipping doesn't smile for you upon delivery?

Is this some sort of day late April Fools item? Not impressed. (or expressed, for that matter).

If the WRT300N is a gigabit router, then I would think the WRT300N-RM should be.
The only difference is that the "-RM" is added at the end to indicate the refurbished status.

I can't think of a reason why a refurbished model of any router would be different than the non-refurbished one as far as ethernet speeds go.

According to Linksys' documentation, the WRT300N is not a gigabit router - it only supports 10/100. The WRT330N (called their "Gigabit Gaming Router" does support 10/100/1000.

Will check back for the Linksys Wireless-N Gigabit Gaming Router. Anyone know what model number it was last time listed?

If its 42.69, i'm getting, 59.99, i'm not. Which is it??

I'd be in for this, but going forward I've decided that gigabit ethernet is what I'm going to standardize on for wired connections in my home.

I know that with any sort of non-dialup internet connectivity, the weakest link is always that connection and it's not going to make my internet browsing significantly faster - but I'm going to be setting up a network-based backup method for the computers in my home (three - mine, wife and kids) and gigabit's going to almost be a requirement for that.

If you're Joe or Joanne Average, this is a great deal on a wireless broadband router though!

I get "Not Paid" when try to buy with paypal.