Buffalo WHR-HP-G300N... anyone have it?

[Lalato]

Anyone have experience with the Buffalo WHR-HP-G300N. It's the single band version of the WZR-HP-G300NH that has been reviewed on the site.

If you have played with one of these, what are your thoughts? Good, bad, indifferent?

Thanks,
--sam

 

[Lalato]

The new article on the front page makes this an even more interesting router. I assume that people that currently have this or one of the other HP Buffalo routers will be able to upgrade to the DD-WRT based firmware.

 

[thiggins]

The new article on the front page makes this an even more interesting router. I assume that people that currently have this or one of the other HP Buffalo routers will be able to upgrade to the DD-WRT based firmware.

Yes. Also, if you don't care for DD-WRT, Buffalo tells me that you will be able to use their standard firmware.

 

[Master Bob]

... Buffalo WHR-HP-G300N. It's the single band version of the WZR-HP-G300NH

As far as I know, they are both single band.

The differences, with stock firmware, are the WZR-HP-G300NH uses 3 Tx and 3 Rx antennas, has Gigabit, and WDS (w/ latest firmware). Whereas, the WHR-HP-G300N uses 2 Tx and 2 Rx antennas, has 100MBit, and WDS support.

Those are the essential features, the WZR-HP-G300NH also has NAS and BitTorrent support.

In terms of hardware,

WHR-HP-G300N Hardware:
Chipset Atheros ar7240
RAM 32 MB
FLASH 4 MB

WZR-HP-G300NH Hardware:
Chipset Atheros ar9132
RAM 64 MB
FLASH 32 MB

It seems that the WHR-HP-G300N is just the younger brother of the WZR-HP-G300NH. What I am really curious about is whether or not using DD-WRT will even the playing field on both routers, in terms of features. Not to mention if there is any performance difference on the WHR-HP-G300N.

As it stands, there is only a $20 difference between the two routers (using Newegg ).

EDIT: Here is Buffallo's comparison chart.