Since we first started reviewing wireless AC routers, the marketplace has seen slow but steady evolution towards less expensive solutions and continual evolution on the technology front. Linksys? new EA9200 tri-band router certainly hasn't been designed to give entry-level consumers access to affordable AC networks. Rather, it can be considered a bleeding-edge device that offers three distinct and individual channels for today's wide array of devices.

Linksys EA9200 is not your typical wireless router and in fact it is not even remotely close to anything else they?ve released to date. Up until now Linksys has been trying to recapture lost market share and convince consumers that the 'old' Linksys was back and ready to shake-up the marketplace, channeling the memories of their legendary WRT54G. We saw glimpses of this strategy last year with the WRT1900AC but this new model takes things to a whole new level in an attempt to change the status quo in a big way.