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The WRT3200ACM comes in a nice enough box that provides a little explanation of how its Tri-Stream 160 technology helps, as well as MU-MIMO compared to MIMO, although most current routers offer MU-MIMO.
Apart from the router itself, there's not a whole lot in the box – just the UK power adapter, a thin Ethernet Cat 5 cable, and the documentation CD.
The device itself has four reasonably-sized detachable antennas. There are LEDs along the front of the unit to show whether the power is on, and activity on the broadband connection, 2.4GHz and 5GHz wavebands, eSATA, and the two USB connections. The right-hand section shows which of the four Gigabit Ethernet ports are currently hosting active wired connections.
The port allocation is comprehensive if not exceptional. There's a reasonably normal four Gigabit Ethernet ports, plus a single further Gigabit Ethernet port dedicated to the broadband connection. Next along is a single USB 3.0 port, with a combo USB 2.0 and eSATA port to the right. So this device can support most types of storage.
Overall, this is not the world's most exciting router. The blue-and-black appearance is classic Linksys and the physical specification is workmanlike. There's a 1.8GHz dual-core CPU inside with 512MB of RAM, so this is a mid-range device in terms of processing power too.
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