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Summary: quick and easy
Review: I bought this along with my Toshiba laptop, which has a built in wifi. I had both up and surfing the net in less than 15 minutes. Easiest setup I have ever had.
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Summary: Great for older homes!
Review: I have a large double brick home with plaster/slat walls. It is next to impossible to run wires through these walls. The Netgear wireless router solved my problems by letting me have my computer downstairs and an additional computer for my son upstairs. With the router placed between a computer and the cable modem, we share our internet connection and could add up to 49 additional wireless NICs and 3 more wired. Money well spent!
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Summary: Traded in the Linksys
Review: I tried the linksys version of this and it worked OK, but I got frustrated at the quality of the connection. I had a freind who got this unit and had good luck so I bougght it to give it a test drive. I must say, it works much much better than the linksys in terms of connection distance and speed.
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Summary: Range is Poor but works well
Review: I was very displeased with the range of this product. I live in a 600sq ft apt and the farthest I am ever away from the product is 30 ft. The second a wall pops up (im talking about those paper thin, non loadbearing apt walls) the signal strength drops. Two walls and signal strength drops to low. All while I am only 30 ft away. I sincerely do not believe the claim of 500 ft range. other than that, XP pro hooked up the components within 5 minutes and effortlessly.
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Summary: Need to power off and on
Review: The installation of product is easy, but the technical support is HORRIBLE. The level 1 support specaialist was not able to figure out that the firmware has to be upgraded and I wasted 4 hours of my time, after that it worked fine for 3 days and then I started to loose the internet connection, powered off the router and rebooted the computer,it started to work fine, but I lost the connection after 10 minutes, it started to happen every time I switched on the PC, it works fine for 10 minutes and again it drops the connection. In order for me to verify that it was the router, I disconnected the router and used my old wired router, I did not have the disconnect issue. After this I installed Netgear, I am having the same issues, I talked to support and they told me to ship it back to the Vendor. My recommendation is not to buy this product from my experience.
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Summary: Sturdy and aesthetically pleasing!
Review: The Netgear folks have done it well -- a sturdy and aesthetic 802.11b product offering that most of us can finally afford. I am reviewing the new MR814v2 router, smaller and lighter than its predecessor. I started by testing direct network connection through one of the 4 ports -- its Web interface is clean and easily understood, and more reliable than Linksys's. I then installed the Netgear 802.11b wireless card on my laptop, and its MAC was automatically detected by the MR814 (default configuration has no security or encryption enabled, which I strongly advise to do after successful wireless hookup "in the open"). Total time to install, get connected and secure the wireless connection: 15 minutes. I even had time to upgrade my router's firmware from their Web site. Then tried it around our two-floor townhome, backyard, etc., and getting very good to good signal strength in the farthest corners. When my DSL only gives me 1.1 Mbps downstream, this signal strength is more than enough for surfing. File copy speed between my laptop and my Linux server was also very decent. Strongly recommended!
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Summary: Great Value
Review: I had no problems connecting this wireless router to Comcast Cable. Automatic. Easy. Fast. Checked out the wireless functionality with Palm Tungsten C WiFi with no problems. Acceptable range. Great value for the money. Don't know why people have problems getting this router up and running.
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Summary: You Can't Go Wrong on this Deal!
Review: Used the Netgear MR814 4-port cable/dsl router to create a wireless connection to my Dell Inpiron 1100 notebook using a new Netgear MA401 wireless PC Card. Elapsed Time: 5 minutes. Took less time than cutting the UPC lable off the bottom of the box to claim my... rebate from Netgear. Purchased through Amazon.com and shipped free with arrival 4 days. Price, source, and ease of software and card installation are important to me. This has all that and my highest recommendations!
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Summary: So far so GOOD
Review: For the price this NETGEAR WIRLESS router can not be beat,
buy now before the rebate expires!
Brand name company ,quality product.
Very easy install and lots of features for those who like to tweak,
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Summary: Not compatible with linux wireless
Review: Bought this unit and found out it is not compatible with my linux system. My linux found the wireless connection, but can't talk to it. I changed and used DLink-614+. Power up and "wa la" it works. So highly not recommend if you have linux system. Windows work and coverage is good.
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