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Summary: Pretty good router
Review: I've been pretty happy with this one for about a year now. Rarely drops wireless connections.It does, however, lock up pretty frequently if I use certain streaming connections, and it only affords 20 firewall port exclusions. That should be plenty for most people, unless you play a lot of online games, I suspect. Once it locks up it must be un/replugged to get any network activity at all. Other than that, a great router. Several other problems are easily fixed by updating to the latest firmware at Netgear's website.
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Summary: Lots of wasted time
Review: What a beautiful product- I just wish it worked half as good as it looks. I was very disappointed when, after spending about 4 hours + assistance from their technical support, was still not able to get the wireless feature to work properly. I had a lot of issues with my ISP telling me my problem was a router problem and Netgear technical support telling me it was a problem with my ISP. I finally decided, reluctantly, to pack it up and ship it back to Amazon and continue using my older two device system which I never had problems with. I really think the wireless feature of the unit was defective.
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Summary: Bad product, awful, awful support
Review: I'm on my third router, trying to get this wireless to work. Their tech support is in India, and they are both rude and incompetent. For whatever reason, even though I have a cable modem with Earthlink/Time Warner Cabled, when I use their router, it drops my wireless speed to less than that of a dial-up connection. For each router, I've walked with them through the steps (putting up with their smart-aleck attitude), with them finally telling me to take the router back to the store. When I asked about product quality, customer agent Meghna (the rudest) and supervisor Suchin said it didn't matter if it was the 10th one I had received, that I'd still have to take it back if I ever wanted it to work. I think my next stop is going to be Linksys.
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Summary: Easy Setup, range is excellent, great price
Review: Never had a network go up without some little hitch along the way before...this was 1-2-3. The router is in the basement of a three-story house, but measured throughput is the same (give or take a few kbits) in the kids' bedroom upstairs as it was for the pc downstairs, when it was the sole broadband connection. Some people say in their reviews they're not getting that kind of range...the problem might be in their PC's net adapter (I'm using two Netgear MA111 802.11b Wireless USB Adapters...don't pay more for a PCMCIA card if your laptop has USB, these are great!), or possibly a protocol conflict (I used to do tech support for an ISP, half the real problems were resolved by removing then reinstalling the network protocols correctly). You can see this router elsewhere for 10-20 dollars more. Couldn't be happier, but I am shy of giving it five stars -- if it still works a year from now without hassles, I'll mentally add one...
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Summary: Netgear Quality Control Issues
Review: After reading many reviews saying that the MR814 was a good wireless router and easy to setup, I purchased one from Amazon for a great price. It did setup super easy. Unfortunately, after being powered on for a few hours, it appears to heat up and have a component failure that makes it stop communicating with the cable modem. I have found many many forum's since saying they have had the same failure. Even looks like Netgear may have dumped the bad units on Amazon. After completing all the troubleshooting guides, and then running through the same with the hard to understand Netgear staff, the unit is being replaced by Netgear. We'll see if the second unit works better. Too bad they used cheap components, otherwise the router would be the best for the money.
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Summary: good product, NO rebate.
Review: Had this product for about eight months now. Although the wireless range could be a bit better, it has worked fine...
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Summary: Doesn't work for me w/ Verizon DSL
Review: Maybe it's me, but this router stopped working after 3 days and I couldn't get it back up. At one point I couldn't even log in to the router's homepage! I have Verizon DSL (Westell 2200 DSL modem). I replaced it with the D-Link 514, which has been working for 2 weeks right out of the box with the same DSL modem.
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Summary: Inexpensive, effective wireless solution - got my rebate too
Review: After reading other reviews here, I had low hopes of receiving the rebate for this product. But still I went for it because it was the most cost-effective solution for creating a wireless network in my home. It was a snap to set up; my PowerBook recognized the signal instantly. I've been surfing the Web from all over my house - even my backyard - for three months now, and I'm more than pleased with the product. Best of all, my rebate just arrived in the mail. Better late than never!
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Summary: great great great great great product
Review: I bought one a few months ago for my home network and simply love it. Took me just a few minutes to set up and configure - it took longer to decide where to set it and connect the wires to the DSL modem than it did to get the wireless part of it working. Now this past week I helped a friend go wireless - since he already had a free USB adapter made by DLink we decided to go with a DLink wireless router. It took me 3 full days of work plus several support calls and I could never get the thing working properly, and configuration was darn near impossible. We went to the store this afternoon, returned the old router and replaced it with this Netgear model. That was an hour ago. We are now running a wired connection on 1 PC and 2 wireless laptops, all perfectly - and most of that time was spent configuring the older Win98 laptop. Wonderful product. Highly recommended.
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Summary: caveat emptor
Review: Nice looking unit is the positive.
Now for the negative. Drops internet connections repeatedly about 15 minutes to 30 minutes. Tech support is lacking but tries to help with an inferior product. Had me update the firmware, but the unit still didn't work properly.
Unless you want to waste a day of your time like I did, buy another product. I personally decided to go with a tethered router.
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