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Summary: Best thing since sliced bread!
Review: For a small, in-home network, this is great. It is trivial to set up, and I have never had any problems with it once I got my ISP to clear my modem's MAC address it worked great. I have two PC's connected to it and sharing is NOT a problem.
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Summary: Nice little DSL router/firewall/DHCP server combo
Review: For a small, in-home network, this thing is great. It is trivial to set up, and I have never had any problems with it. As someone else noted, the power cord plugs into the wrong side which is annoying, but at the point where you are complaining about things like that, it must be a good product.
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Summary: Great Tool and Easy to Setup
Review: I am a telecomuter and needed something to route all my computers in the home. A great tool. Took me 2 minutes to set up and I get to my company's extranet...No Problem. Interface was extremely easy to use and interpret. I like my NetGear Router. I set up a network for my folks with a NetGear RT314. This one was equally easy to setup and has a few features such as port forwarding and parental controls that I thought were fairly user friendly to set up. A good buy.
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Summary: DNS problem like everyone else
Review: I bought mine exactly 1 year ago, and I have the same DNS complaints as everyone else. And it seemed to have cropped up after upgrading FIRMware to 1.5 from 1.2 or 1.3 half a year ago. If I am downloading or sharing something large at my max ADSL downspeed/upload, 96/640kbps, DNS failures are very common. And I frequently download from newsgroups, so this is a real issue. I imagine users realtime videa and audio will have the same problem.
It is easy to setup and use, and seems to work fine as a LAN router and print server, though I haven't used it much as one. It works fine if I am not maxing my net connection.
From the other reports of terrible customer service, I advise anyone to avoid this company if you have a similiarly priced alternative.
It is still much than using PPPoeT dialer software that the telco gives you to access DSL without a ADSL router.
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Summary: NetGear RP-114 over D-Link DI-704
Review: I bought the D-Link DI-704 for my home network, to share my DSL connection to four computers running Linux, Mac OS-X and Windows 2000 and XP. The DI-704 seemed to have all the features needed (NAT for my server, web-based configuration) for the task. Unfortunately, it wouldn't run for more than about 6 hours before freezing the network. Sometimes the subnet (inside the firewall) would remain working, sometimes not. I upgraded the firmware, tried several different configurations, reset the thing repeatedly, and always had the same problem: when network traffic got heavy (say, when my web server got several requests or when several of us were using the network), the thing would freeze, requiring a hardware reset. I ended up buying ther NetGear equivalent product (the RP-114), plugged it in, configured it and haven't had a single problem with it. It's worth the extra cash.
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Summary: Good Product -- Wonderful Technical Support
Review: I bought the Netgear RP114 in early December. I already had a Netgear DS104 and a hard-wired network in my house. There were problems with getting the new device up and running, but the technical support people (based in India) were wonderful. I had a little trouble understanding sometimes but we conducted about half of the interaction via E-mail (no problems understanding their writing). It was obvious very early on that the problem had nothing to do with the device -- all about firewalls, etc. but they gave me lots of things to look at (OS settings, interoperability among OS's, etc.) and finally recommended that I look for a firewall, etc. that might be mucking up the works. Since I cleared the obstructions I (and my family) have been thoroughly enjoying shared broad-band connection to the internet. It has been working as advertized. It was well worth the additional expense to have had the wonderful technical support.
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Summary: Neither Interface (HTTP or Telnet) is complete
Review: I bought this little unit because I've purchased netgear products before (a 4-port hub, and a 56K Modem/Router combo). The biggest thing I hated about the RP411 was the interface. The HTTP interface only allowed you to configure SOME of the routers settings. The Telnet interface, while more complete, didn't have the content filtering section or the DHCP listing that the HTTP interface had. (Maybe I just didn't see in the Telnet interface... this is entirely possible). I was used to using WinRoute Pro, a software router, which is so easy to setup that going from it to the netgear router was a step backwards. Even more than having to go into two different interfaces to configure the router, the filtering and port forwarding setup was so confusing. It took me days to figure out how to open the web and ftp ports. In my research for help in this area, the netgear site was unuseful. I did find many other people with the same questions and finally found one answer on someone personal website on how to do things properly. (Keep in mind I didn't read the router manual and as far as I'm concerned I shouldn't have to.) I do believe the router can do anything you want it to do, which is why I gave it 3 stars. I also believe you'll have a hard time configuring the router to do what you want it to do, which is why it didn't get 5 stars. I ended up returning the RP411 router and replacing it with the Siemens SpeedStream 2-Port DSL/Cable Router. It was cheaper and the interface was incredibly easy. It only comes with two ports, but I have hubs so no big deal. And to top it off the internet connection was faster using the SpeedStream rather than the RP411. I did notice when I was trying to fix my open port problem with the RP411 that many commented that the router slowed their internet access speed.
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Summary: Horrible router
Review: I don't know how to begin... This router randomly decides sometimes that it doesn't want to work. The internet will stop working. Completely. When I unplug my computer and try plugging in directly to the DSL modem, everything works fine. For some reason, this router messes with me every single day, and I'm on amazon now looking to buy a new one. 'Nuff Said.
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Summary: It's Horrible
Review: I don't know how to begin... This router randomly decides sometimes that it doesn't want to work. The internet will stop working. Completely. When I unplug my computer and try plugging in directly to the DSL modem, everything works fine. For some reason, this router messes with me every single day, and I'm on amazon now looking to buy a new one. 'Nuff Said.
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Summary: Horrible router
Review: I have similar problems as described by someone here. I have to disconnect the router often to get on the internet. It would stop working suddenly. Also Netgears' customer service is pathetic. I have been using this router for 2 years now.
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