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Summary: extra bang for your buck
Review: This is a nice piece of gear because it saves having to get a wireless hub and router separately, which frees up the 4 ports for just computers, and eliminate extra wires and boxes and power cables.Router:
A great feature of this particular router is that it can email you activity logs which show what websites were visited on that day through the router. You can also block access to websites or any site that contains a keyword, so this could be useful in small office and home (children) use. (By viewing the website activity logs, you can find out which sites to block so that next time the user tries to go there it will say "blocked by netgear" and you will be notified of the attempt.) You can also lockout times and dates. This Router does NOT have a firewall built in- even though this box looks like the netgear firewall router (the one for the same price without the integrated wireless hub). Wireless hub-
Average range. Security wise, you can set it up with 128 bit WEP and with MAC Address authentication, which secures your network to a reasonably safe level. ALSO MAKE SURE YOU CHANGE THE ADMIN PASSWORD FOR THIS ROUTER, AND FOR ANY ROUTER.
Cons: The antenna can not be changed or removed. The unit is not designed to be hung from a wall like the SMC wireless hub. (WHY would you do that? To get better wireless range).
THE UNIT
The unit itself, like all netgear products, is metal and a nice dark hue of blue, with several blinking indicator lights. I am happy with my one, which uses a DSL connection with static IP address to feed 4 computers and two wireless laptops.
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Summary: Great value and easy setup.
Review: I've had previous luck with Netgear products (RT314) before and decided to give this one a shot especially since the price was right. While I'm not a networking guru I do know a bit about computers and the basics of home networking. Even if you're not that savvy with computer hardware I don't think you should have any problem with this device. The router worked right out of the box and was really easy to setup. Just plug it in, hook up your ethernet cables (wired) and setup your SSID correctly (wireless) and you should be all set to go. Right now I have this router working wirelessly with a Netgear MA101 USB adapter, Netgear MA401 card, and an Intel Pro USB wireless adapter. In addition to that it also works with my friends Linksys wireless PCI card (I think it was the WMP11). I also have one stand alone computer linked via standard cable. As for the range, right now I'm on my laptop about 30-40 ft away from the router with about 3 walls (4 if the closet counts) in between me and router. The signal lights changes from green to yellow occasionally whenever I change the orientation of the laptop but I don't notice any lag in transmision signal during this time. So far I haven't had any problems with this devie. It worked as well as the RT314 I had but gave me the added bonus of surfing the web on my patio now as well :) Just a word of advice for all: Make sure and change the Admin password for this router when you set it up.
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Summary: Up and Wireless in 15 Minutes
Review: Traded up to wireless from the Netgear RT314 I bought from Amazon 18 months ago(Sold it used on Amazon for [price] in 2 days). Followed the set up sheet. Up in 5 minutes on the Cable Modem and RJ45 to my PC. Setup my Netgear wirless PCMCIA card on my laptop and was on-line in 10 minutes. I then walked the parameter of my yard(small) without ever losing connectivity and the signal strength only going down to 30% a few places. I have a 2 story 2600 sq ft stucco house and the router sits on the 2nd floor in the center of the house. I'd say the worst signal strength was traveling through 1 floor and at least 2 interior walls and 1 exterior wall about 120 feet. Indoors I see the strength go down to 60% at worst. I run with full 128 WEP encryption. I've had the router almost 2 months now and love it. I recommend Netgear for best bang for the buck mainly.
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Summary: Easy to setup, reliable connection
Review: Not sure of what to check in Wireless Routers, I read reviews on Amazon and other sites and almost all of them said the same things about all the router brands -- very reliable, easy to setup etc etc. So I used price to be the deciding factor. I noticed that each week, a new brand offers discounts. So I picked the brand that was the cheapest at that time and Netgear happened to be the one - so I went ahead and bought it and I am so glad for purchasing such a reliable and easy-to-configure one. Since I already configured my wired Belkin router for my ISP, I decided to connect the Wireless router to the wired Belkin, so I did not have to go thru the configuration process of the router. As a result, I spent a total of 10 minutes to (a) Open boxes (b) connect the equipment (c) Install PC Card software. Bingo - I was online and the connection is great. Some things to consider before buying this: a) Win2K users: The PC Card asks you to have your Win2K CD available. Not sure why. b) On the Wireless configuration utility, I do not see the "available networks" tab that was on LinkSys config utility. So I cannot jump to my neighbor's network. It might be because I did not install the router software on my laptop.
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Summary: A good device if you have patience
Review: I bought this device after lots of good experience with NetGear products in the past. Running XP Pro on 2 Dell machines, a PC and a notebook. The wired connection to my PC has been problem free once the XP firewall was disabled. The wireless connection, however, is another story. I kept losing my internet connection on my notebook, but the wireless adapter was connected to the router with no problems. My first phone call to tech support led me to assigning a static IP address to my wireless connection on the notebook. this resolved the problem for about an hour, then I lost the internet connection again. The only way to re-gain it was to unplug and reset the router. My 2nd call to tech support was a disaster as the support "engineer" was rude, and un-intelligible through a thick accent. Not the best combination for a telephone tech-support. The bit that I could understand of his advice was that it was a Windows problem and I needed to contact MS for support. Another great moment in customer service. My 3rd call to Netgear solved the problem. The support guy was helpful, polite and knew what he was talking about. He advised me to upgrade the firmware and if I lost the connection again, to return the unit. No problems since the upgrade. So like I said if you have patience, you won't be sorry you bought this.
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Summary: Wireless ATT@home user
Review: I installed the Netgear MR314 today and had it working in less than 1 minute. During the time I ordered the product and the time I got it about a week. I read Netgear's Product manual. So I knew how to do it right away. The website has the ISP installation guide for all the popular cable and DSL connections. I have a 3 com cable modem and 3 wired computers and one laptop with the US Robotics 22 Mbs max cardbus. Windows 98SE, ME and XP all worked. I also recommend reading about 802.11b security and suggestions like change defaults, SSID, password changing, WEP encryption and MAC address so you don't have any eavesdropping. Extreme tech was a good source.I don't believe you can turn off the SSID broadcast. I think that would be a nice feature. It doesn't matter to have the 11 Mbs max connection since ATT@Home is not faster than this. I guess very large file transfers may take some time. NAT is the only type of firewall for this router. It works well. I use black ice defender on one computer and nothing gets though, but what I want. There are some routers with SPI which is a true firewall. They cost more and I believe will protect you from denial of service.
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Summary: Nicely built but has big issues
Review: I bought this thing about a year ago and it worked pretty well. For a while. But after having to reboot the thing every few weeks I started to get a little tired of it. Now, I am not trying to run a lot of machines through it - a Linux box on ethernet, a Sony Clie, Tivo, and an iMac over 802.11, plus Packet8 for my phone service over ethernet. No great strain on the processor. So, why does the thing insist on locking up so much? To add to the problem, you can be going along just nicely on ethernet and suddenly the 802.11 dies. Now, asside from the thing croaking and needing rebooting weekly, I get to do a complete factory reset once a month, wiping out all the stuff I have programmed into it (WEP keys, etc), because the thing will completely quit responding. One would think that the problems are related to something overheating. But no, that is not it. That leaves the unit's firmware to be suspect. After reading about Netgear's sloppy code writing and their DoS attack against the University of Wisconsin time servers, I have to believe software is the issue. If they wrote code as bad as that which caused the UofWisc flood, I am sure awful code abounds in all their products.
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Summary: Good price; rock solid performance with a variety of devices
Review: After trying with three other brands (Linksys, Belkin and one I can't remember), this is the router that finally was able to bring together the parts of my network. It's installation and installation were straightforward. It hasn't had any issues with any of my networking options (one wired PC, one PCI-card adapter on a desktop, one USB wireless adapter on a desktop, one USB wireless adapter on a TiVo --Linux!-- and one PCMCIA card on a laptop). It recognized and communicated with each of these from the first plug in, and it gives good signal strength from its location in one corner of the house to the farthest device which is one floor up and on the opposite side. MAC filtering and WEP configurations were also easy. Any vendor can ship a bad unit of course-- but this has handled it's networking across every available adapter type and multiple operating systems without missing a beat.
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Summary: Great for the price
Review: This is a great little router. I've used it for 18 months with only a couple of minor problems. Range is adequate but not exceptional. I have a large house and there are dead spots where the wireless signal just isn't stong enough to work. The ability to add an external antenna would probably help, but alas, Netgear did not see fit to include that feature in the model. My second problem happened just a couple of weeks ago. The wireless functions quit altogether. Netgear's tech support (like most anymore unfortunatly, was of almost no help. The read from a script if you can get past the voice-mail tangle at all. Finally I downloaded the latest firmware update and uploaded it to my router. BAM! it started working again like a champ. Too bad it took so long to figure that out. While I was trying to work it out I ordered a new MR814 which arrived today. Now I don't need that new one.
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Summary: Good unit.
Review: I purchased this for my brother in law. Setup was good and the quality of the card seem to be on par with the rest of them. The signal strength isn't as good as my Linksys. It had trouble getting through some thick walls, but it's an old house. I've never been a netgear fan, but the price of this after rebates was a good deal at the time. Overall I was impressed. I'd buy Netgear again.
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