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Summary: Not a good wireless access point
Review: The netgear router is just too basic. It can't set non-standard gateways. Its signal seems pretty weak - only works for about 100 feet. I am off to buy a new one, as I've just had enough of this one.
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Summary: Steady, Reliable, Once You Get it Working
Review: I am using the Netgear MR314 wireless router a with Verizon DSL Wirespeed connection.I had to update the firmware on the router before I could get anything to work. However once that was done, everything was a charm. Setting the SSID and the WEP encryption is easy and recommended so as not to have your bandwidth stolen by your next door neighbor! I've never had a problem with connections dropping and I am also using the netgear MA401 wireless card with this router. Remember: Unless a product is WI-FI certified it is best to use like brands to insure compatibility, however most people get excellent results mixing brands even though there is always a chance that non WI-FI 802.11b products may not work together.
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Summary: Netgear Nightmare!
Review: This Netgear router will lose its connection often to wirless cards in computers that have Netgear wireless cards. After ten months in service,the tranmitting mode went out.Called customer service for a RMA number(required) and told to hold for 55 minutes. Never got through! Buy another brand!
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Summary: Simple to setup, works great
Review: I recently replaced my original Apple Airport (Graphite) with a Netgear MR314.
The MR314 was very simple to setup. It took me less than 10 minutes to get it up and running, and connected to my DSL service using PPPoE. The router comes with a 10 Mbps WAN port, 4 10/100 Mbps LAN ports, and off course supports 802.11b wireless clients. The clients that I have connected to the MR314 are a Mac PB/G3 (Pismo) with an original airport card, a Sony VAIO with a MA401 PCMCIA card, and a hardwired Mac G4. One of the advantages of the MR314 is that it supports AppleTalk routing between the WLAN and LAN clients (although not between WAN and LAN/WLAN interfaces. This allows me to fileshare between the G4 and PB using AppleTalk. Note that Netgear specifically states that the MR314 doesn't support AppleTalk, although the router does. Configuring the router is a snap through either the web interface, or the telnet interface. The router permits restricting wireless clients via MAC address, and also supports 64-bit and 128-bit WEP. Enabling 128-bit WEP doesn't affect performance from either the Mac or the PC client. The router also supports pass-through VPN connections from NATed clients -- something the original Apple Airport does not. I get terrific WLAN reception from about 50 feet away. One complaint I have is that the MR314 doesn't come with a replaceable antenna to increase range, but I don't need increased range where I live currently. The firewall works okay, although it doesn't permit stealth mode operation. It can be configured to not respond to ICMP echo requests (ping request) on the WAN port, which gives sites like grc.com the impression that the WAN port is "stealthed". However, even with ping on the WAN port disabled, the router can be detected by directly attempting to connect to various ports (TCP 21, TCP 23 etc.) on the router. Overall, I am very satisfied with the product.
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Summary: disappointing
Review: we're constantly needing to reboot this gadget after it declines to transmit packets. we suspected the dhcp server but switching to static addresses didn't fix it. it clicks all the time. why? it's powered by a wallwart. what is clicking? the o/s is pathetic. the u/i poor. contrary to an earlier reviewer (who probably didn't rtfm) it does offer a firewall, which runs entirely steath (checked against dslreports and grc). still, we won't buy another netgear box after this shoddy experience.
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Summary: Works great, easy to set up
Review: I think this router is excellent. It was easy to set up. The documentation is easy to follow and does a great job of leading you through the setup process. Once you get it set up, just put it in a corner and let it do its work. I haven't had any problems with this item.
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Summary: Terrible Router, go for Linksys
Review: This router has many problems. First of all the admin page does not work with internet explorer because of errors in the internal javascript code. The tech tried to blame it on IE instead. Second, it keeps dropping connection and having to get reset. It wasted a lot of my time. I set up a similar network but with Linksys and it works great. I recomment that you don't buy this
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Summary: Range was limited to the same room
Review: This item did not work out for me - range was limited to a single room within my house. Returned.
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Summary: Outstanding wireless router stays up
Review: I went through 2 other wireless routers from competing companies (returned both of them in less than a month) before purchasing the MR314. First and foremost, the router does NOT hang up. In the 10 months that I have owned it, it has locked up once. The others would lock up DAILY! The range was more than sufficient for my 1100 square foot apartment. Occasionally my neighbor would piggyback off of my wireless router for his work. The 4 ports allows me to hook up other non-wireless computers when I need to. The configuration process was incredibly simple and easy - again much easier than the previous routers. You will not be disappointed with this product.
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Summary: Very disappointed
Review: This unit cannot be used as an access point compared to other units. Also after testing its security through various test sites, grc.com, security.norton.com, and scan.sygate.com this unit does not hide ports as well as other units also. Also static routing seems to interrupt connections. I would not recommend this unit to other people.
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