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Netgear WMB521 802.11B WIRELESS ROUTER ( WMB521NA )

Netgear WMB521 802.11B WIRELESS ROUTER ( WMB521NA )

List Price: $121.00
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Rating: 5 stars
Summary: great product at this low price
Review: Easy to set up. Works perfect for me.

Rating: 2 stars
Summary: Not a long lasting product
Review: Easy to setup and use. Good connections _initially_. However, product quality is low and support is horrible. After 4-5 months of use with this router, I am going back to my old Belkin router. The reason being dropped connections and expensive support options with the Netgear router.

Recommend this for short term and experimental usage.

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Works great, price is right!
Review: For such a cheap package, I did not have high expectations that it would work. I have now been using it for 5 days, and so far so good. Installation took a couple of hours - due in large part I think to my Arescom NetDSL 800 modem and its funky settings than anything to do with this product. (Last time I set that modem up with a wired router, it took just as long).
Range of wireless access seems to be good - I can use my laptop down in my basement, 2 floors away from the router.
One negative - that stops it from getting a 5 star rating - is the fact that the NetGear configuration utility which monitors your connections, seems to arbitarily stop working. It doesn't affect access to the LAN or WAN, but it's a small irritant nonetheless.
Good product, great price (...)from NetGear.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Great wireless investment.
Review: Great product! Easy installation! I was surprised as to how easy it was to set up 4 computers 3 wired and 1 wireless. I had Linksys in the past and was happy to find that NetGear was as easy to install. Reminder: Secure you wireless system from War Drivers by following instructions found on website.

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Works great
Review: Has anyone who bought this received as part of the package the GPL source code for the router and NIC?
Thanks

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Works as advertised...
Review: Having just bought this combo package on Aug 20, I can tell you that both the router and the notebook adapter work as advertised. The setup took about 15 minutes, but only because I wanted to customize my wireless settings. I am giving this package a rating of 4 stars because occassionally, I do notice a slowdown in the wireless network. Have not looked into it as yet, but it's not something that could be characterized as a "show-stopper" (at least till now). I have a older Dell CPx notebook with 128 MB and a 500 MHz processor and was concerned that the notebook card might not work with it - but had no issues at all there. I also have an HP Pavilion and a Vonage (Cisco) ATA wired into the router. Couldn't ask for more for the price (check out the rebates being offered currently by Netgear).

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: not a quality product
Review: i got 2 units from netgear and i was unable to get either of them working. the first one wouldnt power up correctly and the second one would not work for more than an hour at the most.

i have been unable to get this router working correctly for more than an hour. the router fails after an hour. an immediate re-start of the router or resetting did not help. for some reason, if i wait for about 2-3 hours before i power it back on, i can get it to work again.

the web interface is easy enough to use and all, but if the base product doesnt work well .....

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Great, easy to setup
Review: I have setup 10 WiFi systems and the Netgear WiFi Access Point (AP) and PC Card both worked flawlessly out of the box. The AP has automatic search for an existing DSL/Cable setup and automatically configured itself.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Awesome and easy
Review: I have to say, I was a little concerned about this product after reading about some of the difficulties other buyers have experienced. I was also a bit nervous about installing it myself, since I am not what you would call a computer expert.

From Day One after installing it, though, I have been impressed. It gets fantastic range throughout my entire house, even through walls and heavy, metal objects. Signal strength on my computers is almost always between 90-100%, and has NEVER dipped below 73%.

As for the network installation itself, it was easy and took a total of about an hour (and that includes installation and configuration of wireless cards on 2 computers).

And you can't beat the price on this thing. I highly recommend this and other Netgear wireless network products.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Works with Windows ME and Compaq persario 1700T
Review: I would like to share my thoughts about this kit. Before this I bought NetworkEveryWhere (CISCO/Linksys) product kit. That kit wireless adapter did not work with Windows ME and Compaq persario notebook computer. That adapter have a hardware conflict (memory and I/O)
This kit works perfect and I installed it in 30 minutes. Make sure to load the software (wireless adapter) before you insert the card. Step by Step instruction card is good. However, it is better if you use the software CD to install the access point.
It has very good step by step things that you can do to install the access point.


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