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 Changing router brand not possible July 29, 2010
Rajin Cajun (Lafayette, LA)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Sales document failed to mention a critical issue...something that pops up as soon as you load the installation disk: if you are using replacing a router attached to a cable modem, you cannot change brands. I had a lynksys router. On screen instructions said I had to stay with a lynksys router! That would have been helpful information BEFORE I bought it!
 Wow, I should have gotten this a long time ago! July 28, 2010
Jonas Brock (PDX)
Although I've only had this for a day, I'm quite impressed. My old Netgear G router was buckling under the weight of 2 PCs, 3 laptops, 3 game consoles, 2 iPhones and a printer. I usually try not to spend this much for a router, but it was worth it, and more. Easy setup (10 minutes tops), and blazing speeds for everything, even when most are going at he same time.
Fantastic July 24, 2010
Tech Junkie (Ann Arbor, MI)
This is a great device if you are looking for a combination wireless access point and router to work with your cable modem. Pros for this device: easy set up and lots of features. With other similar devices you have to fiddle around with changing your static IP address (which I found to be difficult) for installation. I have a 64 bit system so I was a little nervous that there would be set up issues. All I did was put in the set up disc - it spun away - installation complete in under 5 min. VERY EASY!
 Consistent with the reviews July 23, 2010
Tired Poppy (Northern California, USA)
At first I was a bit hesitant to order this router, mostly because of the negative comments in the reviews. But after my current 5+ year-old Netgear router dropped my VPN connection for the umpteenth time I decided to take the plunge.
I shouldn't have waited as long as I did...it was simple to install and configure. Sure, I had to download the latest firmware before I could successfully configure my guest networks - but once that was done, I was able to complete the configuration through the web interface. I didn't bother with the installation CD, since I already had experience with the web interface with my old Netgear.
The only thing that I had a problem with, was getting the 300Mb/s link on my 5GHz band. After a bit of searching on the 'Net with Google, I found out that you can't get 300Mb/s with PSK. Once I changed to AES, the wifi on my laptop indicated a 300Mb/s - cool!
The router does run a little hot, but since I have it on end using the supplied stand it doesn't seem to be a problem. Granted it's only been a couple of weeks in use, but (knock on wood) so far, so good!
And did I mention the cool look of the different colored blinky lights?
Haven't tried QoS or traffic monitoring, so can't comment on that. But overall I'm quite satisfied with this product and would readily recommend to anyone. I still have older 100Mb/s wired and wireless-g equipment, neither of which makes use of the 1Gb/s wired or 300Mb/s wireless capabilities, but as the old stuff ages and gets replaced...this router will be ready to support the next generation equipment on my LAN.
 Great range but doesn't work with firewalls July 23, 2010
Donald F. Freeman (Morris Plains, NJ USA)
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
If have a firewall on your computer, don't buy a Netgear router. The internet won't work for more than a few seconds, if at all. I unfortunately didn't learn this until after I'd bought my second router from them. The first died after about three years when it was fried by a power surge caused by our electricity coming back on after an outage. I've always used heavy-duty surge protectors, so I couldn't believe that killed it. Nothing had ever happened to anything before.
I kept thinking my problem had something to do with my firewall settings, so I talked to their tech support many times and changed several settings without success. They told me their firewall (Zone Alarm Internet Security Suite) hardly ever has problems with routers, so I finally decided to call Netgear. A bit to my surprise, they admitted that their routers generally don't work very well with firewalls, so they tell their customers to turn them off before going online. They're working on the issue and hope to have it solved someday, so I should keep checking for firmware updates. Kind of unbelievable if you ask me. Why should I have to turn off my firewall and lose my protection? If other people in my house didn't rely on the router for internet access, I get a different one in a second.
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