NETGEAR WNR2000 Wireless-N Router
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Manufacturer: NetgearAudio: English (Original Language)
Format: CD
Platform: Windows
Model: WNR2000
Color: Black
Product features:
- Physical Characteristics-Height-7.0 inches
- Netgear Wireless-N Router
- Netgear - WNR2000 Wireless-N Router
- Wireless Specifications - Wi-Fi Standard - IEEE 802.11n (draft); Wireless Specifications - ISM Band; Wireless Specifications - ISM Maximum Frequency - 2.40 GHz; Wireless Specifications - Wireless Transmission Speed - 300 Mbps
- Security - 64/128 bits WEP WPA2-PSK WPA-PSK; Interfaces/Ports - Fast Ethernet Port; Interfaces/Ports - Number of Network (RJ-45) Ports - 4; Interfaces/Ports - Management Port; Interfaces/Ports - Number of Broadband (RJ-45) Ports - 1
- Management - QoS Remote management; Management & Protocols - Security Features - Intrusion detection and prevention (IDS) Denial-of-service (DoS) Network Address Translation (NAT) Stateful packet inspection (SPI); Power Description - Input Voltage - 2
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Customer Review: The WNR2000 Wireless Router: *Everything* you Need to Know
Summary: 4 Stars
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In making the WNR2000, Netgear has been ambitious; creating a low-cost, reliable wireless router that provides several operating modes; working as a standard wired router, as an advanced wireless base station using the cutting-edge wireless `N' standard while maintaining backwards compatibility to the tried-and-true 802.11-g standard. Netgear bundles all this together with simple setup, control and security and adds convenience features that make it something special.
Pros and cons
Pros: Very good speed
Robust wireless connection
Laughably easy setup
Very easy to secure
Simple, web-page-based controls
The incredible off-switch
Cons: Non-finalized standard for full, 802.11-n performance
Getting the full, extraordinary, `N' standard speed and range requires additional equipment
The fun stuff
Setup
I have setup wired networks but I had no prior experience in setting up a wireless one. I had no trouble setting up the WNR2000.
Installing the WNR2000 requires that you install its control software on at least one computer in your network to control and use the router *before* you hook up the unit. This is the only thing you have to worry about and it is simplicity itself: if you can read and move your hands, you can do it, but Netgear has taken the trouble of taping over the connectors with a warning label for those who are feeling too frisky to follow instructions that day.
It went surprisingly well. As I was installing it, I kept waiting for the other shoe to drop but it never did. The installation really was a matter of following directions that boiled down to: "insert disk, install software, attach router and turn it on." I followed the steps and, presto, it was up and running.
There was an uncomfortable moment when I found that my test model had come without a paper manual (I needed an initial username and password) and I experienced about 30 seconds of `uh-oh' before I went to Netgear's website and downloaded the PDF of the manual.
If you *do* feel that frisky and get tangled up, Netgear provides help-line numbers. How good are their support-lines? I have no idea: The setup was too easy for me to need them.
Control
Like all routers I've had experience with, the WNR2000 uses a, web browser-based control system. You type an address into your web browser and a page opens on your machine that handles the router's controls. The webpage's menus give you the options you need for upgrades security and control.
Here, there was one problem: giving the router a new password was there in the menus, but I couldn't change my username, big deal. After the initial setup, menus take you through security where you can limit user access to offensive websites and establish the degree of security that makes you comfortable. This, too, is simple with options that go from, `we're open: come on down!!" to 128-bit paranoia.
Speed and range
The Netgear WNR2000 is fast. Even without going the full 802.11-n route, the unit seemed, `felt,' faster in its 100Mb/s wired mode than my own router. During the late-night hours of optimum internet access, pages sometimes screamed onto the screen. I was very surprised by the unit's performance.
Much the same thing was true even when I reconfigured the network and ran the unit through my original router. It still seemed that I had very good speed even though it was no longer running directly off the cable modem: strange but true. I have no idea why this is so.
Its wireless performance was no less impressive. Wireless routers function best (and, I would bet, are usually tested) across big expanses of open air with unobstructed line of sight between receivers--in other words, in situations where you could shine a laser-pointer from the router to whatever it's attached to. That isn't how things work in the real world. In the real world, things get in the way. I live on the second floor of an apartment building. I went downstairs and out the door and connected; fine and dandy.
That would have been enough for everything that I do, but then I went across the avenue--that is, across four lanes of traffic--and I was still connected. This was jaw-dropping. The signal was diminished, yes, but not only was I standing a good seventy to eighty feet distant, but the direct line-of-sight between my ipod and the router now pointed through two layers of brick wall! Suffice it to say that I was again impressed.
The two buttons
The Netgear WNR2000 has two buttons on it, one on the front and another on the back. The first is a connect button that the documentation says allows you to connect new machines to the network by sending them a timed invitation from the router. Sounds great, but doing things manually works fine and gives you both control and understanding. I didn't bother trying to figure it out.
The second button is very, very, very cool: it's an off switch, as in `wow! It's an off switch!!' It is also proof positive that Netgear has thought outside the box when designing the WNR2000.
Routers are designed to go up and be left running for years at a time, but every now and again, you have to disconnect one or turn it off. Something needs resetting; you're adding machines to, or taking them off of a network and every time you do, you have to pull the cord on the router's power-supply and you usually end up standing there like an idiot, holding the plug in your hand to keep it from disappearing into that rat's nest of wires you've got behind your desk. You are going to love the off switch!
Imagine: your cable modem has crashed and you need to reset everything: Click. You need to upgrade a set of desktop machines but leave all the wiring exactly as it is: Click. You want to turn off wifi completely so the pimply-ones can't come by and work on your password while you're sleeping? Click.
I love the off-switch. I adore it. It's brilliant: I want to put a ring on its finger.
The bottom line:
The bottom line for a reviewer always comes down to one thing: "would I buy this thing with my own money?" and I'm happy to say that my answer is "yes, definitely."
The WNR2000 is easy to set up and use; it's every bit as fast as it should be in wired mode and its wireless range and power surpass my expectations. In addition to this, it has room to grow. With any of a range of inexpensive cards or USB devices (for example the[[ASIN: B0011E324K Linksys Dual-Band Wireless-N USB Network Adapter]] ) I could get the full wireless `N' performance increase in range and speed--basically more of both than I would know what to do with.
For a home- or small business user, a router's real power is not in its connection to the internet. It is the router's speed in connections between machines and the WNR2000 has both.
The full speed of a wired connection is almost-seventy times the speed of a residential cable internet connection, and the only things that make one router better than another one are the features and the price. The Netgear WNR2000 has advantages in both. It would be great for a small business setting with a lot of data going from one computer to another, for a home-user with multiple computers and a lot of music files or even someone who just wanted to be able to bring his [[ASIN: B001FA1O0E iPod touch]] online at home.
For users with a greater need for speed, its big brother, the WNR3500 shares the WNR2000's features only its wired speed between machines is ten times faster--1000Mb/s.
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The full propellerhead story on the new 802.11-n standard can be found on wikipedia: here
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