NETGEAR WNR834B-100NAS Wireless N Router
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Customer Review: WNR834 - Unreliable wireless
Summary: 1 Stars
I've own this device for 2 years now and I'm more displeased now than ever before. As we continue to purchase more wireless devices we have become ever more frustrated with this product. We havent had any success acquiring positive solutions from Netgear. I recently downgraded to a competitors wireless g router and we're completely satisfied now. The range of this Netgear router is paultry at best. Even if we're using our ipad 10 feet from the router, we cant keep a solid connection to the router. Our wireless devises keep a connection for about 3 mins before we have to manually reconnect again. When I purchased this product, it was top of the line in capability and price. It has NOT been worth it.
It's easy to install, setup and administer; however, capability and realibility are just not there.
Customer Review: Great Draft N router with DD-WRT v24 sp1
Summary: 5 Stars
Frys had these in plain netgear refurb brown box for only $34.99 during the labor day weekend sale. I picked up three cause I wanted to use two as a repeater/bridge and one as the main base station. With the standard netgear firmware, this router is pretty average, and slow for an N router, but upgrade the firmware to the latest DD-WRT v24 sp1, you just made this cheap N router a blazing $300.00+ router. The DD-WRT firmware gave much more configurable options, one actually increasing the tx range. Sorry neighbors. :) My throughput is between 230 to 260 mbp!!!!! Signal stays in five bars (excellent range).
This router is great for tweaking and would only recommend it if you are able to get this router at a cheap price and upgrading the firmware to DD-WRT. I say it blows away the Linksys WRT54G.
Customer Review: A Networking Nightmare: avoid the WNR834B like plague
Summary: 1 Stars
I've been buying Netgear routers for a decade+... But this thing has been nothing but a hassle since it came out of the shrinkwrap: dropped signals, cramped bandwidth, and most recently a complete failure which compromised the router's (already buggy) software and rendering it a sleek paperweight. Netgear technical "support" is a maze of voicemail and nontechs reading from xeroxed instructions on the other side of the planet. After 2 hours getting to an actual human (in Karachi), determining that the router was in fact dead, I was informed that they would send me a REFURBISHED replacement in about TWO WEEKS OR I could elect to pay them to replace it in a week... all the while sympathizing with me off of cue cards and refusing to actually solve the problem. An embarassing, shoddy way to do business. NEVER AGAIN.Customer Review: Pretty Happy so far
Summary: 4 Stars
It was time for a router upgrade and I went with this model. It was recently marked down to only 80 bucks at Circuit City, so I went for it. First, the negatives... it was not easy to set up and I am very saavy when it comes to networks. The wizard was terrible and I actually had to call tech support. I was only on hold for 30 seconds! Wow, what a nice surprise. On the flip side, I could barely understand him due to his heavy accent, but he had me up and running in a few short minutes.
That aside, the product works fantastic. I have it hooked up to a laptop and two Xbox 360's and it runs like a champ so far. Screaming fast speeds and no signal problems yet, although I do have a pretty small home. The automatic firmware upgrade feature is VERY nice and updated in just a few minutes.
Customer Review: Works fantatic!
Summary: 5 Stars
I just got the product today from Amazon and decided on it because Consumer Reports rates this model #1. When I opened up the box and tried setting it up, the CD didn't start up. I have Vista 64bit and not all CD's will work on my system so I called the customer service number listed on the support browser that poped up and they not only had me up and running in less than 15 minutes, they also had my laptop that has an HP wireless card connected within those same 15 minutes and they also help me set up maximum security with this unit. I did not have to update any software or drivers either.
Great customer service and very knowledgable as well.
Granted that I'm very happy from the first day, I'm hoping that it stays that way.