NETGEAR WPN824 RangeMax Wireless Router

By Yahoo! Shopping User  Jul 21, 2009

Just Great

By Yahoo! Shopping User  Sep 16, 2008 | 1 out of 2 found this NETGEAR WPN824 RangeMax Wireless review helpful

Pros: EZ to set up

Cons: None

I am not a Techie and I got it install and running before I knew it. I really don't know what I did, so let's say, "it set it's self up" and it has been great. I have a 3 level, 5000 square foot house and I have wireless everywhere.

By Yahoo! Shopping User  Jan 23, 2008

Not bad for the price

By Yahoo! Shopping User  Nov 16, 2007 | 1 out of 1 found this NETGEAR WPN824 RangeMax Wireless review helpful

Pros: Good range, supports my xbox live well,

Cons: setup cd sucked

The only problem I have had with it at all is setting it up. It took us about 2 hours. I agree with the guy that said go to the website, it really helped.

By Yahoo! Shopping User  Jul 24, 2007

Netgear Router Review

By Yahoo! Shopping User  Jun 18, 2007 | 1 out of 1 found this NETGEAR WPN824 RangeMax Wireless review helpful

Pros: Stylish,easy setup,durability,and fast speed.

Cons: Wireless range varies through out the day

Buy It.

1.Great durability.
2.Great online tech support,fixed my problem in less than 3 hrs.
3.Fast speeds(108mbps)-108 Megabits-Per-Second.

By Yahoo! Shopping User  Mar 26, 2007

Good Router

By Yahoo! Shopping User  Mar 5, 2007

Pros: Easy to Set Up, Reliable

Cons: Not Wireless-N

Excellent router, I've had it for almost a year and it has been super reliable. Wouldn't recommend it though as Netgear releases it's Wireless-N products.

By Yahoo! Shopping User  Feb 21, 2007

NETGEAR WPN824 v2

By Yahoo! Shopping User  Dec 22, 2006

Pros: The router functions and lan works great.

Cons: Wireless is hit and miss.

In working for a major retailer, with a computer services department I find my self setting up a number of these wireless routers.

These seem to be desirable among customers who have large homes and don't want to spend an arm and a leg to get sufficient wireless signal through out there homes. Every time i arrive at a customers home and see one of these jems i cringe cause i know it will take hours to get it to work and at times it never will properly.

Netgear seem to have several firmware revisions to this device and you almost allways have to download the newest release to get the wireless working. Thus far after installing 15 or so of these i have had one work out of the box. The rest have had flakey reception and consistent signal dropping.

The best i can gather is the MIMO 7 antenna portion has some quirks. The device will alternate which antennas that are used based on the clients attached to it. When it switches the antennas you can see the effect on a laptop with inconsistent bandwidth thate modulates from 2mbps to 108 depending on the range and never holds a consistent signal. Network devices have a tendency to suffer from packet loss and don't always maintain a consistent connections which is less than desirable.

Now if you use this wireless router with complementing Netgear products it is a wonderful device, how ever that does not fit most customer's requirements because we are using a number of wireless adaptors from a large quantity of vendors.

netgear wireless router

By Yahoo! Shopping User  Nov 24, 2006 | 2 out of 2 found this NETGEAR WPN824 RangeMax Wireless review helpful

Pros: Works great

Cons: none

Works straight from box. Am not an expert but I followed theinstructions and it works.

It reaches parts of the house that my other router did not.

Am very pleased with it

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By Yahoo! Shopping User  Sep 17, 2006

A very decent Router!!

By Yahoo! Shopping User  Sep 16, 2006 | 2 out of 2 found this NETGEAR WPN824 RangeMax Wireless review helpful

Pros: MIMO technology

Cons: Freaking Lights!!!

Well, Its say its gives nice range, but i didn't test it with the RangeMax Adapter. But it gives a very reliable and steady signal. Doesn't drop signal when you are far away. I had linksys, which i got from verizon for free. It was pretty shitty. It didn't work so well, i had to keep resesting it, bc it wouldn't function properly. I didn't invest $130 dollars on this router, but i tried it out. Its been a very reliable unit. I am very skeptical when it comes to electronics. i have to say this is worth the price,I would recommend it.

Netgear WPN824

By Yahoo! Shopping User  Aug 22, 2006 | 2 out of 3 found this NETGEAR WPN824 RangeMax Wireless review helpful

Pros: Many security options

Cons: meant only for consumer use

It has soem good security featuers like WPA2 (TKIP AES.
and IP filtering..you can filter unwated websites and shedule internet loging time.and you can deny unwanted people to access the internet during busy hours..

Looks god it has some birght blue lights and people will atract ..good design..

But when it comes to performance what I can say is **sucks* I have to reset it evrymorning coz it goes idel..sometimes you have to reset the router during working time coz your clients wont connect to the router.
If you have 4-5 PCs or Notebooks this is a good product to implement.

Pros:

Many security options
Excellent range
High throughput

Cons: Limited monitoring Options
Very limited and poor technical support

meant only for consumer use

NETGEAR WPN824 RangeMax Wireless

By Yahoo! Shopping User  Aug 22, 2006 | 1 out of 2 found this NETGEAR WPN824 RangeMax Wireless review helpful

Pros: Efficent Routing and good perfprmance

Cons: Too many blinking LED on top

This is the actually a pre 802.11n router. I actually got it off the shelf from the superstore to test it. Pretty good performance. Through put of 12.4MB on all ports including wireless.

Test Setup.
Devices :4 LAN PC and 2 WLAN PC
Data : 2GB movie files
WAN : 6500 kbps

Average through put for all across LAN is 12.4 MB. Tested 8000 TCP connection Unit it hang up. IP Multicasting supported.

By Yahoo! Shopping User  Aug 15, 2006

somebody said....

By Yahoo! Shopping User  Aug 7, 2006

Pros: some

Cons: some

i tried to use this type.. but it seems it didnt work well..

what can i do..
btw
can i advertise this to my upcoming site...

and who will answer me

NETGEAR WPN824 RangeMax Wireless

By Yahoo! Shopping User  Jul 30, 2006 | 1 out of 3 found this NETGEAR WPN824 RangeMax Wireless review helpful

Pros: easy to set up

Cons: long life battery

i bought this last month and it doesn't give me any problems...

it's user friendly and very much helpful

Leave well alone.

By Yahoo! Shopping User  Jul 3, 2006

Pros: Built in DNStoGo

Cons: Very Unreliable

Hi,

I bought one of these RangeMax's after my UsRobotics wireless died after using the wrong Adapter. On a side note, why on earth can't manufactures be bothered to put the Make & Model of the product on the Adpater?.
Anyway, I use my wireless to stream TV via XBox360 and Media Center, and these routers just cannot cope, constant lockups & disconnects.
Also the claim that these give extra range is load of rubbish.
If you only need to browse the internet then maybe this router will be OK. But if your want to stream Media arround the home leave well alone.
In the end I sent this back and got it replaced with a Belkin pre-N, and these are just amazing compared to the Negear, Signal strength and range are much better and they cope with Streaming media without a single hitch.
In fact from inside media center diagnostics the Belkin blasts into the HDTV too, the netgear struggled to even do SDTV.

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By Yahoo! Shopping User  Jun 30, 2006 | 2 out of 2 found this NETGEAR WPN824 RangeMax Wireless review helpful

Pros: Sexy design, MIMO longer range, easy to setup and use.

Cons: Big, the light could be disturb when you sleep, only use long range with only g standard.

I's just bougt it 2 weeks ago after check all the network hardwares. It has all normal standard for normal router, one big diffirent is the MIMO technology. It allows your laptop connect wirlessly for long range, it's about more than 100m far from the router and the signal still very good and the connection stable without drop down or lost. Very good router.

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By Yahoo! Shopping User  May 12, 2006

One of the Best Wireless Routers out there

By Yahoo! Shopping User  May 3, 2006 | 2 out of 2 found this NETGEAR WPN824 RangeMax Wireless review helpful

Pros: Ease of Set-up, Excellent Coverage

Cons: None

I have very little experience with Wireless routers other than helping a family member install a Linksys router with poor results. It frequently had poor signal strenghth even from 10 feet distance from the router. So the router ended up being returned and the more difficult task or wiring ethernet cables from one room to another was accomplished instead.

I have since purchased a laptop with wireless capabilities and was dreading going back to the same problems I had before. Therefore, I wanted to make sure I purchased the best possible router that was on the shelf. Hence, after a little research I took a chance on the 824 from the Netgear and haven't been disappointed.

The setup was easy and took about 15 minutes. All it asked was to have my DSL connection up and running during the install and it did the rest. I can excellent signal strength from downstairs or any other room in my house and haven't had a dropped connection yet after 6 months of use. I can't be any happier.

My only recommendation, don't forget the password upon inital set-up because I did and now have the unfortunate task to reinstall the router the next time I need to change settings on it. But in the mean, if it aint broke, don't fix it.

By Yahoo! Shopping User  Mar 28, 2006

Great product - Strong Recommend

By Yahoo! Shopping User  Jul 22, 2005 | 10 out of 11 found this NETGEAR WPN824 RangeMax Wireless review helpful

Pros: Easy setup, very good range

Cons: None

A couple months ago I unfortunately found myself on the market for a new wireless router, as my existing wireless router ethernet ports were malfunctioning. I selected the RangeMax from NetGear and have been blown away by the product. Not only was the setup wizard easy to go through (I'm not a techie) but the product itself has surpassed my expectations. I'm getting much less performance degradation through the many walls in my house. (2 story) The range of my RangeMax eclipses the range of my old wireless router. I am free to roam to any corner of my house!!!