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(193 customer reviews) 302 of 310 people found the following review helpful
Fast router, but not with the speeds I expected,
March 28, 2011 M. Eaton (Southern California) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Netgear WNDR4000 N750 Dual Band Gigabit Wireless Router (Personal Computers)
I bought this router due to being a tech junkie and the desire to have a router that can transfer files to my home server, via my laptop, in blazing fast speed. The Netgear WNDR4000 is part of the first bunch WiFi routers to support 3 spatial (data) streams (max 450 Mbps of bandwidth) on the 5 GHz band. I would say the router provides a solid connection (no drop outs.... yet.. my old WRT610N from Linksys had this problem), slightly higher throughput in file transfers then my Netgear WNDR3700 on the 5GHz band, easy to setup, and great parental control feature.
The down side of the router is that the 2.4 GHz band only has 2 spatial data streams for a max data link speed of 300 Mbps. Comparing the throughput on the 5GHz band between the WNDR3700 and WNDR4000 only showed a 15% gain instead of the expected 50% gain (300 Mbps vs 450 Mbps).
I also have the Cisco E4200, another router with 3 spatial streams on the 5GHz, that I am trying out and I would say it has the...Read more
71 of 73 people found the following review helpful
Works just fine.,
March 29, 2011 Amazon Verified Purchase(What's this?)
This review is from: Netgear WNDR4000 N750 Dual Band Gigabit Wireless Router (Personal Computers)
I pre-ordered and it came yesterday. The router lets you customize just about everything if you want to. WPS is also an option to keep things simple. It offers separate guest SSIDs that are isolated from your normal network on both frequencies. So in total you can have up to 4 SSIDs. I have both 5 GHz and 2.4 GHz N devices but they only have 2 spatial streams. Coping a >900MB file from a 5 GHz client to a 2.4 GHz client averaged 4.72 MB/s effective (raw was up to 6000kbps) through at least two walls and a floor each way. The 2.4 GHz band here is very congested and it has to fight with at least two other networks on every channel. There has been no need to reboot so far and no anomallies (up time can be viewed). If I get around to it I will update the numbers with a 6300 in this laptop instead of the 2 stream only 2.4 GHz Atheros card.
Update 4/21/2011:
With the Intel 6300 this gets 450Mbps on 5GHz. Please be aware that 802.11n has a "good neighbor" policy...Read more
162 of 185 people found the following review helpful
Wireless Router Roller-coaster,
June 10, 2011 R. Taylor "R. Taylor" (Austin, TX USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Netgear WNDR4000 N750 Dual Band Gigabit Wireless Router (Personal Computers)
THREE PART REVIEW: Before you expect that the issue may be user error, please note I brought in IT professionals and consulted with the Manufacturer on more than 6 occasions.
PART ONE: Positive Beginnings
Beginning of June 2011
I will begin by letting you know that I am not an IT person, and I don't speak geek, no offense to those of you that do know that language, but there is one thing I do know about routers is that the N750 is a fantastic one!
This is MY FIRST ROUTER INSTALL, my husband handled the 2 other wireless routers we've owned, but he wasn't available at the time I wanted to plug 'er in, so I took over!
We purchased this to replace our NETGEAR RangeMax NEXT Wireless Router WNR834B, which worked wonderfully until we had too many items trying to share the same connection at once, not to mention the interference I mention below. Hence the upgrade.
The Quick setup Guide does say you need a male to male USB, rather...Read more
