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(209 customer reviews) 53 of 55 people found the following review helpful
good router, with unique options in firmware,
June 11, 2007 Picky Consumer - See all my reviews
This review is from: TRENDnet 54 Mbps Wireless G Broadband Router TEW-432BRP (Blue) (Personal Computers)
Upgrading finally from my B router. Probably the last one in the neighborhood to do so.
There are three versions of the TEW-432BRP (the outer casings look slightly different). They're roughly labelled A, B, and C. I wound up with the C one. Its the best G router i've ever seen, for a few reasons:
1. "Easy CD" actually worked and led me through a wizard that had me running in under 5 minutes. It was even intelligent enough to figure out that my cable company's router needed a reset.
2. When you go into the firmware, there are some interesting and unusual settings you can tweak. It has the usual things like 'dont broadcast ssid' and all the rest of it. But it also had unusual settings that I'd never seen before, like the ability to set the output of its signal at "full power" or "half power" or "quarter" or "eigth" or "minimum". Seemed like an interesting option; I usually sit 10 feet from it, maybe I can reduce the microwaves bombarding my brain? I...Read more
24 of 25 people found the following review helpful
Trendnet TEW-432BRP wireless router,
January 29, 2006 Vishwa Ramachandran "vishwa" (Nashville, TN) - See all my reviews
This review is from: TRENDnet 54 Mbps Wireless G Broadband Router TEW-432BRP (Blue) (Personal Computers)
The router works fine, but I wish they had specifically told us that the CD that comes along with contains "only" the installation manual and no s/w. Since I had already installed these kinds of wireless router before, I had no problems, but I am pretty sure that a newbie would struggle with it. They must say that one has to open a web browser and point it to the address http://192.168.1.1 and use "admin" as the default user name and passwd to get into the system admin tool s/w.
35 of 39 people found the following review helpful
Weak,
September 15, 2006 zynnel (MD, United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: TRENDnet 54 Mbps Wireless G Broadband Router TEW-432BRP (Blue) (Personal Computers)
I researched what is available on the market, and this router had all the features I wanted - MAC filtering, WPA password protection, 54 Mbps, can be used as a switch, works with PC and Mac. Trendware offered a nice rebate too. All this is great but when there is a wall between my PowerBook and the router, the reception drops a lot, and sometimes completely. It only works well when they are in the same room. This could be due to the fact that there are other wireless networks around which interfere with mine. I don't know. I thought I would give heads up for those looking for a reliable router.
