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(5 customer reviews) 3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Meets all my needs,
November 7, 2011 Fred (Granville, OH) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: ZyXEL NBG4615 300Mbps Wireless N Gigabit Router (Personal Computers)
This router replaced an aging D-link 615(?) wireless G router. The router arrived the same day as a house full of guests. It was up and running on DSL with my WPA2 devices in 10 minutes. Another 5 minutes, easily added a guest SSID for the house guests.
One feature that attracted me was the USB ports for printers and external hard drive. Printer and external drive sharing never worked with the D-link. Simply installed the USB share utility on the laptops, plugged the USB hub in to the NBG4615, both HP printers, scanner and the external drive were recognized. So far, no issues with printing. The external drive must be attached and released by each laptop for sharing.
The best feature is the laptops quickly reconnect with the network when coming out of Standby mode. So far its been successful every time. With the D-link, it missed about 60% of the time.
5 of 6 people found the following review helpful
ZyXEL NBG4615: Some nice features... If they work for you.,
September 23, 2011 Joel D. Kennedy "Joel K." (Freeland, WA) - See all my reviews
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I really wanted to rate this router 5 stars, but found that it had some troublesome shortcomings. I'll try to keep this short and to the point...
I was looking for a "Green" router, not for the power savings (come on, how much difference does it actually make?), but for the ability to shut off the wireless and reduce EMFs in my house when not needed. This one has a wireless scheduler as well as a Wireless "On/Off" switch. THE PROBLEM: the radio doesn't actually shut off! I know this because I tested it with an RF meter. There is no change in radio emissions when you switch off the wireless either in the scheduler or with the manual switch. I guess it just disables the SSID broadcast. Now I have to wonder: how can it be saving power if it's still transmitting at full power? I put in an email request to Tech Support and got a response a few days later asking me what meter I used to measure it. Then they said they would look into it. That was about a week ago, and I haven't...Read more
4 of 7 people found the following review helpful
Doesn't work with U-verse TV (no IGMPv3 support) and no telnet management,
September 2, 2011 Constantine Murenin (Russian fellow, resides in Greenville, NC, the USA) - See all my reviews
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I'm a big fan of ZyXEL stuff, from their 56K modems back in the day, to the Prestige line of ADSL modems that I used to have with my Sprint / Embarq a few years ago. So I was pretty excited about this router.
I now live in San Jose, California in a new apartment building, and have AT&T U-verse delivered by fibre that is terminated in my bedroom's walk-in closet. I got this ZyXEL router with the intention of entirely replacing the huge RG that AT&T supplies all of its customers with (2Wire 3800HGV-B), including customers that have a fibre-terminated Fast Ethernet, which is connected to the BROADBAND port on that huge multipurpose RG (instead of the PHONE LINE, as would be the case with xDSL customers). (Note for novice users: This router cannot replace the RG if you have regular AT&T U-verse powered by xDSL, which is what more than 90% of U-verse customers currently have.)
I connected this router to my fibre-box, cloned my RG's MAC address (you won't get a DHCP...Read more
