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Question: how many devices does this support? my current router gets fouled up when 4 devices are trying to be used all at once...
Document: It's just not worth it. If price is your main reason for buying this just buy the $21 Cisco router above. Even though it is refurbished, it still gets 4.5 stars, and is less than this router, which even for free isn't worth the price.
I bought this router more than a year ago replace the dead D-Link router, which lasted about 5 yrs. I get much faster upload/download speed with this Netgear RangeMax router in compares to old router. With the router in 2nd floor of my house, my laptop gets 5 bars of wifi connection from the first floor. With my old router, I usually got 3 or 4 bars with same laptop and location. Overall, I'm very happy with this router so far.
Like many others, this router drops DHCP devices left and right. Only a reset will find the devices again and a few minutes later they'll be dropped again.This is my third Netgear router and it's the last Netgear device I'll ever purchase.
We have been trying to get this to work for days now, and still have no wireless. It seems the Mac support is dismal (no wps on Mac), just like the product manual (or lack thereof). I recommend any other router.
While it seemed to work well at first, the router persistently gets into a state where it won't give out DHCP addresses. Any devices I have that use static addresses seem to work fine and it maintains its wireless network and WAN connection, but anything that gets its address via DHCP is off the network.This can happen any time from a few hours to a few days after it's been powered up. Every time this happens I have to reset the router to get it to work again for my DHCP devices.
I bought this from a local retailer in February. I had another Netgear Router that had been recommended by a friend that worked flawlessly for 5 years, and then started to not work so great. I figured it was just time to replace it - it gets used hard, and Netgear was no longer supporting the old router I had.I was told this was a comparable model to the one I was replacing. Set-up was easy and I was online quickly, but the good times were short lived.
Live chat was not accepting calls. In the knowledge base I put in the serial number, and it said to insert a CD, but there was no CD with the router.I called Netgear's telephone support, waited on hold for 20 minutes, then it said to leave a message, and hung up.I never got as far as trying to make it find the wireless computer.
I'm very experienced with home network configuration, but I was unable to configure this router as a wireless access point (bridge) despite multiple hours trying. If you are OK running NAT-over-NAT then this router will do what you want, but if you already have DHCP/NAT on your network and you just want an access point (bridge) then I suggest looking elsewhere. The Netgear support site has precise instructions for how to do this that simply don't work.
I was unable to connect the WNR1000 to my modom after trying to resolve the problem by talking for about 6 hours to the tech support in the Philipines who were not much help and kept telling me to repeat the same steps without success. They also seemed more interested in selling me various service contracts. I even exchanged the modom at their request to no avail. Obviously the router was defective. Also, I discovered that the router did not come with a CD to assist in the installation.
If you want to keep it simple you can just leave the default setting which will require all devices trying to connect to have to physically push the Push n connect button on the router, or you can configure your encryption settings if you are comfortable doing that without a manual. I specify without a manual because this unit did not come with a user manual or easy connect card or anything like that. If you are not familiar with setting up a basic home network you may not want this item.
Answer: It supports 2 devices- a desktop and I pad and is very slow. It seemed faster for about one week and then it's as bad as it was before I purchased this item.