IBOOD for 17/10/11 - Netgear WNDR3700 (v2) €69.99 + €12.50 P&P

vibe666

actually a pretty well specced router, although I think it might be end of life due to the price drop.

http://bit.ly/ncK9nq

Dual Band Wireless:
IEEE 802.11 b / g / n at 2.4 GHz
IEEE 802.11 a / s at 5.0 GHz
Powerful 680 MHz MIPS 32-bit processor
16 MB flash and 64 MB of RAM
5 Gigabit Ethernet 10/100/1000 ports (1x WAN, 4x LAN) with auto-sensing technology
Advanced Quality of Service (QoS)
Supports Wireless Multimedia (WMM) based QoS
Wireless security: WPA/WPA2-PSK and WEB
Double firewall (SPI and NAT)
Denial of service (DoS) attack prevention
IPv6 Certified
DLNA support
WPS support (Push'N'Connect)
Live Parental Control with flexibility to adjust filters
High-speed USB port
ReadyShare ™ - Plug a USB media into the USB port to share it over the network (supported are FAT16/32, NTFS R / W, Ext 2 R / W, Ext 3 R / W)
Multiple SSID guestnetworks
Broadband data usage meter reports on your data usage and data limit
WiFi On / Off button

even so, it's a dual band, dual radio router with gigabit ethernet ports and a respectable amount of RAM and decent CPU.

it's €89 on komplett, but €177 on elara, so i suspect it's going to be replaced with something else and elara just didn't drop their prices on the old stock yet.

still, it's a good indication of the value of the router and to add to the value, you can re-flash it with DD-WRT should the mood take you. http://bit.ly/oCKsy1

more info on the router itself here: http://www.netgear.com/home/products/wirelessrouters/high-performance/WNDR3700.aspx

johnny_adidas

damn it, missed this one, just what i was after too. will just have to get one from amazon i guess. any idea though why the image is the n600 and description is the 3700?

vibe666

johnny_adidas wrote: »

damn it, missed this one, just what i was after too. will just have to get one from amazon i guess. any idea though why the image is the n600 and description is the 3700?

it is a little confusing, but the model number for the N600 router is actually 'WNDR3700' so you may see it referred to as either name.

you can see it listed on neatgear's website here: http://www.netgear.com/home/products/wirelessrouters/high-performance/WNDR3700.aspx

Cuddlesworth

Never buy netgear. Worst rep in the market.

n97 mini

I've that router, with OpenWRT on it. Fantastic, dual radio. I have a third wifi adapter on the USB port for WAN load balancing and failover.

Runs a VPN server too, as well as the usual stuff.. proper firewall, dyndns, scheduling, traffic graphing etc., and through the ipkg system there are loads of additional software packages to install.

The 680MHz CPU in the router is well able to handle it all.

j4vier

have this one as well

got it from komplett for about 90e a few months back
one of the best routers i have ever had
has even a usb function to add a hard drive to share on the network, the wireless has been flowless with everything i had connected to it

johnny_adidas

Cuddlesworth wrote: »

Never buy netgear. Worst rep in the market.

i would counter that with the belkin piece of crap i have at home

dolallyoh

johnny_adidas wrote: »

i would counter that with the belkin piece of crap i have at home

Both are terrible but the belkin - eugh.


Apprently the cpu speeds in many of the netgear and buffalos are fairly poor.

johnny_adidas

I would appreciate if anyone has suggestions of similar products in this price range which would be highly reliable as it can be hard to find any without poor reviews of some kind or other

Redisle

johnny_adidas wrote: »

I would appreciate if anyone has suggestions of similar products in this price range which would be highly reliable as it can be hard to find any without poor reviews of some kind or other

Thinking of buying one of these myself. It's not dual band but it gets fantastic reviews and supports dd-wrt. Not as high spec as the one in the OP but also significantly cheaper.

Captain Darling

Redisle wrote: »

Thinking of buying one of these myself. It's not dual band but it gets fantastic reviews and supports dd-wrt. Not as high spec as the one in the OP but also significantly cheaper.

Is there any benefit in replacing the net-topia one that Eircom sends out with something like this?

Redisle

Captain Darling wrote: »

Is there any benefit in replacing the net-topia one that Eircom sends out with something like this?

Firstly the eircom one has a built in dsl modem while the ones being discussed here are routers only. (You need a sepearte modem if using dsl).

There are plenty of reasons to upgrade but that really depends on what you do with your network. If all you are doing is using the internet and not sharing files across the network etc then the netopia is probably fine.

However if you are sharing files, streaming HD video, that kind of thing then you would really benefit from Gigabit ethernet and 802.11n wireless, bearing in mind that you would also need gig ethernet and/or 802.11n support on the client side. The eircom modem would only support 10/100Mbps Ethernet and 802.11g wireless.

Note that the one I linked to above and also the one discussed in the OP has a usb port which can be used to easily share a USB hard disk across the network, among other things.

paddyp

Captain Darling wrote: »

Is there any benefit in replacing the net-topia one that Eircom sends out with something like this?

If you just access the internet over wifi then probably no, if you stream or move files over wifi then yes. This has usb which means you can plug your backup drive & possibly printer in and have it accessible to all computers over the network.

[edit]Redisle beat me to it. Just to add you can still use the netopia router as a modem and something like this as the router.

n97 mini

dolallyoh wrote: »

Apprently the cpu speeds in many of the netgear and buffalos are fairly poor.

Did you read the spec? 680MHz is hardly fairly poor is it?

Cuddlesworth

n97 mini wrote: »

Did you read the spec? 680MHz is hardly fairly poor is it?

680MHz in context of what? I can hand you a 400,000MHz proc in a wireless router it will still be pretty useless without good drivers, a good operating system and a good design. Something both Netgear and Belkin lack in droves.

vibe666

Cuddlesworth wrote: »

680MHz in context of what? I can hand you a 400,000MHz proc in a wireless router it will still be pretty useless without good drivers, a good operating system and a good design. Something both Netgear and Belkin lack in droves.

right up to the point where you re-flash it with DD-WRT and all those issues cease to exist.

n97 mini

Or better again, OpenWRT.

Cuddlesworth wrote: »

680MHz in context of what?

Other routers, of course.

johnny_adidas

Redisle wrote: »

Thinking of buying one of these myself. It's not dual band but it gets fantastic reviews and supports dd-wrt. Not as high spec as the one in the OP but also significantly cheaper.

Received mine during the week and set it up last night. working perfectly so far as router and plenty of options in the standard firmware so dont think ill bother with dd-wrt. Thanks again
tried my portable usb drive and didnt work however, actually froze up the router. will try again with a powered external drive during the week.