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My Net N900 HD Dual-Band Router – Our best router for HD entertainment.
Accelerate your entertainment with My Net N900 HD Dual-Band Router. FasTrack Plus delivers smart, real-time prioritization of movies, shows, games and video chat for the best possible entertainment experience. It features combined wireless speeds up to 900 Mbps, superior range, 7 Gigabit ports and 2 USB ports.
FasTrack Plus makes these routers even smarter. It instantly analyzes and prioritizes all network traffic and provides more bandwidth to the services that need it, for a brilliant HD experience.
Up to 450 + 450 Mbps speed with dual 2.4 and 5 GHz bands working simultaneously. With superior range-amplifying technology this router provides the best range for larger multi-floor homes.
It only takes a few quick steps to set up your My Net N900 router; but you still get plenty of flexibility and control for easy customization.
Technology:
Brilliant HD streaming with exclusive FasTrack Plus - This technology doesn't just recognize pre-identified popular services and standard data packets like traditional routers. FasTrack Plus instantly analysis and prioritizes all movies, videos, games and chat sessions delivering faster, smoother, HD streaming with more efficient load times - even when it's all happening at the same time.
Speed that keeps up with you - With Dual-Band speeds up to 450 mbps on both the 2.4 and 5 GHz bands, My Net N900 delivers the ultimate Wi-Fi speeds for your entertainment.*
* Maximum wireless performance rate derived from IEEE standard 802.11 specifications. Actual data throughput and wireless coverage may vary based on wireless network capacity, data throughput rate, range and coverage. Performance depends on factors including distance from the access point, volume of network traffic, building materials and construction, operating system used, configuration of wireless products used, interference and other adverse conditions. As used for transfer rate or interface, Megabits per second (Mbps) = 1 million bits per second, Gigabits per second (Gbps) = 1 billion bits per second.
More bandwidth, less interference - Double your bandwidth with 2.4 and 5 GHz bands working simultaneously to increase throughput. Additionally, the 5 GHz band offers a dedicated network that streams your entertainment without interference.
Superior coverage - Range-amplifying technology reduces interference and additional antennas broaden the wireless signal to provide superior coverage for larger, multi-floor homes. Performance for all your Wi-Fi devices. Stream your movies, shows, games, videos and music to all the laptops, tablets and smartphones anywhere in your home.
7 Gigabit Ethernet ports - With 7 Gigabit Ethernet ports you have plenty of high-speed ports at 10x the speed over Fast Ethernet for your connected devices - HD game boxes, media players, Blu-ray Disc players and more.
2 USB ports - The convenient USB ports make it easy to add external storage, shared printers, scanners and other USB devices to your network.
Software:
More control - My Net Dashboard makes it easy for you to customize, monitor or change your network settings. Access parental controls, Internet security, network name and password, printer and scanner settings, and connected storage drive settings all in one easy view.
Parental controls help protect your family - Use the available parental controls to limit the type of websites your children can view, set access and time limits for their web access and set Internet security to prevent malware and spyware attacks.
Keep your network up and running - The included network diagnostics tool monitors your network for you. It shows how many devices are on your network, continually analyzes common network connectivity issues and helps correct them when they occur so you are back up and running quickly.
Share your network with guests - Set up your own secure wireless hotspot in your home so your guests can wirelessly access your network. Password protection allows you to control access to just wireless web browsing.
Setup
Easy setup - WD's streamlined CD or browser setup is designed to get you up and running in minutes with just a few quick steps. You can set up your router with the included easy setup CD or set it up wirelessly with a browser on any of your connected devices. The intuitive user interface is designed for touch screens, making setting up your router on a smartphone or tablet a snap.
Easily connect and expand your network - With UPnP, My Net N900 makes it easy to discover and auto-configure other devices on your network to provide the ultimate entertainment experience.
Add a My Book Live to create your own personal cloud- Connect WD's My Book Live or My Book Live Duo personal cloud storage device to your My Net HD dual-band router to create your own personal cloud solution within your home network.
Push button setup (WPS) - Easily connect new devices to your wireless network with the push of a button. It's as easy as syncing your mobile phone to your Bluetooth device, and within seconds you can expand your network to include PCs, smartphones, tablets, and other UPnP enabled wireless devices.
Advanced QoS (WMM)- In addition to industry-standard Advanced QoS which prioritizes devices, My Net routers feature exclusive FasTrack Plus technology that delivers smart, real-time prioritization of Internet movies, shows, games and video chat for the smoothest possible HD entertainment streaming.
WPA/WPA2, SPI firewall - We protect your wireless network with WPA/WPA2 and SPI firewall security. Only the data you want gets through, hackers are blocked, and your network is protected.
Antenna amplifiers - Built into the sleek design of the routers are multiple antenna amplifiers that help boost the router's range so that you get excellent coverage and speed in almost any size home.
IPv6-enabled - Future-proof your network with support for the latest Internet Protocol technology.
Ideal for
- Smooth, accelerated streaming of HD movies, shows, games and more
- Instant recognition and auto-prioritization of all your HD entertainment
- Streaming multiple HD streams all at the same time with HD-capable Wi-Fi
- Upgrading to fast dual-band speeds and reducing interference
- Multi-media households with multiple connected devices
- Larger, multi-floor homes with superior range
- Expanding your wired network at 10/100/1000 Gigabit speeds
- Connecting to your home network in just a few quick steps
- Setting parental controls and Internet security to keep your family and network safe
- Providing guest access to your home Wi-Fi network
- Connecting external storage, shared printers or scanners and other USB devices
What's in the box
HD dual-band router, Setup and resource CD, Ethernet cable, Power adapter, Quick Install Guide.
System Requirements
CD setup for PC: Windows 7, Windows Vista, Windows XP (SP3)
Web setup for Mac: Safari 2 or higher and type in //wdrouter or 192.168.1.1
Supported browsers for setup and advanced settings: Internet Explorer 7, Safari 2, Firefox 2, Google Chrome 7 or higher. Type in //wdrouter or 192.168.1.1
Note: Compatibility may vary depending on user's hardware configuration and operating system.
For more great WD products, visit the Western Digital Store at Amazon.com
Features at a glance
- FasTrack Plus technology
- Simultaneous dual-band - 2.4 and 5 GHz
- Range-amplifying technology
- 7 Gigabit Ethernet ports
- 2 USB ports
- My Net software includes parental controls, Internet security, guest access, and network diagnostics
- Advanced QoS (WMM)
- WPA/WPA2, SPI firewall security
- IPv6, WPS, DLNA, UPnP,
Wi-Fi certified
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| My Net N600 | My Net N750 | My Net N900 | My Net N900 Central | |
Fast HD streaming with simple setup. | Seamless HD streaming for watching movies on multiple devices. | Smart HD streaming for accelerated video to all your Wi-Fi devices. | Smart HD streaming for accelerated video plus internal storage for wireless backup. | |
Wi-Fi speed | up to 300 + 300 Mbps | up to 300 + 450 Mbps | up to 450 + 450 Mbps | up to 450 + 450 Mbps |
Dual-band | 2.4 and 5 GHz | 2.4 and 5 GHz | 2.4 and 5 GHz | 2.4 and 5 GHz |
Ethernet ports | 4 Fast Ethernet | 4 Gigabit Ethernet | 7 Gigabit Ethernet | 4 Gigabit Ethernet |
USB ports | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 |
Advanced QoS |  | | | |
Tablet and smartphone friendly | | | | |
IPv6-enabled | | | | |
UPnP/DLNA | | | | |
WPA/WPA2 Security | | | | |
Simultaneous HD streaming | | | | |
Prioritization technology for accelerated HD Streaming | FasTrack | FasTrack | FasTrack Plus | FasTrack Plus |
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Internal Storage | | |||
Wireless backup | |
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Customer Reviews
They are however new to the consumer electronics networking area with their My Net Series of Routers and Storage routers. N900 Dual Band router is just one notch below their Western Digital My Net N900 Central 1 TB HD Dual-Band Storage Router which is their top of the line product which boasts an `all-in-one' storage networking solution for home.
Here is my review of this product. You can read the relevant sections and skip others which you do not care.
(Please bear with me as this is going to be a long review)
Hardware Build Quality: (4˝ of 5)
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As stated before, WD does make nice quality Hardware products. My Net N900 Dual-Band Router is no exception as it surely is a high end consumer router by any spec. The nice textured curvy concave design is a welcome change in the usually boring lab centric looking black or white boxes with bright color Blue LEDs we see from other manufacturers.
While this design does take up some amount of precious desk space due to the `surprising' horizontal design it does allow users to mount it on the wall with some screws for saving desk space. I am sure WD had a reason for this horizontal design. I think it's got to do with the array of amplified antennas inside the router. Placement of these sensitive plane sensitive antennas perhaps forced WD to have a horizontal design?
Also, Thanks to some clever thinking team at WD they have finally got the bright Blue LED's brightness right to exactly what one needs and nothing more. No glaring blue LEDs flashing needlessly at you! It is just bright enough to give that indication at glance and fully functional.
Design, Cooling & Noise: (4˝ of 5)
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Routers are always ON devices in your home. While they consume very little power in terms of watts but they do get `warm' to `hot' depending on the ambient temperature inside the house.
The N900's clever cooling design which has small fins in the edge contour of the box and included automatic temperature controlled cooling fan making this product to be installed in somewhat hostile (Mostly ignored) conditions and still perform as intended. Most of the consumer electronics routers I have seen in the past get warm to near burning hot as the chips inside do generate a lot of heat. Passive cooling or mounting heat-sinks on them can only cool electronics to a degree but nothing can replace a cooling fan for circulating cold air inside the box.
I have never experienced a situation yet with this router wherein the FAN came ON and made noises. Which means for most people this router will be near silent operation under normal working conditions.
Graphical User Interface: (3 of 5)
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The Graphical user Interface for this router is designed for anyone with little or no experience in networking and WD's My Dashboard GUI does a very good job for those non-tech savvy people. The user interface is easy to use and you can setup your router in few minutes even if you know little or no networking skills. However, the use of big fonts and pictures and black background with tons of scrolling fields makes it harder to get to the menus especially in certain areas. I wish they had taken the GUI idea from DD-WRT and provided context sensitive help rather than having to read the manual for what some Greek and Latin options would do.
Having said, The only reason it loses combined points here is because there are some oddities observed during configuration due to associated firmware problem wherein the user password gets reset to factory defaults and also for advanced users certain key options are missing like `RADIO' scheduling and `RADIO' transmit power settings and host of other options that one would expect to fiddle thru' from a high end router like this.
Fully functional otherwise and the GUI is fast and responsive nothing really to be alarmed or concerned for regular users. Most of the above mentioned oddities and features can be easily fixed by a Firmware update. WD monitors their user Forums and albeit does fix them even though they do take some time to complete the feature requests.
Performance: (3˝ of 5)
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Rating the performance is a tough for a multi-function device like this as it has host of technologies in one box. Rating the whole solution bad just for one portion not working is going to be disastrous. So let me tell you that as a router (wired) and Storage networking (Wired) are super fast! - Thanks to the generous 7 Gigabit Switch ports and one Gigabit WAN Port. There is even a USB 3.0 port (Based on the blue color code) on this router! The NTFS attached USB drives and the NAS shares have excellent read and write speeds (Consistent 20+Megabits per second) which I consider very good SAMBA performance.
The only reason it loses serious rating is due to the poor range and transfer speeds when using the 5 GHz band and radio streams. I still fail to understand the limitation with a high end product like this but it is true that 5 GHz technology for 300+Mbps rates and higher transfer rate suffers - as you get far away from router say 8-15 feet away the signal quality drops and the rates suffer.
The same router also has simultaneous 2 GHz radio streams and those perform flawlessly and maintains 144Mbps rate as far as 50 feet away from the router. This tells me there is some basic issue which needs to be fixed by Firmware update. I am sure WD engineers are already working on this limitation.
WD boasts the FastTrack technology for prioritizing traffic within the router based on type of information being sent back and forth. This Quality of Service (QoS) works fine for most types of web traffic especially `HD video' streaming or file transfer etc; But if you have some special applications (Torrents) that needs access to various inbound open TCP ports simultaneously it may conflict with the FastTrack (QoS) service or the firewall in the router. In such cases you may want to open up those ports ranges manually (There is a Menu in the GUI for that) or put that IP or PC in a DMZ and or disable QoS service altogether for better performance for that IP or application.
Sharing: (3 of 5)
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The USB ports allow you to attach USB drives and printers. You can share the NTFS file system present on the attached drives as SMB shares and can be mounted as a drive letter to any PC on the network `wired' as well as `wireless' without using any additional software. You can also attach a USB printer and share that on the network. But For sharing the printer you need WD print share software on every PC that you intend to share the printer with.
EDIT: July 30, 2012
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I had to lower the rating on the sharing aspect of this router as I found issues in SMB shares. The Android devices has issues in parsing the sub-directories from the SMB share. Also there is some weirdness noticed wherein devices like WDTV Live HUB and WDTV Streaming media player has issues in displaying folder contents when you use network shares. Not sure what the deal is but only Windows PC's are able to view the directory contents correctly. Looks that the SMB server has issues. I have notified WD customer support for getting this issue fixed.
Summary: (3 of 5)
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This being marketed purely as a HD Dual Band router on the high-end spectrum of the market and at this price point there are serious competition from other lesser known brands that seems to perform adequately well with higher 300+Mbps transfers. But, The 7 Gigabit ports and super fast SAMBA performance (Wired) makes this router highly desirable. So, being fair and unbiased I decided to give a updated 3 star rating here.
As the new firmware gets released and if I find that they have resolved the 5 GHz band range issues and SMB sharing issues I will revise my rating to full 4 stars!
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See my original/full review after this... I decided to run some numbers using 4 different wireless routers using out-of-the box defaults and the following settings:
2.4 ghz
* wpa/wpa2
* 802.11 g+n
* 20/40 auto
* auto channel
* QOS off
5.8 ghz
* wpa/wpa2
* 802.11n
* 20/40 auto
* auto channel
* QOS off
I used a my workstation as a jperf server and a macbook pro as a jperf client. I ran each test 4 times. The router was about 30ft from the macbook pro with some obstructions. Everything was kept constant for all tests. Each test was 240seconds, 8 streams, with a TCP Window Size of 1024. Here are the four routers and their average performances in Kbits/sec. I used the latest firmware available as of 1/12/2013:
Netgear WNDR3700V2 DD-WRT
41,842 2.4ghz
127,843 5.8ghz
Netgear WNDR4300 Stock
71,711 2.4ghz
too many problems with 5.8ghz to test
TPLink TL-WDR4300 Stock
104,304 2.4ghz
180,629 5.8ghz
WD MyNet N900
112,314 2.4ghz
125,510 5.8ghz
As you can see the WD MyNet N900 has the best 2.4ghz performance of the bunch but the 5.8ghz performance is a letdown. I ended up using the TP-Link N750 Wireless Dual Band Gigabit Router (TL-WDR4300) as my home router. The price is great and although it doesn't have the best GUI the performance was tops.
Original Review
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The WD My Net N900 was probably released a bit too early. Hopefully some firmware updates will take care of the complaints about this Router. This is my own personal interpretation of quality of the WD My Net N900 as a product. If you don't care for or value the things that I'm going to complain about you may absolutely adore this product.
First the Good:
+ Simple GUI
+ Slick and straightforward
+ Genuine attempt to make things simple and hide unecessary (mostly) complexity. For exampe instructions on connecting with and without wps
+ 8 Gigabit ports/switch
+ Great 2.4 Ghz performance
+ Simple traffic prioritization
The Bad:
- Network key shown in plain text
- Password limited to 15 char but no warning. I entered a longer password and it took me forever to figure out why I couldn't login.
- Switching tabs without savings loses changes without prompting
- Missing basic diagnostic/monitoring - e.g. no list of connected clients in extender or router mode. Only dhcp clients listed in router mode when dhcp active. Not even in the log regardless of log level
- Can't choose from connected clients to add to mac filter unless they are dhcp clients
- No DDWRT because of ubicom platform based
- Reports of manufacturing problems that impacted 5 GHz performance (see smallnetbuilder. WD says they'll probably be fixed with a firmware update) - Please see the smallnetbuilder review
- Reports that QoS (FastTrack) doesn't just prioritize some streaming traffic as high but also prioritizes some traffic as low (such as torrents)
So, surfing through the all the 11N reviews, I decided on getting this WD My Net HD Dual-Band N900.
Great choice so far, works like a champ!!
Really like:
Seven Gigabit LAN ports, great since I use wired for 2 computers in the house, and wifi for the laptop, phones and iPad.
Two USB ports for storage and printer sharing - for printer sharing you need to install WD Print Share software on all the computers.
Easy to set-up, maybe one of the easiest
Great dashboard
FasTrack Plus technology - senses large internet downloads and gives them priority.
Really fast, can't measure it, but faster than my friends 11N router that I barrowed last week.
Could Improve:
Range - but I think all routers should have at least 5 miles of range
The printer sharing set-up could be easier to set-up and get working, took awhile but finally got it working.
Summary:
One of the best routers I have ever used. My set-up is 2 wired connections, 2 laptops, 3 smartphones and 1 iPad. Even when all the devices are on and in use, the router handled it with easy and downloading and streaming were fast and continuous.
The reviews are terrible for this router on newegg .. Read more
This product is a boat anchor.
Be very careful.
