Well let's see where do I start here? For starters this router has a great price. I bought it for $ 7 after rebates. Now one can't beat that can you? Now coming on to what this router is capable of doing. Well after many hours of setting's and reading thru the reviews I was finally able to set it up and now it works great.
I opened the router set it up and ran the Setup Wizard CD that was accompanied with the box and it detected the DCHP connection but didn't detect the internet connection. So I figured that there was a problem with the ISP and so had to call the ISP to give them the router MAC address that they required to add so that it would recognize the internet connection. After that I noticed that running the wizard it detected the internet connection but when I tried to type in and open any websites like [...] or [...] it wouldn't let me open it and instead it would re-route it to some weird [...] and eventually give the blank page(detect connection).
Thus after reading thru all the reviews and support questions, I tried to fix the problem by myself. I tried to Open the browser (Internet Explorer or Netscape) 2. Access the router (usually [...]) 3. Login to the router (User Name = "admin" Password = "password" unless you have changed it) 4. Click on the "WAN Setup" and changed the MTU settings. Usually the Default setting is 1500 but I tried all combinations 1492/1452/1358/1000/900 but all were in vain and I still got the same error. Wired thing is that some pages did open like google news and Netgear's website and my ISP's website and also AIM and MSN messenger. I figured that it was the MTU problem. But even after trying all that it didn't work. So finally it dawned to me to use the Netgear's support. I must say connecting was a pain, but I eventually got one thru and bingo... The guy helped me setup and get it running. By the way I've one home desktop and a wireless notebook that I was trying to get working on.
Now after spending nearly 20 mins' with the support person, I figured it was a DNS related issue. We tried a couple of variations and trying to ping in the command prompt. For that go to the command prompt and type ping [...] and see what comes back. If it's pinging than that's good sign. Then on my wireless notebook I went on to the wireless connections properties and went into the properties of the TCP/IP settings. In the Preferred DNS Server I but 4.2.2.2 and in the Alternate DNS server 4.2.2.1 and there it was... My notebook was up and running and so was my desktop.
So what would I say on buying this product? Well it depends on what kind of a person you are. Meaning, if you have the patience and are willing to sort out the problems you might have (and I say might have, coz everyone ain't has the same sort of problems) so yeah if you are willing to take a chance than why not give it a try? And it's not at all expensive in any case. So I would say this product is not the best but it surely is worth buying for its price. I would give it A+ in terms of price. In terms of ease of use and setting up B but overall after it's setup it works just fine.
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