Netgear N750 Wireless Dual Band Gigabit Router
April 24, 2011 by NewGadget - Filed under General Device
Netgear N750 450 Mbps Wireless Dual Band Gigabit Router WNDR4000
Product Description
The NETGEAR N750 Wireless Dual Band Gigabit Router offers high-performance wireless speeds of up to 450 Mbps needed for demanding applications, such as large file transfers, streaming HD video and multiplayer gaming. Dual band technology avoids interference, ensuring top speeds and the highest range, while Gigabit offers ultra-fast wired connections.
The NETGEAR N750 Wireless Dual Band Gigabit Router delivers two simultaneous WiFi networks on both 2.4 and 5 GHz bands to provide the fastest speed and range available. The router offers wireless speeds of up to 450Mbps for demanding applications like large file transfers, HD video streaming, and multiplayer gaming, and total wireless bandwidth up to 750Mbps.
Features
- Provides up to 450 Mbps wireless speed for streaming HD videos, simultaneous downloads, and online gaming in addition to basic Internet applications.
- Simultaneous dual band ensures top speeds and avoids interference for better wireless connections
- Four Gigabit Ethernet ports deliver ultra-fast wired connections for gaming and video
- Wirelessly share a USB hard drive with Macs and PCs
- Keeps your Internet experience safe using flexible and customizable filter settings
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Customer Reviews
Does what it is designed to do, April 11, 2011 – By Scarlett
First, let me say that I am extremely happy with the Netgear WNDR4000 wireless router. I am a long-time Netgear customer and my last Netgear router was dying, after around 6 years of fairly heavy use.
Next, this router does exactly what it claims to do. It offers 1Gbps wired connections, which I am currently using. It offers up to 450 Mbps wireless connections; I’m currently using 300 Mbps wireless as that is all my wireless card supports. I can get 300 Mbps wireless speed on the 5 GHz network; on the 2.4 GHz network I can get “only” about around 108 Mbps or so. My guess is that there’s way more wireless networks on the 2.4 GHz frequency which is causing interference and thus slower speed.
One nice feature is that you can turn the wireless networks on and off with the touch of a button (holding it down for a few seconds) on the router itself. I do this quite a bit!
I have used the USB port to put a shared network drive in place, and setting that up was very easy. I can access the network drive through various computers as well as through a WDTV Live Plus video player. This actually went much easier than I thought it would go.
Now for the “bad” stuff – not really bad, but definitely things worth mentioning. First, I gave ease-of-setup 4 stars instead of 5 because I used the wizard, and even though everything got set up fine, I was limited in what I could name my network (the SSID). However, after the wizard completed, I simply went into the router settings and re-named my network to what I wanted, and the limits were removed. So I’m not sure why the wizard put extra limits on, but it was an easy one-time workaround…if you know to try it!
The other “bad” stuff is this…there are 3 functionalities that I wish the WNDR4000 had, which will be introduced in the next model router from Netgear called the WNDR3800 (I am told that will available sometime in early June). These functionalities are:
1. built-in print server to support a network USB printer
2. clear-channel technology to seek out the best channel for wireless networking
3. more internal memory
The one advantage that the WNDR4000 has over the upcoming WNDR3800 is that it supports 450 Mbps wireless speed (if your wireless card supports it!); the WNDR3800 supports “only” 300 Mbps.
But again, the WNDR4000 never promised any of these functionalities (that the WNDR3800 promises); for what it claims to do it does it extremely well. I really am very happy with this router.
Replacement for Airport Extreme, April 8, 2011 – By JRH (Minneapolis, MN United States)
I purchased this router to replace an Apple Airport Extreme. The Airport Extreme was reliable and easy to use, so this Netgear had a high bar to clear for me. I decided to replace the Airport Extreme for two major reasons: I wanted QoS for a VOIP phone (the Airport Extreme doesn’t offer any QoS!) and I wanted a 4th Ethernet port. My biggest concern was reliability. I have tried a variety of different routers over time and had serious issues with reliability. I’ve had the Netgear for a few days now, and have used it to move several hundred GB in that time. Thus far, the Netgear has been rock-solid reliable. Setting up QoS has made the VOIP phone much better, and the 4th Ethernet port has allowed me to direct-connect everything to the router now. The user interface for managing and configuring the router is the typical Netgear web-based set of screens. Some people like this, but I think it’s clunky. Using advanced functions, such as QoS, requires a high-degree of technical knowledge and the documentation is severely lacking in this area, too. However, basic functions are easily setup and there is even a wizard for the basics. I will update if reliability becomes a concern, but so far the router hasn’t even given me a moment of concern.
There are a couple features of this router that I hadn’t considered in my purchase decision, but I really like them now that I have them:
1) I really like the stand to put the router in a vertical orientation. This orientation has very good air circulation around the router, so that should help keep it cooler (and more reliable) over time. If vertical orientation is an issue, you can set it up in a horizontal orientation, too.
2) The router can track WAN usage, and has the ability to alert if usage is exceeded. Very handy if you have a cap on your Internet and move a lot of data around. (documentation on this section of the product needs to improve)
Probably the best available, April 5, 2011 – By Cupcake
This is one of the best routers and yet probably the richest one in overall features. The setup is quite easy. I used the web based setup such as defining multiple SSIDs, security protocols, and port forwarding.
Parental control, however, requires separate download from a 3rd party firmware. P/C is probably the best of all, which can be define on user level based on window login. Once done, the router is ready to go without any problems.
The next step was to create separate access points using the old Linksys WRT54G router. The purpose is to preserve the existing connectivities among other devices without making changes to all. It also works like a charm.
The only downside is the signal strength which is not as good as I anticipated. I have a relatively sizable multiple stories house. The 2.4GH signal from this router is one bar less then my old one. However, the speed has been more than satisfactory.
I would strongly recommend this router to anyone.
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