It's a nice piece of equipment when it works, but I wouldn't take the gamble of buying one again.

The Netgear box worked like a charm out of the box. I took it out, plugged it in, and connected to it. It was easy to configure, with very straightforward instructions, and it worked the first time I tried. Unlike the linksys box, it also includes a very nice print server, so that my wife and I can also share our HP laserjet, and I can print to it while sitting in the living room.

In addition, the netgear's logging facilities and configurability are very nice for more sophisticated users - the box can email you if it detects break-in attempts or DoS attacks, for example. I've been very impressed with this product. I have heard less-than-flattering things about netgear's technical support, but unlike when I was trying to get the linksys one working, I didn't need them.

This unit has adequate range for my wireless needs. I am using the MA101 USB adapter and can go anywhere in my house. I highly recommend this unit.

Used 2 MA401 and 2 Cisco Aironet 350 series with my FM114P. No problems whatsoever. Only problem faced was when I was trying to set a new SSID. Somehow when i tried to apply the new settings it wouldn't work. But after a few attempts at refreshing the page and re-applying the setting, everything was ok. Maybe i'll go download the new firmware. In the meantime, everyone will be enjoying the upgrade over our old 56k modem.

On the side, a friend bought a linksys WAP11 access point at the same time with me. Its almost a day now and he still can't get it to work. Watch out for that problem.

The only reason I gave this product 4 stars instead of 5 is that I haven't gotten the print server to work yet. It dosen't "see" my printer. This may be because I have an older printer.

The only complaint that I have is the exagerated range. I experience significant drop in signal strength about 80 feet away from the router. It may due the fact that there is lot of metal in and around my home, however, I really doubt that anyone could every get any signal past 100yds out of this.

Reasonable price, full featured and reliable.

Netgear's tech support was terrible, so I called Dell (maker of my TrueMobile 1150 PCI wireless card). After 2+ hours on the phone, we had tweaked the card some and increased the range to about 50 feet with no obstructions. That's where I stand now -- OK for my relatively small apartment (although the router is now sitting on top of a kitchen cabinet with clear view of the living and dining rooms)-- but not much good otherwise. Buyer beware.

In general I liked the Linksys line as they had some useful features, including port mapping and UPnP support, which the Netgear products do not have. On the down side, they also have occasional hang ups and don't do stateful-packet-inspection (SPI). SPI is becoming ever more important with the rise of denial-of-service attacks and port scanning bots.

After a particlarly frustrating week with the Linksys router needing to be reset twice as often as usual, I decided to try the Netgear MR314 (note: the same routing hardware is in all the xx31x models). At first, I was a bit disapppointed at the loss of port forwarding and UPnP support but at least the router was solid (no resets) and the wireless range was excellent. After downloading the latest firmware from Netgear's site I took a look at what else they offer and saw the FM114P model, which I hadn't seen at any local stores. The next morning I took back the 314 and bought the 114 at CDW for the SPI firewall features alone. I was pleasantly suprised that I got a whole lot more for the extra [money] it cost me.

The first thing I noticed is that the 114 is faster, and not just a tiny bit faster but a LOT faster. This suprised me as I didn't think that any router added a significant delay to the packet stream but I immediately noticed the pages loading faster. I can't say that there is a bandwidth increase, but latency is definitely reduced (the lag between clicking on a link and the page starting to load). I assume this is due to the 114's 75mhz processor performing its logging, security checks, and routing processes in significantly less time than the other brands/models's unspecified embedded hardware. In my opinion, using a true onboard processor is the way routing hardware should, and will, be headed in the future.

The 114 also improves on the 314 with a detachable antenna, stateful firewall, built-in print server, better service customization (still no UPnP though) and more security options. This unit is practically perfect for connecting and securing a "broadband attached home network"; with wires or without.

It's small, solidly constructed, and comes loaded with an SPI firewall and Print Server. Unlike the MR314's wimpy antenna, the antenna on the FM114P is detachable! As a bonus, it includes Zero Knowledge's Freedom Anti-Virus / Ad-Blocking software, although this may also be included in D-Link's and other brands too.

Installation was surprisingly easy--it auto-detects PPPoE, and DHCP gives you the REAL DNS servers (another improvement over MR314). Since this box has a "real" processor, I'd expect performance to be good--I'd be curious about WEP degradation.

Downsides: 4-switched ports, although it's not much of an issue if you go wireless; lack of rebate offer.

Bottom Line: tiny, solid, loaded, great value. Look for my MR314 on eBay soon...