| NETGEAR RangeMax Next Wireless Router WNR834M - Wireless router + 4-port switch - EN, Fast EN, 802.11b, 802.11g, 802.11n (draft) |
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Model: Wireless Router WNR834M
Brand: Netgear
Manufacturer: Netgear
Average Rating: 
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Total Reviews: 15
Form factor: External
Hardware platform: PC
Data link protocol: Ethernet, Fast Ethernet, IEEE 802.11n (draft), IEEE 802.11b, IEEE 802.11g
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| RangeMax NEXT extends the possibilities of your wireless home network by providing a Steady-Stream of up to 270 Mbps, and is compliant with draft 802.11n. This next generation wireless standard utilizes advanced MIMO (Multi-In, Multi-Out) technology, which delivers incredible speed and range, and for the first time provides wireless interoperability at the highest speeds with other products with InteNsi-fi.A RangeMax NEXT wireless network creates and maintains stable connections and enough bandwidth to surf the Internet, download MP3s, make Internet phone calls, share files, play network games, and stream high-definition videos, simultaneously at any distance or location in the home or office. Because RangeMax NEXT is compatible with all legacy b and g wireless products, you are sure to be connected.Preset internal antennas and draft 11n-True-Test high-performance testing and tuning, provides maximum performance and high-quality streaming every time. Touchless WiFi Security makes creating the highest level of network security easy and includes WEP, WPA-PSK, or WPA2-PSK. |
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| User Reviews (15 total): |
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Buy D-Link instead, June 8, 2008
By user (GA)
This was a bad experience for me. Wasted many hours actually thinking this piece of junk would work. I need a stable connection for work. Decided to cut my loses and buy D-Link. Problem solved. Placed the router and the Netgear PC USB adapter that also did not work in the trash because I would not wish this on anyone.Will more than likely never consider another Netgear product due to the poor quality.
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It didn't last long, January 13, 2008
By user (Seattle, WA)
Had this router for 6 months and it worked great until it started dying a slow death of slow and dropped connections. To make thinks worse it didn't just not work, it would work and then not work, the most agonizing of all problems.
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atrocious product that causes more grief than you can imagine, December 27, 2007
By user (Austin, Texas United States)
maybe I have a bad router, but based on what others have written, it doesn't seem like I am alone in hating this wireless router. save yourself the frustration and buy another product. configuration of the router was not difficult, though the reliability of the connection is radically suspect. the router is constantly losing connection and requiring a reboot. if you like to restart your wireless router every 15-30 minutes this is a great product.
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Save yourself aggrivation and Keep looking, November 3, 2007
By user
This has to be absolutely the worst experience I've had with any piece of technology. You have to restart it every time you make a change and it kept dropping my wireless devices in times of heavy usage.
I bought a D-Link instead. I recommend you do the same.
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Terrible firmware, September 19, 2007
By user (San Jose, CA)
I've had this thing about 6 months now and it has been nothing but trouble. The MIMO radio is acceptible, but almost useless now that the thing is crashing every 5 minutes. I used to have a static IP connection that would only require me to reset about once a week (no reboot button or off switch, only a factory reset button), but since moving to a dynamic ppoe login, I'm lucky if I get 15 minutes before having to unplug and plug it back in. I'm switching back to my linksys 10mb 802.11b router until I can find something new.
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The Best!, September 16, 2007
By user (Indianapolis, IN. USA.)
I've had this product for 6 months now and its has NEVER gone down or had any loss of strength even when I go outside on the deck.
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So Far So Good, July 27, 2007
By user (Chicago IL)
This is only my second router I have owned and hopefully the last. The ease of installation was superb. No need to download any installation instructions or drivers manually. Just plugged it in and the instructions (very simple) instantly popped up on the screen. Took only a couple minutes and we were wireless. Even updated the firmware with ease. Thanks Netgear! And by the way, It's a refurb that was $55-shipped!
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superb Fast !!!!, June 22, 2007
By user
superb Fast !!!!deliver a steady stream conection, for all PCs with fast connection an multiple users...
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I just Love It, June 19, 2007
By user (crown point , IN)
I have been searching for agood router for over 2 months, I had very different reviews on many routers,some say linksys is better, some say netgear is better ,some say d- link is better.
so what I did , I bought all of them and I install them one by one in my house. they were all easy to install , easy to navigate but for the best speed and the best range . I used the same computers with all of them.the linksys and the d -link didn't have agood rang up stairs for my laptop or through out the whole house. but this route wnr83m is the winner . so I choose it and I returned the rest.
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Simply does not work, June 5, 2007
By user (California, USA)
This router is extremely buggy. It's 'factory default' configuration is a vapid 'autoconfiguration' mode where you can ping the internet but that redirects all of your browser's requests to itself, where it then attempts to 'learn' your network and configure itself in it's own retarded way. On my extremely common dynamic IP broadband home network (which a Linksys WRT54G router works out of the box on with no configuration) this router decided that I was on a Static IP network (which I am not), then proceeded to auto-screw it's configuration up so badly that it would not even boot up.
It is possible to bypass the autoconfiguration and manually configure the router, however, after a few minutes the NAT logic freezes up for everything except for UDP packets. So you can ping the internet, do DNS lookups, and browse your cable modems status screen, but web requests to the internet are dropped on the floor.
This is really unforgivable. Manufacturing a router is as simple as putting a Linux kernel in a box, and this is not a subtle bug, so I really feel Netgear had to actively try to screw this up. I bought this Netgear router because I have a little blue metal router from Netgear that has worked reliably for several years in colocation, but apparently they are no longer the quality brand I thought. I'll go back to Linksys, of which the WRT54 series is almost a modern classic.
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Overpriced, underforming cr@p, May 1, 2007
By user (Snoqualmie, WA USA)
I purchased this router nearly a year ago to replace a Linksys router that died. I can think of no better word to describe my experience with this device than 'suffering'. It is an absolutely worthless piece of junk. It performs so poorly and is so unreliable that it has caused me to revisit my percepion of Netgear equipment as a whole. It has no diagnostics or logging capability (though it claims to, the 'log' simply tells you when it started up and if you entered bad login credentials).
There is no question that it's dropping packets. Check the statistics? It says everything is great.
Want to upgrade to the latest firmware (yes, you will. The original firmware is, um, [...]). Doing so will require that you erase and recreate the configuration from scratch. Oh, and do be prepared to wait 30 seconds for it to write the config everytime you hit 'apply' -- which will you will need to do multiple times in several screens.
Save yourself time, money and humility. Don't waste any of it on this pathetic excuse for a router.
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Problem loading website, February 16, 2007
By user (Mercer Island, Washington United States)
Since I got this router, I have problem trying to load up some webpages, yet they run just fine when I simply hook up my cable modem to the PC without routing it through this router. There could be something to do with the router's own firewall, but I don't see any options allowing me to control it. Anyone got any ideas?
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Do not buy Netgear WNR834M, January 7, 2007
By user (Palo Alto, CA USA)
Actually, I don't think I will buy Netgear at all. This is the problem: I bought the Netgear WNR834M and a netgear wireless card for my home PC. I also connect with a laptop. It connected just fine ... but every 5 to 30 minutes it just stops connecting (the router). Cycling power on the router brings it back on line for another 5-30 minutes.
This was a brand new product, yes I'm going to go search the web for more recent firmware updates and play with security settings and make that phone call to India support... BUT *YOU* don't have to. Buy D-Link instead. I'm generalizing this beyond my particular product because the same thing happened at work. We got another Netgear router, it intermittently disconnected too. Our solution was to rip it out and stick in D-Link. Life is much better. At home, I will try to salvage my "investment" ... but save yourself the grief.
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Didn't work for me -- I returned it., September 4, 2006
By user
I recently bought this router to replace an older D-Link 802.11b wifi router. I was shopping for one that had gigabit ethernet ports for the wired part of my network, and at least 802.11g with WPA encryption that most modern routers have. In big letters on the box it said "This wireless router has been upgraded with Gigabit ports!". I paid a premium, but I bought it mainly because the gigabit made it stand out from the crowd.
When I got it home and plugged it in, I found it was only giving me 100mb ethernet, so I went to the Netgear website and found these words on this router's support page: "Some sources incorrectly read that this product has gigabit capability. It does not." I guess "some sources" include the the label on the box!.
I also have an Airport Express in my wifi network and I could not it to join the Netgear's wifi network unless I turned off all encryption! I have many years of IT experience, and tried many different settings and troubleshooting methods to no avail.
In the end, I decided to return the Netgear router and I got a D-Link DI-634M instead. No, it doesn't have gigabit ethernet either, but it was $60 cheaper and it works flawlessly with the Airport Express.
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Fails to Perform, September 3, 2006
By user
I am currently using a WNR834M RANGEMAX Next Wireless Router with a WN511T RANGEMAX Next Wireless Notebook Adapter and a WN311T RANGEMAX Next Wireless PCI Adapter. All of the equipment has the latest firmware and software utilities available from Netgear's website. I currently have no other wireless devices connected to my network. I also can only see a couple of networks near my home. They only have at most a 30% signal. So I do not believe I am getting any interference from those networks. I have also turned off anything in my home that gives off a signal.
I am unable to stream music from one wireless device to the other without the song skipping. Also if I attempt to surf the internet while doing this the connection speed varies greatly and if I do a constant ping I fail to get a response about 50% of the time from the router itself. The same symptoms occur if I transfer any data from one wireless device to the other. The box states I should be able to do all of these simultaneously and much more. As far as online gaming is concerned some games will not even connect due to the packet lose that is occurring. If I plug both computers directly into the router without using the wireless everything works fine.
I have 8 years experience in the IT field and have tried several different troubleshooting steps to resolve the issue. I have tried adjusting security settings, channels, radio frequency, MTU size, wireless optimization settings, and more. Nothing has solved the issue. As a last resort I decided to call Netgears 24/7 support line to see if someone could offer up another idea. After repeating several of the steps already mentioned the technician in India admitted she could not help me any further and a higher level technician would be calling me in the next 24 to 48 hours to assist me in resolving the issue. I have not had a call back yet.
When I hook up my old WRT54g Linksys 802.11b/g router to my WMP11 Wireless-B PCI adapter and my WPC54G Wireless-G Notebook adapter I have a more stable local area network.
I will be returning all 3 of these Netgear products.
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