| Netgear WAG302NA WAG302.PROSAFE 11ABG Dual Band Wireless Access Point |
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ProSafe Dual Band Wireless Access Point WAG302
NETGEAR |
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| Description: |
| It's easy to be impressed by NETGEAR's business-class WAG302. The ProSafe Dual Band Wireless Access Point has built-in security and manageability features that make it ideal for any organization or institution facing increasing mobile computing needs. The WAG302 ProSafe Dual Band Wireless Access Point supports both 5 GHz and 2.4 GHz 54 Mbps radio transmission with up to 108 Mbps in both 802.11g and 802.11a in turbo mode to support up to 128 simultaneous wireless clients and client types within the same coverage area. And with AutoCell cognitive radio software, the WAG302 offers optimum WLAN performance in high density, high interference deployments. To protect sensitive communications and data on the wireless LAN, the WAG302 Access Point offers the most advanced and comprehensive set of authentication and encryption security capabilities on the market today. Web-based network management tools make configuration and remote management of the network painless, while SNMP and ProSafe Network Management System NMS100 integrate the wireless LAN with your wired infrastructure. Wi-Fi certification ensures interoperability with Wi-Fi-certified products from other vendors. |
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| User Reviews (6 total): |
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YOU'LL BE SORRY! No better than a $50 ap, June 13, 2007
By Net Admin (San Francisco)
I bought three of these and have been struggling with them for 6 weeks. One day it all works great, the next there are many dropped connections ot you can authenticate with only one device at a time: I'm using all static IP's with WPA/PSK TKIP. Even when authenticated and connected with good signal cannot reach the LAN, cannot ping anything.
The tech support is dysfunctional: on hold repeatedly, never getting a resolution. One "escalated" case took 4 weeks to get an answer and the answer is that the WAG302 is NOT COMPATIBLE WITH WINDOWS CE 5.0 WIRELESS DEVICES! Well, be advised, it works no better with laptops and desktops.
If you have a lot of time on your hands, then try it out. I mean a lot of time.
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Netgear WAG302NA WAG302.PROSAFE 11ABG Dual Band Wireless Access Point, May 14, 2007
By KonTiki (NJ, USA)
Easy to set up, strong unit, handles with ease, communication, and setup with the aid of Tech support was fast courteous and accurate. Excellent unit. Highly recommend it.
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Stay Away, March 4, 2007
By Ed (San Francisco, CA)
The only good thing about this AP is how easy it is to setup. There is nothing "business class" about this AP (that's how it's being advertised and priced).
It will perform acceptably in a "clean" wireless environment. However, it has extremely poor performance even if a single additional AP is present. A "business class" AP that doesn't consider a building with multiple offices/floors, and subsequently the possibility of multiple APs, makes this unsuitable for any serious business use whatsoever. If it was designed to deal with such an environment, it's extremely poor design.
You will obtain the same performance from a $50 home use AP. Don't spend your money on this.
BTW, the "auto-cell" feature is non-existent. It's not even mentioned in the newer version of this AP (v2). So the last comment about firmware upgrade is inaccurate. Even a firmware upgrade of the v1 version of this product will **remove** auto-cell (never worked anyway, so it's really not a loss).
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dont let ng slime u, May 19, 2006
By lanmanager (tampa, Florida)
Previous review: knows *everything* about wireless. Haha.
Thats funny.
Must be NG or affiliate, because this product is utter garbage
advertising WPA-2 and its not in the product or in the recent
and only firmware upgrade that even ng admits is buggy.
We had run into the exact same dhcp problem and
NG support confirmed it a hardware issue in the product.
Simple networks (typically run by peeps that know *everything*)
won't manifest prob. I could go on about probs, but easier to visit
their online support.
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Lost one star due to startup time., May 13, 2006
By Asparian (Austin, TX - Kumamoto, Japan)
We can pretty much ignore the poor review given this device by the other reviewer; with 25 people attaching to this device using DHCP from a FVX538 router I can state the other reviewer has either very old firmware (Initial firmware did not implement AutoCell in a way friendly to DHCP clients) or has not set up the AP properly. The latest firmware can be found on the Netgear website.
Be aware this router *REQUIRES ADVANCED KNOWLEDGE TO SET UP*; if you have trouble setting up $50 AP/Routers then don't bother with this one or the WG302 or WG102. If you do understand *everything* about wireless communications then this is an excellent AP that provides a stable platform.
The one minus point for me is this AP (as with the WG302) is based on a nix core that takes around 2 minutes to properly start up even after TEST light goes out. As it takes only 30 seconds for windows zero config to decide to allocate an address from a local IP range (169.192.x.x) you may be fooled into thinking the DHCP has failed. In other words, wait 2 minutes after the test light goes out before starting or repairing a DHCP client.
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three quarter baked, December 9, 2005
By yoshiro (mark) aoki (usa)
Update:
Latest firmware is now V2.0.11, dated August 24th,2006. Seems stable in my environment, running it for past 4 months. Syslog spew has been reduced, but still a needless flood. Spew includes connect / disconnect messages by the thousands per hour, including authentication messages from powered-off NIC cards(!). This shows poor memory management on the part of the software developers. NTP is hard-coded, as per normal in any incompetent software design and testing effort. The target NTP server, 68.87.64.132, is defunct, so all messages have incorrect time stamps. WPA / WPA2 tests ok and is in full-time use on my network. DHCP problems remain as mentioned in my original review. Overall, quite disgusting and not at all worth the price.
Original December 9th, 2005 review:
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The WAG302 has some things going for it, mostly in that it can handle quite a data transfer load without locking up as is so common among much cheaper wireless access devices. But high capacity can be expected from any AP in this price range.
What is not expected are fundamental problems that even $50 devices have managed to surmount. The WAG-302 has some such problems that I first became aware of when I noticed that some of my wireless devices were obtaining DHCP service from my wired network. On top of that some of my wired devices were getting their DHCP service from the wireless range programmed into the WAG-302. This phenomena was not entirely deterministic, and led to a rather odd distribution of wireless and wired IP addresses.
The WAG 302 also produces an endless syslog spew that spams my syslog server with data repeats numbering hundreds and thousands of useless messages per hour. I could see from the user forums that this particular problem has been on-going for some time with no end in sight...And, from the forums, apparently still no WPA2 or CCMP support for the WAG302.
These incidents introduced me to Netgear's support, a distinctly dysfunctional organization apparently based in India that offered no escalation options (or even replies after initial contact) despite the fact that the device is fully registered and under warranty. RMA requests for returning the product went ignored as well. A complete waste of time.
I happened to have a spare firewall and I used it to isolate this misbehaving beast from the wired network (DMZ). But that's not going to help with the syslog spew or WPA2. I would have expected the Netgear to at least behave as well as the $50 D-Link it replaced.
2-stars.
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