Netgear 300Mbps router

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I was thinking about getting this Netgear 300Mbps RangeMax NEXT
ADSL2+ Router from overclockers, It the first time that i will ever have a
router and was wondering if it is a good choice?
Has enybody els got this kit and what do thay think of it?

Thanks very much for any help ;)
 
I've not got it but there seems to be a general consensus between reviewers of all draft-n routers that its best to wait for the final versions to come out.

Having said that if you're buying for the first time and don't have any old wireless kit already, then you might not experience any problems.

As for speeds, you'll only get near the top theoretical speed if you're right next to it. As you move further away (to useful distances) the speeds start to become similar to Wireless-G.

Range will probably be improved but I'm not 100% certain about that.

Also I don't know if this is important to you or not but a matching wireless-adapter will set you back £113.39 inc. VAT - that's just lower than the price of the router itself!
 
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bigredshark said:
can i just ask? what's the point? do you have a gig net connection, or even a nas box that can shift that amount of data??
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300 mbps is max throughoutput, so thats up and down. In real life he's only going to get about 100mbps, about the same as a normal 10/100 lan, so there's no reason why it's overkill.
 
Even 300Mbps is only 37.5MB/s. You'd be lucky to get half that in reality.
 
bigredshark said:
can i just ask? what's the point? do you have a gig net connection, or even a nas box that can shift that amount of data??
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No mate its just the amount of range this thing has
 
ash7jar said:
so is this kit worth getting?
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September pcpro have tested the kit.

There was an article recently in The Register on these pre-n routers but for the life of me I can't find it again! Went something along the lines of the previous mimo models (Airgo chips?)had much better range etc.
 
My brother has the Belkin Pre-N router. He has it hidden away inside a desk cupboard upstairs and gets excellent signal downstairs on his laptop.
 
V For Vendetta said:
the most real speed I have seen from any 54g router is 2.1 MegaBYTES

the most I have seen from a MIMO 108Mbps using a MIMO Note book card is 3.0 Megabytes
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Well I'm very sorry for you :(

Seeing as you don't need mimo for 108 it seems pretty pointless from the begining. I have Super G hardware here that I have found to run at 7 using Iperf.
That review shows 8 mb/s reached and seeing as that isn't the same router as this one, it's not very reliable.

Also remember that the throughoutput is both the up and down speeds together ;).
 
What do we think then if I were to make it go though 3 walls and the floorboards eeeekk

Would i need this "Netgear WN311B 300Mbps Rangemax NEXT PCI Adapter (NW-089-NG)"
 
As long as you dont plan to use it for ADSL2+, all the netgear range are useless at it.

I have a netgear DG834 sat here, it managed around 8Mb on ADSL2+, swapped for a speedtouch and am getting 16-17MBs...
 
Pre-n equiptment does have impressive range - I pick loads of local ones up, often with better signal quality than the wireless AP in my house - and I know my direct neightbours don't have wireless!

Know what you mean about pre-ratification kit, but from what I've seen it does look good if range is important to you.

As others have said, you are going to get NOWHERE near the theroetical bandwidth with wireless protocols. Wireless is worse that Ethernet for poor throughput, It's only really the optical protocols that offer anywhere near 100% throughput.

Skidd.
 
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