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Netgear WGR614 Wireless G Router

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• Reviewed by: mackl42

  Updated: 09-22-08

  Overall Rating: 2 Star Review

  Duration of ownership:11 Months

  Strengths: Simple to hookup and use.

  Weaknesses: When I first got the unit, it seemed to work fine but in the last 3 or 4 months, I have had constant dropout of the wireless signal. Anywhere from a few seconds to several hours. I've played a lot of solitaire waiting for a usable signal.

  Overall Evaluation: Would not buy another Model WGR614 or recommend it to anyone. I am looking now for another router.

• Reviewed by: monamondal

  Updated: 04-02-08

  Overall Rating: 5 Star Review

  Duration of ownership:2 Months

  Strengths: Easy setup, Good help page describing the features, cheap

  Weaknesses: Nothing to mention

  Overall Evaluation: A very good product for the newbies since it does not bother much to set uo. Wireless radio is really strong and does not observed any connection drop.

• Reviewed by: mailtosouvik

  Updated: 04-02-08

  Overall Rating: 5 Star Review

  Duration of ownership:3 Months

  Strengths: 1. Supports opensource firmware. 2. Cheap. 3. Stable 4. Faster than the Linksys family router. 5. Easy to set up

  Weaknesses: 1. Does not support WPA2

  Overall Evaluation: Excellent

• Reviewed by: HA2000

  Updated: 01-20-08

  Overall Rating: 1 Star Review

  Duration of ownership:1 Years

  Strengths: None

  Weaknesses: Junk. Drops connection. They never got the right firmware for it. Terrible customer service. Looks good so what?.

  Overall Evaluation: Came with the wrong firmware and I had to send it back for replacement. The postage and insurance was more than what I paid for the junk. So I paid twice. I should have gone the store and bought something else. To make the matter worse they asked for my credit card number that they would charge me if the unit was lost. STAY AWAY FROM THIS PRODUCT UNLESS YOU LOVE TROUBLE SHOOTING ELECTRONIC PARTS

• Reviewed by: jcypht

  Updated: 04-10-07

  Overall Rating: 3 Star Review

  Duration of ownership:2 Months

  Strengths: nice setup wizard

  Weaknesses: not much info for manual setp

  Overall Evaluation: I found this this site on how to configure your netgear router wgr614 http://jon.pinoyspecialist.com/index.php?itemid=2 Netgear Wireless Router Setup Netgear Wireless Router - WGR614/WGT624 (WPN824, WNR834 and the likes are also applicable to this setup)

• Reviewed by: BiffFreely

  Updated: 07-01-11

  Overall Rating: 2 Star Review

  Duration of ownership:3 Years

  Strengths: Worked well until now...

  Weaknesses: 20% packet loss (and download and upload speed only 1/20th speed of Ethernet cable connection.)

  Overall Evaluation: I just spent 5 hours trouble shooting this thing. Reset it numerous times; unplugged it and let it sit for several minutes; disabled its firewall; changed its channel; made sure no other wireless devices were on in the house...all to no avail. I can still access the internet at high speeds using its LAN connection. My laptop is sitting a foot away from it and no other devices are nearby to give interference, so not a signal problem. The thing does feel hot, so maybe it is just breaking down? I dont know, 3 1/2 years isnt short, but it also isnt long enough. Im not going to buy another Netgear product.

• Reviewed by: curly9702

  Updated: 01-31-10

  Overall Rating: 5 Star Review

  Duration of ownership:3 Weeks

  Strengths: Reliable, fast connection speed, cheap

  Weaknesses: none

  Overall Evaluation: This router provides excellent home network solutions. My previous name brand router quit working, so I decided to try Netgear and this is why I purchased this WGR614 v9. It gave me a signal within 5 minutes from when I got it out of the box, and set up was very simple. I have a wireless printer, blackberry, iPhone, iPod touch, Wii, and two wireless laptops connected and signal has not dropped since day 1. I also have a forwarding port 21 (ftp) and no problem. My FTP is up and consistent. I have this router located in my basement and all connected devices are upstairs on the second floor. Connection speeds up there are pretty fast. Unlike others, I do provide my own tech solutions. So I never call help desks. This is why I am focusing this review on this actual device as opposed to the company behind and its support. This is a great purchase for $39, and if it lasts no more than 4 years, you get your money worth (also, by then might be time to upgrade).

• Reviewed by: mrag

  Updated: 07-25-08

  Overall Rating: 5 Star Review

  Duration of ownership:5 Days

  Strengths: Easy set up

  Weaknesses: Non really

  Overall Evaluation: I am writing on a Netgear MR814 router that I bought in 2003. I am not a techie. My initial setup (5 years ago!) did require a call to Netgear with a simple fix and I was up and running. I've had several pc's connected to it since that time using wireless USB adapters includng MS, a Hawking, a Netgear and a TrendNet on both XP and Vista. No problems until last night when my wireless connections were inexplicably lost. Someone in the neighborhood must have gotten a new microwave or whatever.Netgear, 5 years after purchase, spent an hour with first and second level support walking me through a fix. A complimentary (!) call (with zero waiting) since I had not called before and not even a sales pitch on updating. Maybe all routers are the same and maybe an Indian accent is a little harder to follow for those of us suffering with "No Child Left Behind ;-) , but Netgear came through for me and has for five years now.

• Reviewed by: xxzz

  Updated: 03-19-08

  Overall Rating: 5 Star Review

  Duration of ownership:

  Strengths: 1. Easy to setup2. Easy management3. Broadcom based third party softwares can be ported to this board - DD-WRT, Open-WRT forum has already started working on it.4. Cheaper

  Weaknesses: 1. Not found yet

  Overall Evaluation: This is a good one for the newbies since its easy to setup and configure and as well as for the developer since it provides the freedom to choose third party software to port on it. This is good alternative to the Linksys model.

• Reviewed by: SmartGuy10104

  Updated: 02-01-08

  Overall Rating: 1 Star Review

  Duration of ownership:

  Strengths: DHCP Address reservation, WPA encryption, easy interface, firewall

  Weaknesses: Don't use too much load

  Overall Evaluation: I had this for about a year. After I added a computer (server-like) that was always on with Remote Desktop, it apparently couldn't handle the traffic on the v4 version. I upgraded the firmware but the router continuly restarts itself and won't maintain a connection for more than 1 minute for most parts of the day. It's a clean design, but the hardware seems to be lacking.

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