Cheap Netgear WNR2000 Wireless-N Router for Sale
Thursday, 18. August 2011
Bestseller Netgear WNR2000 Wireless-N Router – Review
- Full duplex: N
- Wireless LAN (WLAN) connection: Y
- Bandwidth: 2.4 GHz
- ADSL connection: N
- Maximum data transfer rate: 0 Gbit/s
Netgear WNR2000 Wireless-N RouterWith the Netgear WNB2100-100 Wireless-N Router your can: Simultaneously surf, stream HD video, play on-line games and make VoIP calls ? Wireless-N router with matching USB adaptor delivers superior performance, range ? Push ‘N’ Connect securely connects your computer at the touch of a button. Features:Works with older Wireless-G devices and new Wireless-N devices Push ‘N’ Connect securely connects at the touch of a button Use with a RangeMax Wireless-N Adaptors
List Price: £20.00
Steven Thurston Says:
Very Good router especially for getting various devices working…,
I have just bought one of these routers 3 days ago – so admittedly I cannot comment about their longevity.
However I thought that I should write a review as at the time there were only 4 reviews on Amazon about this product – all not very happy with the router & this nearly put me off buying it. However I took a chance thinking that I could return it & I am glad I did! Hence I thought I should even the “review scales” a little…
First off – obviously sorry to hear that it didn’t work for others that well but for me it was very useful. I had bought it specifically to get the UPnP feature as I thought that this would help me to get 2 XBOXes with seperate XBOX Live accounts to both have fully OPEN NAT connections. Without this my two boys could not play with their mates online at the same time very well.
Anyway the installation went smoothly – takes a little while but if you follow it to the letter then anyone should be able to do it. Next I connected in a couple of laptops (running Vista) both worked straight away. I also had a desktop with an ethernet connection (XP this time) & that worked no problems as well. Next the two XBOXes – they both connected with a dynamic IP on my LAN & because the UPnP is enabled on the router by default they both immediately worked! This really pleased me & the 2 boys. Finally I have connected in a Playstation 3 with a wireless connection & my work PC can connect to my office using VPN – again no problems.
All of the connections are running WPA2 security (which apparently is very secure – or so they say) & everything is going very well. The router admin page itself is very good – lots of features admittedly – but most of which you do not need to worry about unless you need them for something – as I said all of the above devices worked with no changes to the router configuration. Also for each feature there is the right third of the page that has handy instructions/help – again very useful.
By the way I am a Virgin Media customer – so works well with that ISP.
So for me it really sorted out all my issues – if you look on the web getting 2 XBOXes to work through one router can be a big problem so this is really good.
Hopefully it now works as good as it has for the last 3 days for years to come!
Well I hope that helps some folk…
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|Mr. Craig R. Simmons Says:
Well chuffed,
I bought this router having moved house in July 2009 and needed to switch from ADSL to cable. It’s worked perfectly since installation. I’m sure other folk who have critisised it in other reviews on this site have been totally frank and honest, and I guess it’s all down to personal experience, but mine has been very positive minus one very small niggle…
The good ….
All the following devices, wired (W), wireless (WL), perform faultlessly …
IBM ThinkCentre S50 (W)
IBM Lenovo T61 (W and WL)
Netgear ReadyNAS Duo (W)
PS3 (WL)
X-BOX 360 (WL)
IBM Thinkpad T40 (WL)
Squeezebox (WL)
My only slight quibble, and certainly the routers ADSL predecessor didn’t do this, is that whenever I tweak a setting in the Advanced Wireless Settings, Wirelss Access List options, where you can enable device access by MAC address, the firmware insists on disconnecting and reconnecting. This brings down all devices for a few seconds. The reason I’m in here fairly frequently, is to bump my lazy teenagers off their X-BOX and PS3 and the simplest way when I’m working downstairs and they are upstairs is to slightly change their MAC addresses by one character, and apply the changes, as such, hey presto, they are off! Well from a networked games perspective at least! It would of course be nice to see this issue fixed, or even better, a radio button next to each device to simply enable/disable – and even better still, an option to enable/disable devices via their MAC address at certain times of the day
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|M. Gledhill "Half Swiss" Says:
Unsupported, unreliable, terrible customer service,
This router is very easy to setup, the Wi-Fi works fine, good web interface, but it just has one problem.
It will not work with VOIP.
I can connect my VOIP box to one of the 4 network ports, I can make phonecalls, but after 15 minutes, the calls are always cut off.
Netgear has “censored” me from posting an article on their forum, complaining about this issue, but I have posted the full text of their email support here (on page 3):
http://wnr2000.com/
As you’ll read, their Technical Support sometimes recommends upgrading to the latest firmware, or downgrading to a firmware version from September 2009.. then downgrading to an unspecified version at other times.
It’s a mess, and none of their automated suggestions could fix my issue.
In the end, I gave up on this router, bought a bottom-of-the-line “Linksys WRT160N” router instead, and it worked with VOIP straightaway.
Avoid the Netgear WNR2000 router.
It’s unsupported, unreliable, and comes with 2-Years of dreadful Netgear technical support.
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