I would suggest staying away from Netgear. I just
replaced my WR614 today. Even with the latest
firmware, my netgear router was never very stable and
under intense use (i.e. a few hours of Bittorrent w/
Azureus) the netgear would essentially freeze, needed
to power cut off manually to unfreeze it.
I agree. Netgear's plain vanilla Ethernet hubs and switches have always worked great for me (I also like their simple metal cases) but their WR614 wireless access point was always a problem. It had poor coverage, and even at close range we had unacceptably high packet loss rates to our Power books. Firmware upgrades and appeals to customer support didn't help. So it's been sitting unused in a box ever since we got our first Linksys WRT54G.
I really wish Consumer Reports could evaluate stuff like this. They could save a lot of people a lot of time and money.
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