Customer Reviews

Netgear N600 Wireless Dual-Band Gigabit Router WNDR3700 - Version 3

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3 star:		(1)
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1 star:		(2)

 

 

Easy to install and get to work with my network. Lots of options and control functions. Also able to prioritize which devices get bandwidth, such as my VOIP so that there's a clear conversation. Latest security protocols (commercial level). Nice little USB storage which is accessible from my Android devices. Makes sharing content between my families devices easy, a little slow, but easy. Help line, both online and on the phone, are fast and clear.

My 4 months old WDNR 3700 N600 router suddenly lost range . One has to be within 6 feet to connect. This problem is well documented on forums. Beware of their scam. The product has " 1 year hardware warranty" BUT in order to claim warranty, you have to pay $99.00 if you are out of the 90 days "service warranty" in order to get customer service to diagnose your problem and claim warranty. This is the cost of the modem itself. In essence, this router is warrantied for 90 days only, any additional warranty will cost you the price of the product itself thus doubling the cost of your router. One often get 90 days warranty on refurnished items NOT new ones. This tells you how little confidence they have in their product. Forget asking for supervisor phone numbers as they all lead to the same person that frustrates you even further. I went through the "i will transfer your call" routine many times only to get told I have to spend more money. I will junk this new router and will NEVER ever look at netgear product again.

I've been using the router for about a month now for web browsing, some bittorrent traffic, netflix streaming, and VPN access into work. No issues so far, the router works as advertised for the above tasks.

In terms of wireless connectivity, I've only been using the 2.4Ghz band at 802.11g speeds. The router unfortunately sits at the front of the house on the second floor as opposed to somewhere central. But even still, I've been able to connect to it from the basement at the other end of the house without any problems. Netflix streaming is working fine over the wireless connection.

The only minor issue that I have with this router is the configuration web page. It takes a relatively long time to apply new settings to the router. In my opinion, it's not a big deal since I've only ever had to set it up once and never worry about it again.

Verdict: well worth the money I spent on it to replace my old WRT54g

The router is working decently 1 month in.
The wireless N range is kind of lacking (around 50 ft in a wooden house, only 3 bar signal) but working. As for the wireless G, it has better signal and no noticeable difference in speed compare to wireless-G.(for our usage anyway lol)

The built in firmware layout is kind of distracting, but included most of the features average users will ever need.
We decided it's not worth the hassle to flash DDWRT onto it.
Also we somehow notice the QoS on the original firmware is actually doing a better job than the previous DD-WRT router, maybe just the hardware.

A must have. I run on broadband and I tell you what, you get bang for your buck on this one. On speedtest I usually get 8mbp, but with wndr3700 I get minimum 17mbp. I love it.

I had to return this item and get a linksys router instead due to poor performance. I bought this unit to replace a cheap 4 year old router to get a more stable signal and better speeds. Although the speed was very good, it was not reliable at all, even less so than my old router.

I cannot recommend this device to anyone. It is hard to use if you are not tech savvy. But if you are you will learn that it suffers from buggy software and poor UI design for the management panel. It does however provide some neat features like tracking the amount of traffic used, guest networks, dual band, wps and a few others. But it fails to do the one job a wireless router really needs to be able to do, provide a strong reliable signal.

Got this router to replace a Linksys WRT54GL running Tomato that had started to get flaky and drop connections. This new router is rock solid no matter how much data I pump through it. I have yet to see it drop a wireless connection or need reseting. That being said the admin interface could use a bit more polish. I would love to see more providers available for dynamic dns.