Product Description

Put the NETGEAR RangeMax Wireless Router to work for you, and that's all you need - leave those range extenders, repeaters, and external antennas at the store. RangeMax adjusts to the interference and physical barriers in your home, and delivers up to 500,000 square feet of coverage - 1000% more than 802.11g. And you don't need to throw away your old wireless devices; RangeMax is 100% compatible with your existing 802.11b/g products and will boost their range and speed by up to 50%.RangeMax is an advanced S...

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1312 in Consumer Electronics
• Brand: NetGear
• Model: WPN824
• Released on: 2005-03-08
• Platform: Windows
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 1.10 pounds

Manufacturer's Description
The WPN824 RangeMax Wireless Router adjusts to interference and the physical barriers in your home to deliver up to 500,000 square feet of coverage. With RangeMax wireless dynamic connectivity there is no need to spend extra money on range extenders, repeaters and external antennas. There is also no need to throw away your older wireless devices; RangeMax is compatible with 802.11b, 802.11g and SuperG products and will boost their range and speed by up to 50%.

RangeMax is an advanced Smart MIMO (Multi-in, Multi-Out*) technology that uses seven internal antennas. The RangeMax WPN824 wireless router constantly surveys your home or office environment for physical barriers and interference: The RangeMax router adapts on the fly, adjusting the wireless signal to compensate for these performance blockers. For example; if you carry your laptop from the living room to the study, RangeMax automatically senses the change and selects from over 100 possible antenna configurations to deliver you the fastest, clearest connection! Everyone will enjoy consistently high-speed connections, everywhere in your house - no dropouts and no wireless dead spots.

NETGEAR ensures that every computer, laptop or console user connected to your wireless network can work and play safely. The WPN824 RangeMax Wireless router comes with a double firewall, WEP (Wired Equivalent Privacy) encryption and WPA-PSK (Wi-Fi Protected Access, Pre-Shared Key) security. These security features add powerful safeguards against unauthorised usage.

NETGEAR's Smart Wizard makes the set-up of the RangeMax wireless router easy and hassle-free. Smart Wizard automatically detects your ISP's network settings, then walks you through each step of the installation process.

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Customer Reviews

Great bit of kit, but needs a high spec adaptor
I have 3 laptops, an HP compaq, a Dell Inspiron and an IBM thinkpad each with their own wireless adaptor. The WPN824 is brilliant with the thinkpad - I can wander to the end of the garden, work in the garage office etc. It is not quite so good with the other 2 machines and the signal is poor at distance.
I have had this wireless router for 4 weeks now and apart from the issues above it hasn't let me down.

Great product, beware if not handy with I.T!!!
After checking around, Netgear seemed to have the best reviews and good customer comments on Amazon.
After recieving the product i started to follow the CD guide supplied for set up. This is helpful but a notes to point out if you have not done this before like me.
1. when setting up the router on the CD guide leave the router unsecured for the time being. This option will appear when assigning router names and other details. You will not be able to link your wireless PC etc to this if you secure it straight away. You can go back and secure this once everything is up and running 2. When you get to the stage where the router is picking up your wireless connection you will need to ensure you go to the admin site for the netgear set up and write down the long key number assigned to your connection. A personel password can be assigned to make life easier but you will need to write the number/letters down as it will ask for it when you first make the wireless connection to your router as a security pass (copy and paset to ensure you get key correct). Once all is complete, go to the admin site which you should have a default passphrase for, and secure the router in settings.
3. Also, if you hide the router name from other users your connection may not work as i found out. 4. Last one, We also found when we restarted the laptop the wireless connection in my networks dissapeared. If you run wireless on a card, remove the card and restart the PC/laptop again, and then replace the card. (pps make sure all other connections are disabled exept the wireless router after initial set up)

Hope any of these details help when setting up.

Good Router if you can get it to work!!!
This was my first wireless router and Amazon did a really good job of delivering the item on time so well done.

However after taking it out of the box and trying to install it using the CD was such a painful experience. It took me 6 hours to get this router running properly! I called Netgear technical support and after 40 minutes on the phone with them, came out blank and their explanation was that the router was faulty as it didn't detect the static IP automatically.

So after a few more tries eventually managed to get it working and so far my internet is working fine, although my laptop is only running at 54mbps not 108mbps.

Good solid wireless router however be warned, installation could get as complicated as putting together a rubix cube.