Netgear WGR614 Wireless-G Router by Netgear
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Digital camera reviews of Netgear WGR614 Wireless-G Router
Digital camera Review: A very pleased customer
Summary: 5 Stars
Received my wireless-g router in about a weeks time and was very pleased with the product,being an old man of sixty seven I had my grandson sixteen hookup the router for me.it only took him about fifteen minutes and it works great,looking forward to buying more items from amazon.comDigital camera Review: A waste of time
Summary: 1 Stars
I spent a fair sum of money on this router (it was priced higher then), and have had it for more than 6 months... I would not even wish my greatest enemy to have it. It is bad. I need to switch off and turn on again the main power supply to the router every 5 mins to get it to work.. else it dies. I have written numerous emails to tech support but no response.. one of the pluses when i saw the product was a 3-year guarantee, but that is of little use if no one even replies to your emails.
Using this router is as frustrating as having to reboot your PC every 5 mins. Before submitting this message, Ill have to turn the power off an on, just to ensure that I dont lose it while sending it!
Pluses - The router looks good, is light and compact (i dont know how durable it is, but ok for home, i think). Cant think of any more.
Digital camera Review: A winner
Summary: 5 Stars
After wrestling with a Linksys BEFWS114 for the past 2 years, finally decided to junk it and get a decent wireless router(wireless on the linksys crapped out on me after a tech-support recommended "upgrade")Setting up the WG614 was a breeze. So far have not used the wireless portion of it, so cannot comment. But have been impressed so far (including ability to save off config changes like LAN IP, admin/passwd etc, so that if these get trashed during a firmware upgrade, they can be retrieved easily)
Looks cool too..
All in all Netgear has a winner!
Digital camera Review: AVOID THIS PIECE OF CRAP
Summary: 1 Stars
I give this product a big fat zero, but the minimum rating is 1 star.
I'm not a network expert, but I'm tech savvy enough. I've used Netgear hubs and switches in the past when they were blue boxes, and those have always been reliable, but since I bought the WGR614v5, I will NEVER trust Netgear again. If you value your hard earned money, then buy a more reliable brand.
My WGR614v5 only functioned "correctly" for one thing, which is vanilla broadband routing. It did not port forward correctly nor some of the other advertised higher functionalities. Also, it would not close ports consistently; I play online games, and the router did not close the port correctly about 25% of the time, which requires power cycling to undo. This drove me up the wall because closing a port is such a basic operation.
Firmware upgrade was a terrible experience. My WGR614v5 came with the initial release 1.03 firmware. I checked out their website, and there are firmware files for 1.07 and 1.09 that fixes the port forwarding editing, etc. I proceed to upgrade to fw 1.09, but the router would say that the upgrade was unsuccessful; the router still routed but now would disconnect every 10 to 30 minutes. I'm not talking about the wireless disconnecting because I'm using a hard wire instead of wireless during the upgrade. After many attempts and hardware resets, there was no resolution except reverting back to 1.03. Same thing with 1.07.
Netgear support responded several times to my inquiry without solving anything; they stopped responding after a while, then I got a reply about 3 weeks after their last reply asking if I still have the problem. I told them that I resolved the problem by replacing that piece of crap WGR614v5 with one of their competitors' products. My new wireless router (Linksys WRT54GC) port forwarded right out of the box and has been running without any problems whatsoever. It has not left any ports opened after my online gaming sessions. I feel so less stressed by my router now.
Digital camera Review: Absolute piece of rubbish
Summary: 1 Stars
I have had three replacements from Netgear and not one has worked. The most I have got is a short period of connectivity for a day or so then the whole thng dies. Save your money. DON't buy Netgear