NETGEAR Wireless-N 150 DSL Modem Router DGN1000

3 Review to this product

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  Louis R. Agger Jr.
  October 26th, 2010 on 3:32 am

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  I’m totally pleased with my purchase. I did a lot of research before making the decision to buy. I made a good choice. Good product. Good price. Good delivery time. Soooo easy to setup. I was up and running in no time and without the frustration I usually experience with so many techie items. We run two laptops from all over the house and always have a strong reliable signal without wasting money running a desktop. When I added a wireless printer last week, there was NO problem completing the marriage to the Modem/Router. Love it! Thanks Amazon and thanks NetGear. I’d recommend it to anyone.
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  Victor Gomez
  October 26th, 2010 on 12:19 pm

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  As i bough one refurbished product I can’t refer to a new one so this is for the refurbished one, it works when it wants to work the range is limited even smaller than a 624g v3 from the same company that I own, has problem routing to different pcs or laptops when there is more than two it stops working even though it is connected to the internet and to the machines it stops sending packets to every computer.

  incredibly the wireless is faster than the Ethernet though the Ethernet has a lower latency

  I bough this router as a replacement for the phone company one and I will have to get one from the company and get a new contract with it just because this one did not delivered
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  Eden
  October 29th, 2010 on 12:44 am

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  Although the Netgear DGN1000 is advertised as a Wireless-N router, there is no setting for Wireless-N 150 for in the Router Firmware Settings. If you are looking for Wireless-N, look elsewhere. The only settings available are Wireless G and B. Looking for a resolution for Wireless-N from the Netgear site yielded no answers. Customer Support did not address or respond to the inquiries. Also, installation time for ended up to be over an hour, despite already having a working internet connection with a Linksys router prior to installing the new one.

  The networking portion works great but the DSL portion of the modem is questionable, since the Link / Internet light frequently dropped while attempting to connect to the Internet. The home has a clean connection with the ISP, with all phone filters properly connected. There were no problems with the previous Siemens SpeedStream ADSL Modem, which always had a solid unblinking light for the Internet. The latest ADSL Firmware Version (3.4.4.0.0.1) was later installed but the Link and Internet lights still only blinked and then turned off. Only after using the Setup CD to manually input the login information for my ISP via PPPoE, did the Internet light appear. The router / modem now works without any issues up to date.

  Our home connection is advertised to be 1.5Mbps theoretical, and connecting the new router resulted in speeds slightly faster than before by an average of 1Kbps using speed tests. Wireless security is slightly difficult to configure, and had to change around the encryption standards and passkeys for other computers to connect. Signal strength is typical for its class (5 / 5 bars), although does not compare to dual-band Wireless-N routers.

  Note: I bought another of these modem / routers at a later date to connect a Satellite box (which was able to receive overseas and foreign TV media) and I found out that the DGN1000 experienced similar issues, the main one being having a hard time detecting the DSL / Internet signal. The modem was unable to resolve an IP on its own, which resulted in a red blinking light for Internet, although the DSL Link light was green and solid. Since no computers were connected to the router, and only the Satellite box, a suggested solution would be to connect a laptop or netbook via patch cable and configuring the router manually.