WGU624 Double 108 Mbps Wireless Router, 802.11g, b, a
1 Netgear- Fix this lemon!
This wireless router required constant reboots to maintain its connection to the internet. Maybe a future firmware update will resolve the issue of using 128bit WEP security, but who can wait for functionality that should work out of the box.
2 Not ready for prime time
I bought the WGU624 before reviewers had time to play with it. I'll not make a mistake like that again. First, despite the claim of improved range it failed to deliver a useful signal to a location that my old D-Link managed to reach with decent signal quality.
Other than that, it ran well. The fun started when an electrician accidentally killed the breaker to my computer room. I don't know if a spike zapped something in the router but it never behaved right afterwards (although none of my other gear had this problem). It began by losing connections on the port-forwarding services. I had to keep restarting my email client to reach my mail server.
I finally decided to start over, following the instructions for resetting the router back to factory defaults. After that, the router dropped *all* connections after about 45 minutes. Repeating the reinstall didn't help.
To be honest, I never contacted Netgear's tech support about it. I'd read that they weren't very helpful and I didn't have the time or patience to go through that when I run a business depending on that router. I went to BestBuy and picked up a Linksys WRT54G for fifty bucks and it's run flawlessly.
3 Terrible throughput problems with Netgear WGU624
I just purchased the recently released Netgear WGU624 dual band a/b/g wireless router with the matching Netgear WAG511 adapter and I am having troubles downloading files at the maximum speeds offered by Comcast. Both wired and wireless computers are affected. Transfering within the LAN is no problem, I get better speeds than I did with my old routers, but trying to download from any site on the WAN, my speeds slow significantly to anywhere from 30k to 2k. I have no idea why. Browsing with Firefox seems fine though. Playing with the MTU values have no effect.
4 Does NOT perform as described. Stay away from that product!
1) Constantly drops connection. Only seems to be stable in 'g only' mode without encryption (open system)
2) Poor tech support. The unit was replaced by Netgear with $15 shipping charges; however the replacement's performance issues are the same. As of now, the only security future that I'm able to use is MAC filtering.
