Netgear Rangemax Dual Band Wireless N Router Ate My Balls
Let me just start off by saying that this router has a large button that says “LCD OFF/ON” so that you can throw a rave party… (wait for it) or not… in your computer room.
Sweet feature Netgear.
I had been borrowing a router from a friend (I hate buying hardware or electronics since theres so much extra laying around and it depreciates so fast) but then he said I had to return it.
I am on the other hand good at returning electronics (paging Pete Pelmo) so I returned it and headed to Best Buy.
Let me note that Best Buy is not usually the “Best Buy” out there, despite what their name and in-store cardboard cutouts of satisfied customers says.
Witness the 5′-11″ cardboard African American “hardware geek” in the laptop section who claims that he “just got a sweet deal on a new notebook PC”.
I know you folks have been trying to push that whole “notebook” thing for awhile but people call them laptops.
And this fella isn’t saying this in a dialog bubble but instead it’s displayed across his shirt. We’re supposed to also believe that this hip, ethnic guy who calls laptops “notebooks” also went and bought a shirt to celebrate it?
Good work advertising team, bagels are on me.
Anyhow I was looking around for about 30 minutes, I happened to notice a few things:
1. Everything seems overpriced. They operate on margins and if people aren’t consuming very much anymore they need to jack up the prices.
2. The store was very empty compared to a year or so ago; I was in the store at prime time 8:30 on a Thursday night.
3. There aren’t any helpful sales people milling around to ask questions you already know the answer to but just want tobe reassured about your purchase. Well, not unless you count two cardboard cutouts over by the “Geek Squad” area, who unlike what it says on their cutout aren’t all that helpful.
So after looking at all the routers and their on the box ratings (i’m not even kidding) of:
- Good
-Better
-Best!
I decided i’d treat myself to the “Better” one, which while it didn’t have “N Plus” technology (which I have no idea what that is) it did have just ordinary “”N Technology” (also don’t know what it is) and boasted 700ft of wireless coverage using it’s RangeMax technology.
It was $70.
Setting this thing up was a real bastard until I stopped following the directions and just winged it.
Finally it’s working and I go sit down at my desk, put on a helmet and prepared myself for high internet velocities…….
Wait a second, this fucker is slower than my old router.
I’m not kidding you. This sleep Apple inspired disco ball is slower than my old blue Linksys router with two antennas sticking out of it, you know the one.
I am planning on consulting full time and leaving my day job so I went out to my garage office thinking maybe it’s slow but has some super powerful signal. My garage is about 200 feet from my house, meaning that I could run to 7-11 for some beef jerky and take my laptop with me for the first 500 ft of the drive.
I sit down in my garage-office and I’m getting a spotty 56k speed signal.
I hate Netgear.
If you’re reading this and you run the new media/social media division for a competing router company you know what you need to do my friend.
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And this is why I dumped that same router you bought and bought a Linksys Ultra Rangeplus. The speeds were questionable and it would randomly drop connection and need a reset.
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Buy a CISCO router is you have the monies
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WTR54GS. Best router ever. Period. and if your feeling adventurous you can hack the firmware and set up a pay-per-connect hotspot on it for all of your thieving neighbors
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if you have the monies. haha
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