WN3000RP - purchase and review

cuclone3d wrote:

Staples has these in stock, I actually just received two of them yesterday. The only problem is, is that the initial firmware is super buggy. After initial configuration, good luck getting back into the configuration if you have the router up and running. It just doesn't work. I am using a Netgear DGND3700 router which we bought at the same time. They also have a major problem if you want to extend the signal with a second extender by connecting to the first extender. It will NOT assign you an IP address. They also have a problem with the Ethernet port on the back of my Dell Latitude E6410. It will not detect a connection, but if I plug it into the docking station port it works just fine. I have also verified that the port on the back of my laptop is functional by hooking it up to the network here. I am also having an issue where these things will randomely not accept the security key and will also randomely drop the internet connection. Seems like they really should have done some more testing before releasing these and should have fixed multiple show stopping bugs in the firmware. I will be contacting Netgear support to see if they have a new firmware that they just haven't posted yet.

+1, it's very buggy. Took me forever to get it working with my WNDR3700. It won't function properly if the AP you are making it connect to is using MAC addr filtering. This angered me like there's no tomorrow since it's one of many things used for security. Also I share out my iTunes on the home network. At sporadic times none of my other computers can connect to iTunes anymore. I spent hours thinking it was something else until I reboot the WN3000RP and it finally worked again. I hope they fix this stuff with a new firmware because I can't just deal with this type of BS and may need to return this thing.