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DUAL VOLTAGE ON N300 WIFI ROUTER
I BOUGHT THE N300 ROUTER IN THE US, DOES ANYONE KNOW IF THEY ARE DUAL VOLTAGE AND I CAN TAKE IT TO EUROPE AND USE IT?
THANKS
You should verify it yourself by looking at the power adapter. If it is says the input voltage is 110V only, then it's US-only. If it says 110V-240V, then it's universal.
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You should verify it yourself by looking at the power adapter. If it is says the input voltage is 110V only, then it's US-only. If it says 110V-240V, then it's universal.
It is not dual voltage any more. Usually universal voltage type which will work with voltages from 110V to 240V with frequncy of either 50 or 60Hz. Most routers are like this. If you got the router locally it'll have different AC plug or plug adapter in the package.
One recent visitor to this place bought a router in the USA, took it to India, plugged it in, flash, fizz, boom.
But there is nothing special about the electricity that comes out of Netgear's transformers. So any transformer with the right output – volts and amps – and the right connector will work. It does not have to have Netgear written on it.
I hope we're in all in agreement that the OP needs to look at the adapter for his or her router to determine if it is single voltage or universal. Don't trust any of us to say whether it will work. If the adapter is not dual voltage, OP will still need to look at the specs in order to find a compatible, universal, 3rd party adapter.
Today's adapters are switching power supplies with wide range universal input AC voltage. Not like yesterday's inefficient step down bulky transformer, bridge rectifier filtered with lots of ripples, hums in the output. Whoever bought that adapter did not even read the label on the unit before plugging it in? Right connector with right polarity, Eh?
VE6CGX wrote:Today's adapters are switching power supplies with wide range universal input AC voltage.
Netgear seems to be the only company that, until recently at least, ships old style single-voltage adapters. I have getting on for a half dozen of them going back from one year old to the 20th century.
None of the modem/network stuff is dual voltage, including the newest.
The one exception is the USB style device that came with the Arlo camera I beta tested recently. That is dual standard. Maybe they ship different transformers in different markets. But it should say which is which on the back. That's how I know what I have got.
THANKS FIOR EVERYONE'S RESPONSES, THE ADAPTER STATES 100-240V, SO IT IS UNIVERSAL
