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Help me select between Netgear routers N600 and N900
I am looking to upgrade my cable router to support gigabit and 802.11 N wifi. I have a Sparc Duo and other Netgear switches like GS108. Anyone here have experience with N600 (WNDR3800) and/or N900...
In most cases these features are just marketing.
alokeprasad wrote: I was deciding between the top of the line (N900) and the one (N600) that is slightly slower (and cheaper) but has some features that are unique to it. Like clearchannel, videomode, readysharecloud, timemachine and TiVo support.
-Clearchannel selects the best channel, the "auto" setting on the others does essentially the same thing.
-The N750 and the N900 also support ReadyShare with USB drives, allowing you to access the contents over the internet. I am not sure exactly how that differs from "readysharecloud", but it sounds basically the same. "
-Videomode" just means streaming your video over 5 Ghz (per http://www.downloads.netgear.com/files/ ... EC2011.pdf), any dual-band router will do that.
-The N600 has DLNA with Tivo support, the N900 also has DLNA but doesn't mention Tivo. The N750 manual doesn't mention DLNA.
-All support ReadyShare USB. None of their manuals mention timemachine explicitly. I suspect they all are compatible.
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