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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...
The marketing approach is certainly working to confuse the users (and reviewers).
According to smallnetbuilder : http://www.smallnetbuilder.com/wireless ... um-edition
"NETGEAR is trying an interesting strategy in its wireless product line by having two top-of-line products. The company's marketing message for the WNDR3800 and 4500 is that you should choose the 3800 if you want the most features and the 4500 if you want the highest performance.
This puts buyers in an interesting position since spending the most money (for the 4500) doesn't get you the most goodies as shown in Figure 3."
And concluding its review for the WNDR4500 : http://www.smallnetbuilder.com/wireless ... l=&start=3
"NETGEAR has also thrown its own monkey wrench into your selection process by giving it (WNDR4500) a subset of the features of its less-expensive WNDR3800 sibling. If you're paying top-dollar for a wireless router, why shouldn't it have the best performance and feature set?
If you don't need three-stream N, you can give the WNDR4500 a pass. If you're set on a high-end NETGEAR router, the WNDR3800 would be your choice for features and the WNDR4000 for performance."
According to smallnetbuilder : http://www.smallnetbuilder.com/wireless ... um-edition
"NETGEAR is trying an interesting strategy in its wireless product line by having two top-of-line products. The company's marketing message for the WNDR3800 and 4500 is that you should choose the 3800 if you want the most features and the 4500 if you want the highest performance.
This puts buyers in an interesting position since spending the most money (for the 4500) doesn't get you the most goodies as shown in Figure 3."
And concluding its review for the WNDR4500 : http://www.smallnetbuilder.com/wireless ... l=&start=3
"NETGEAR has also thrown its own monkey wrench into your selection process by giving it (WNDR4500) a subset of the features of its less-expensive WNDR3800 sibling. If you're paying top-dollar for a wireless router, why shouldn't it have the best performance and feature set?
If you don't need three-stream N, you can give the WNDR4500 a pass. If you're set on a high-end NETGEAR router, the WNDR3800 would be your choice for features and the WNDR4000 for performance."
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