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Pros & Cons
Pros
This unit performs extremely well! It maintains 11 mbit over 100 feet away inside! When i am on the main floor it is rock solid at 11 meg. The ap is in the basement, the laptop with wireless orinico gold card is 2 floors up and running at 6 meg.
The me102 is a great accesspoint and should work well for anyone wanting to install a network in their house. The downside is for the price dlink offers more for the money by including a router/print server in the unit. My configuration:cisco router f... Read More
Cons
Cable modem and dsl providers who assign a dynamic ip address instead of a static address causes incompatibility with the access point. Poor documentation, lack of web based interface, glitchy xp drivers and total absence of apple drivers make this a ... Read More
Highlights
Quality
Basically i love the product-- in fact i've never gone wrong with netgear.
This isn't a problem with the wireless access point.
Encryption brought the dlink to a crawl with the access point and adapter in the same room.
Netgear: get your act together and upgrade your security on this product.
Price
The downside is for the price dlink offers more for the money by including router/print server in the unit.
Competitiveness
Don't forget to set the encryption to at least 64bit.
I bought a dlink access point and usb adapter from amazon and had nothing but trouble getting it to function in a stable manner.
However, i'm not giving you any guarantee nor would the resulting configuration be covered by netgear's 24x7 service.
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- Our engine has analyzed and discovered that 45.0% of the reviews are reliable.
- This product had a total of 25 reviews as of our last analysis date on Apr 14 2023.
Helpful InsightsBETA
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
The firmware upgrade also includes new management utilities the ones on the cd wont work correctly
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
The downside is for the price dlink offers more for the money by including routerprint server in the unit
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
Netgear support is awful dont expect them to help you if you run into troubles
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
One one older netgear switch fs 108 we had some heat problems that others have noticed and written about as well
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
I bought a dlink access point and usb adapter from amazon and had nothing but trouble getting it to function in a stable manner
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
Returned it to amazon and got a netgear
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
Encryption brought the dlink to a crawl with the access point and adapter in the same room
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