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Advantages: Built in firewall, Block Certin Traffic
Disadvantages: Can crash and needs Time to reset

The Netgear DG834G is one of Netgears ADSL wireless Routers and has been on the market for around Three Years and Retails for around £69.99 - £79.99. Often this routers are suppiled Free from ISPs. the router can support up to 4 Computers, up to 254 Wireless Devices and 1 ADSL Line. Right Now i Talk about the Good things about this router The Router uses a GUI (graphical user interface) Via a Internet expoler or FireFox router. You can access the ...
...have parental settings on the router to stop little eyes seeing anything naughty. The router also have a Built in Firewall which will block Unknown Ports and Ports conceded Harmful. The Router can only be setup to allow a few ports to go through such as Port 80 (HTTP) but if you wanted to you could blocked port 126 which is MSN Messenger. The Security is very High on this router and is ideal for family's who have a few computers in there house and ... Read review

Advantages: fast connection by wireless or wire, reliable
Disadvantages: not as cheap as some but worth it, ignore quick setup

...which compared to my old Netgear wgt634u which was aweful for needing rebooting after it lost connection to my pc. Wi-fi coverage hasn't let me down where I have used it. Overall it doing a good job without me needing to do anything to it, as it should be just connect it to the modem and pc and leave it alone without the hassle of constantly having to worry about it overheating or having some connection issue. I got mine from Dabs, who as always ... Read review

Advantages: Good Security
Disadvantages: Bad Reliability

NETGEAR ROUTER DG834N + WN121T ADAPTER The company I work for, which will remain nameless, bought a small amount of these routers at Christmas; just about everybody in the company has had a problem, mainly with the wireless connection failing intermittently or no wireless connection at all. Now the companies IT department has just received a new batch directly from Netgear, my new replacement router lasted 4 days, now it keeps losing wireless connection ...
...from this model DG834N The DG834GT router I had before this one, had no problem at all I have installed the DG834, DG834G and DG834GT for family and friends and have always liked the Netgear routers until now; it's very possible they have design problem with the DG834N model? ... Read review

Advantages: Works very well 3 floors up.
Disadvantages: If you are on Vista, takes a costly telephone call to get you connected.

We bought this wireless router as my son wanted to use his Wii on the internet. His room is on the 3rd floor and the computer and router are on the ground floor. It was simple to set up and the instructions were good, however, because we are using Windows Vista, nothing is ever straight forward. With one longish phone call to India, via the number on the instructions to ring, everything was sorted out. The phone call took 35 minutes for which I ...
...is no way I could have worked it out for myself, it was far too complicated to get this router to work on Vista. Once it was working though everything has gone smoothly. I do find that the internet is somewhat slower however he has a great connection on the 3rd floor and we have no complaints. Although the initial set up was frustrating and involved a costly telephone call, it is worth the money and works very well. ... Read review

Advantages: Extended range, capable of streaming HD video (mostly)
Disadvantages: Susceptible to interference, needs matching adapters

...to losing connections than other Belkin routers I've used - any local microwave, dect phone, or next doors wireless router can bring your connection down and though reconnection is usually instant it does occasionally require a reboot of the pc or the router (or both). Overall i don't think its worth the price premium over others in the range unless the additional signal strength and distant is vital to your requirements. Its certainly not something ... Read review