Barry Samuels wrote:
Does anyone have experience of Netgear Rangemax products?
I was hoping to move my desktop into another room but that is beginning to seem unlikely.
I originally had a Netgear WG602 which is a plain vanilla wireless access point and in my desktop I have an on-board wireless chip with an external aerial and I also have a D-Link AirPlus XtremeG PCI wireless card. Both receivers give similar performance with the WG602.
That combination didn't give a good enough signal in the room that I want to use. My next step was to buy a Netgear WPN802 RangeMax wireless access point which is supposed to gve up to 10 times the range of a 'normal' WAP. A trial showed that it gave a signal which was slightly less good than the WG602 in conjuction with either of the two receivers.
Someone suggested that I should use a RangeMax card to get the best effect so I bought a WPN311 RangeMax PCI card. That, together with the WPN802 RangeMax WAP gave results that were no different from the original setup.
Surely Netgear can't get away with stating that that combination will give up to 10 times 'normal' if it does not improve performance at all?
Am I doing something wrong (apart from buying Netgear)?
This reply is not intended to be cynical but... [your email is been there done that]! i thought i'd give it a reply.
I decided not to even bother with wireless and used a Netgear XE102 Powerline setup for where i live. For the hardship of 5 secs to fit i wonder why it is not more popular. Thick house walls and an annexe quite a distance away i thought not even worth trying. Last summer my brother had no end of problems and none of it due to his equipment - now all ok but was it worth the grief?
Why are folk generally derogatory towards Netgear and why not save yourself the grief and expense of wireless and use powerline? The unit costs the same as a wireless card from ebuyer. I've had 7 months of faultless use so far.
james