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Review: NETGEAR RangeMax 240 Wireless Router

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thiggins   02-15-2006 at 09:32:58 PM

Not only this product, but all draft 802.11n products when running in their default high-speed mode will cause interference with 802.11b/g wireless LANs using Channel 6. Do you think this should be changed before the 802.11n standard is finalized?

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thiggins   04-19-2006 at 08:58:30 PM
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Posting this for a reader
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Hi, in your review you said you didn't want to break the shielding, someone already did it and reveal more details of RM240:

http://trash.uid0.hu/openwrt/wpnt834/
or
http://wiki.openwrt.org/OpenWrtDoc [...] ar/WPNT834

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a2dave   07-17-2006 at 06:35:41 AM
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There is more to a router than just speed. I recently tried a NetGear RangeMax 240 router but found that many of my current devices (e.g. an Apple Airport and a Linksys PAP2) could not reliably establish DHCP assignments from the RangeMax. Powering up the network requires a careful sequence of powering on the cable modem, then the router, then attached devices.

a2dave

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Deathrattle   07-27-2006 at 09:11:23 PM
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I picked this router up for the speed and hit a pretty interesting issue.

The wired portion of the router worked fine, but that is not why I bought it. What I found is there were numerous websites that I was unable to access when I used the wireless portion of the router.

I could ping and tracert to all of the sites but I could not open the website through my browser. When I compared the wireless tracert to the wired tracert I was surprised to see that they actually took different routes. I do not know if this is typical of wireless devices but I thought it was pretty odd. Not only were the routes different but the destination IPs were different. I hardcoded my DNS into both connections and it still translated the IP's differently and performed the same.

After going through a couple support people I finally found someone that recognized that the problem was a known issue. Unfortunately he could not tell me when the issue would be addressed.

Needless to say I returned the device.

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