Old generation of Netgear WGR614 wireless router’s main features:
- Powered by wireless G standard up to 54Mbps
- Advanced security including live parental control, internet threats protection, WEP and WPA/WPA2
- Eco-friendly router, wireless and power on / off buttons
- Broadband usage meter
Wireless technology evolves very fast in the last five years time. When you purchased the wireless G router, it was very fast at that time delivering the speeds up to 54Mbps while at the same time many of networking devices (including computer’s NIC adapters and game consoles) were still equipped with 10Mbps Ethernet adapter. This could be 5 times as fast as 10Base-T technology.
If you originally stepped from the 10Mbps wired connection from the computer to the network, with the WGR614 wireless G router you can feel the difference in speed almost five times as fast as 10Mbps-NIC adapter if your wireless clients use the same wireless G standard too. The Netgear WGR614 is powered by wireless –G technology delivering the speeds up to 54Mbps works in single 2.4GHz band.
The router includes four-port 10/100mbps Ethernet switch, fair number of Ethernet ports to let you connect your computers that do not have Wi-Fi adapters. Or you can connect any DVR, game console and HDTV with Ethernet enabled to let them connect to the internet.
Connecting your network to the internet, you can connect the WAN port of the router to the modem either cable or DSL modem with broadband internet services from the ISP.
The Netgear WGR614 is the old generation of wireless routers with 802.11G standard with the maximum speed you can get is up to 54Mbps. Now, probably you are wondering why it doesn’t provide fast responsive gaming and even experience jitter and lag in streaming video from the internet. Should you upgrade for better performance? The affordable router you may consider to upgrade to is the Netgear WNDR3400 router.
What improvements you may have by upgrading your existing WGR614 with the WNDR3400 router?
WNDR3400 main features:
- Powered by the latest wireless N technology
- Supports simultaneous dual band technology for both 2.4GHz and 5GHz bands at the same time delivering up to 300Mbps each band
- Includes four-port 10/100Mbps switch
- Advanced security features
- Includes one USB ports you can use to attach an external storage for share
- Guest network for network segmentation for the guests
Lots of benefits you can get by upgrading your existing WGR614 router to the new generations of Netgear WNDR3400 N600 router including dual band supports, USB share storage and guest network.
With WNDR3400 you can upgrade the speed of your broadband internet plan for better plan to experience fast responsive online gaming with your XBOX and smooth streaming HD video to your HDTV wirelessly if you use such kinds of universal internet adapter for example Netgear WNCE2001.
The figure below shows you common networking diagram with Wndr3400 as the center of the network and XBOX, HDTV connect to the network using WNCE2001 adapter.
For maximum speeds and range in your large home and backyard, you may consider the ultimate speed of Netgear WNDR4500 N900 router. Can you imagine the speed improvement from the 54Mbps jump to 450Mbps? That’s the theory, in the real world you can taste the N900 router performance.
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