This is what you are waiting for the Netgear WNDR4500 N900 simultaneous dual band 450mbps each band – Ultimate speed and Range
Highlights:
- Double bandwidth up to 900Mbps
- Gigabit Ethernet Ports for LAN and WAN interfaces
- Two USB Ports for storage and printer
- Ideal for 3D and HD video streaming and fast gaming
- DLNA certified
Within the year 2011 Netgear introduces high performance wireless routers shipped into the market including WNDR4000 N750 router, WNDR3800 premium edition and true Mac router WNDRMAC. And now, Netgear is introducing the ultimate speed and range the WNDR4500 N900 router. This is not the first N900 router introduced into the market, few months ago Trendnet introduced TEW-692GR 450Mbps simultaneous dual band (N900) router.
This WNDR4500 is promising everyone’s expectation in delivering ultimate wireless performance in speed and range.
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Speeds
With N900, this is new when the last time you see the N750 technology in WNDR4000 and Linksys E4200, you can experience the blazing speeds up to 450Mbps each band. Is that true? Actually you will never reach those speeds in the real world, this is theoretical physical speeds. Having the N450 router, you should have your wireless clients to ride on this speed. So far Netgear ships the N300 wireless adapters, not ready for the N450 adapters. But you can consider the TEW-684UB Wireless USB 450Mbps Adapter, or wireless 450Mbps gaming adapter ( TEW-687GA).
WNDR4500 is marked with ultimate speeds knowing that both wireless and wired are engineered with wireless N900 and wired Gigabit speeds (LAN and WAN interfaces). Deploying this router in your large home you should also optimize the speeds of your desktop Ethernet to support gigabit speed if you wish to ride the blazing speed of gigabit fast lane.
Functionality
This WNDR4500 is the first product introduced by Netgear a wireless router with twin USB ports. The WNDR3800 premium edition is promising the capability of sharing storage or printer in a single USB port, the first step powering the router to support shared printer. But this one, Netgear would like to beat the full functionality of the twin USB port of Asus RT-N56U black Diamond.
Performance
You can compare the hardware resource with the previous Netgear High performance router regarding the memory:
| Flash | RAM | |
|---|---|---|
| WNDR4500 | 128Mb | 128Mb |
| WNDR4000 | 8Mb | 64Mb |
| WNDR3800 | 16Mb | 128Mb |
| WNDR3700 | 16Mb | 64Mb |
The last but not the least is that WNDR4500 is DLNA certified, assuring all types of DLNA compliant devices connect seamlessly to the router including Blu-Ray player, XBOX, HDTV etc.
WNDR4500 N900 Vs Linksys E4200 N750
The main differences between Wndr4500 and the Linksys E4200 are on the wireless technology and the USB port. Linksys E4200 uses wireless N750 technology doubling the bandwidth up to 750Mbps (450Mbps in 5GHz and 300Mbps in 2.4GHz), and Linksys is equipped only one USB port just for shared storage, not for shared printer. The newest version Linksys E4200V2 is the N900 router with share printer capability.
WNDR4500 N900 Vs Belkin N750 DB
Regarding the number of USB ports, Belkin N750 has the same number of USB ports for shared storage and printer. But Belkin doesn’t specifically mention that the router supports built-in UPnP media server except it includes Video mover application for easy video streaming. WNDR4500 is DLNA certified for seamless connection with other DLNA compliant devices.
WNDR4500 N900 Vs Apple Airport Extreme
As I said in other articles that each new router introduction people would like to compare it with the most popular Apple Airport Extreme. The main differences are the wireless technology, the number of USB 2.0 ports and Ethernet ports as shown in table below.
| Wndr4500 N900 | Apple Airport Extreme | |
|---|---|---|
| Wireless technology | N900 | N600 |
| Ethernet Ports | Gigabit ports: 4xLAN and 1xWAN | Gigabit ports: 3xLAN and 1xWAN |
| USB Ports | 2xUSB ports for storage and printer concurrently | 1xUSB port for either storage or printer. You can add USB hub to host storage and printer |
Let’s see how the users provide their opinions with this WNDR4500 ultimate speed. And you may also have a look at the newer model WNDR4700 N900 router with internal storage too.
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I have owned the WNDR 4500 and seen slower throughput with the 4500 (144 Mbps) vs my old WNDR 3700 which ran solidly at 300 Mbps. I also have a Linksys DMA 2200 media center that I connected using the wireless N 5.0 ghz channel with my WNDR 3700. Unfortunately I cannot even connect the WNDR 4500 to the media player. Netgear tech support has been involved and looks like I will be returning the WNDR 4500.