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NEW WNDR4000 N750Wireless Dual Band Gigabit Router is one of high performance routers introduced by Netgear in Jan 2011.

In CES-2011 Netgear showcased some new lines of wireless products including the High performance routers, Powerline AV adapters, home theaters wireless networking, and ADSL2 modem router. WNDR4000 N750 is one of the new High performance routers introduced by Netgear.

In the market, WNDR4000 was released couple of months later than Linksys. Linksys with its new E4200 N750 series shipped into the market earlier. In the second quarter of 2011, Belkin shipped its new product into the market the maximum speed Belkin N750 DB router. Both Linksys E4200 and Belkin N750 DB are powered by maximum speeds up to 450Mbps. What this WNDR4000 N750 product does?

High Speeds

The Netgear WNDR4000 N750 is powered by the latest wireless 802.11n with simultaneous dual band technology to support both 2.4GHz and 5GHz frequency band-based wireless clients. With N750 dual band, the router delivers the high speeds up to 450Mbps in 5GHz band and up to 300Mbps in 2.4GHz band. But in the real world, the wireless routers never reach the speed they specified due to many environmental factors. The router is ideal for larger home / home with multiple floors for smooth gaming, streaming HD media and less interference.

Theoretically this router is designed for faster speed than those previous N600 high performance routers such as WNDR37AV N600 or WNDR3400 N600routers. WNDR4000 can deliver the high speeds of up to 450Mbps – ideal environments for new laptops with built-in Centrino6300 wireless that supports the high speeds up to 450Mbps and it supports Microsoft® Windows 7, Vista®, XP®, 2000, Mac OS®, UNIX®, or Linux®.

Like WNDR37AV, the WNDR4000 N750 supports the gigabit Ethernet ports for both its LAN (4 ports) and WAN (1 port) interfaces. With Gigabit LAN Ethernet ports, you can connect client computers with gigabit NIC enabled – reliable wired connection to the router for optimum data throughput. Do you really need the gigabit speed? In business network environments which contain hundreds of computers, the gigabit speed is used as the backbone cable. In home usage with couple of computers I think you don’t need gigabit speed for normal works. But the speed difference will be apparent if you use it for streaming HD video and gaming as well large file data transfer.

Should you connect the Gigabit Ethernet ports to any gigabit-enabled computers, you must use Cat5e or Cat6 UTP network cable for maximum data throughput. Cat5e is the enhanced version of standard Cat5 twisted cables.

With gigabit WAN Ethernet port; you can optimally connect to the new DOSSIC 3 cable modem such as SBG6120 which includes gigabit Ethernet port. Gigabit WAN port doesn’t help you boost your internet connection actually. But the performance of your broadband internet from your ISP takes the important role in the performance of your internet connectivity. Increasing the bandwidth of your broadband internet will help.

USB Port

The WNDR4000 N750 includes one USB port with ReadyShare technology to allow you host a shared storage to be accessible by users across the network. Unfortunately you cannot host it for shared printer. If you need to share your printer across the network you can do it manually by attaching the printer to the computer and configure it for share. But if the volume of the print jobs is big enough, this consequently degrades the performance of your computer and can frequently freeze it if the computer is not powerful enough. Or you can purchase the wireless print-server such as from Linksys to allow share the printer wirelessly.

But if the requirements of the capability of sharing the printer and the storage concurrently exist, you better consider other routers such as new Belkin N750 wireless DB router. This is the first router by Belkin with N750 technology. Or you can consider new Asus RT-N56U Black diamond which includes 2 USB ports as well.

Advanced Security

How secure the router is? Like other Netgear high performance routers, besides typical wireless security WPA/WPA2, the WNDR4000 N750 router allows create Guest network each band. Totally the router supports up to four SSIDs. With Guest network you can create separate network to grant your guests / visitors internet access but with limited access rights to your local network. Thus, you can assure that they will not compromise the security of your internal network. The other important feature is free Live Parental Control to help you customize the internet filter settings for safe internet experiences for the family members.

In Amazon, customers provide positive reviews with averagely four stars (-) out of five stars customer ratings for ease of setup, reliability and speed. Linksys E4200 receives four stars averagely for ease of use, range and Mac compatibility. But surprisingly, Linksys receives averagely 2.6 stars for unreliable.

Netgear WNDR4000 N750 Vs Belkin N750 DB

You can compare this Netgear N750 router with similar router Belkin N750 DB and the main differences can be listed in the following table.

Netgear WNDR4000 N750 Vs Apple Airport Extreme

The comparison between Netgear N750 with Apple airport extreme, as usual that people will try to compare new router with Apple Extreme, can be shown in the table as follows:

Now you can consider the ultimate speed and range of new Netgear WNDR4500 N900 router with two USB ports.

The following diagram is general networking solution in homes wireless network that uses WNDR4000 N750 wireless N dual band gigabit router.

Connect the WAN port of the WNDR4000 router to the Ethernet port of broadband modem using the included network cable. With your XBOX console you can connect to the network by installing the wireless XBOX adapter such as Netgear WNCE2001 Wireless Internet Adapter. You can also add Apple TV or Roku to stream the HD media to your wide screen HDTV.

The WNDR4000 N750 wireless N dual band gigabit router is a new high speed router for high performance wireless environment for smooth gaming and HD media streaming. For simple networking with solid wireless connectivity, consider Amazon best seller (always in the top five best seller products) in router category: Medialink N150 router.

Pros:

1. Simultaneous Dual band technology – double bandwidth and supports Gigabit ports
2. Guest network
3. Averagely four stars customer ratings in Amazon

Cons:

1. USB port can be used to host shared printer

By Ki Grinsing

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