Wow...I picked up a WNDR4500 yesterday and I've been playing around with it a bit (and unlocked the Telnet console within the latest stock Netgear firmware: V1.0.0.70_1.0.1. This baby cranks out some serious radio power:
# wl txpwr
31.75 dBm = 1496 mw.
# wl txpwr1
TxPower is 127 qdbm, 31.75 dbm, 1496 mW Override is Off
Sitting in the same room with it (or one room over) I was passing 258 Mbps of TCP traffic to my laptop (that has a 4331 3x3 client card in it). This was with 5GHz/40MHz. With 2.4GHz/20MHz I was passing 172 Mbps. With 2.4GHz/40MHz I was passing 253 Mbps. All of this is with WPA2 security enabled, of course. _________________ 1 x WRT310Nv2 (400/200/100)
3 x WRT320N (480/240/120)
1 x E4200 (532/266/133)
(All running the latest DD-WRT!)
Wow...I picked up a WNDR4500 yesterday and I've been playing around with it a bit (and unlocked the Telnet console within the latest stock Netgear firmware: V1.0.0.70_1.0.1. This baby cranks out some serious radio power:
# wl txpwr
31.75 dBm = 1496 mw.
# wl txpwr1
TxPower is 127 qdbm, 31.75 dbm, 1496 mW Override is Off
Sitting in the same room with it (or one room over) I was passing 258 Mbps of TCP traffic to my laptop (that has a 4331 3x3 client card in it). This was with 5GHz/40MHz. With 2.4GHz/20MHz I was passing 172 Mbps. With 2.4GHz/40MHz I was passing 253 Mbps. All of this is with WPA2 security enabled, of course.
Its faster, that is indeed true, but range is somewhat inferior to the WNDR3700 if you have a lot of brick/RC walls/columns/ceilings in your house.
Its faster, that is indeed true, but range is somewhat inferior to the WNDR3700 if you have a lot of brick/RC walls/columns/ceilings in your house.
That hasn't been my experience. I have both the 3700v1 and the 4500 and the range for the latter on both 2.4 and 5Ghz is superior; it covers my entire house much better than the 3700.
The 3700 now spends its time at my (much smaller) vacation home
Its faster, that is indeed true, but range is somewhat inferior to the WNDR3700 if you have a lot of brick/RC walls/columns/ceilings in your house.
This is not my experience. I have a large 3 story all brick house (5000 sq. feet). I was standing outside with my iPad getting 38 Mbps via Speedtest, and two floors away in my basement I am getting ~110 Mbps transfer rates to my laptop. It's all about proper positioning of the router. The internal antennas of each router are placed differently inside, so they are going to behave differently/directionally. I fiddled around with the placement of it a bit (like spinning it around on my desk 180 degrees, etc. and was amazed.
It's actually quite a bit better than my e4200 or my WRT320N. _________________ 1 x WRT310Nv2 (400/200/100)
3 x WRT320N (480/240/120)
1 x E4200 (532/266/133)
(All running the latest DD-WRT!)
I also find this router to be amazing. I encountered an internet/DNS issue with the .70 firmware and entered a support ticket and am now running .73 with which the problems went away and it rocks better than it did on either .58 or .70.
I have an abundant home as well and the coverage is stupendous. I have a 370 meg file I use for testing from a NAS and it transfers on the 5ghz with 3x3 on an Intel 5300 AGN in half the time the E4200 did. I ran both DD-WRT and Toastman's Tomato builds on the E4200s and found Tomato faster.
It will be interesting when 3rd party firmware shows up for this router, but while the feature set and control will improve...I just hope the performance stays. I have multiple devices on both radios, all 4 wired ports active, DDNS, Port Forwarding, WPA2 AES and all works well
Its faster, that is indeed true, but range is somewhat inferior to the WNDR3700 if you have a lot of brick/RC walls/columns/ceilings in your house.
This is not my experience. I have a large 3 story all brick house (5000 sq. feet). I was standing outside with my iPad getting 38 Mbps via Speedtest, and two floors away in my basement I am getting ~110 Mbps transfer rates to my laptop. It's all about proper positioning of the router. The internal antennas of each router are placed differently inside, so they are going to behave differently/directionally. I fiddled around with the placement of it a bit (like spinning it around on my desk 180 degrees, etc. and was amazed.
It's actually quite a bit better than my e4200 or my WRT320N.
Well I have to agree with you, when MAX throughput is needed this is the baby
this payloads the fastest mips32 architecture inside a consumer router to date. this uses 74k high performance synthesized cores
I am also noticing that this device has adjustable tx power, right now atheros devices push the 1watt threshold.. this takes it and adds another 1/2 watt.. I was able to set tx power 1.49 watts with stock firmware. I will be posting more information in the next few days about it, and if the devs need anything I am able to dump the CFE or any other important information.
Interesting to see people finding the WNDR4500 to have better range than the WNDR3700. Like I said, I find the opposite. Likely because my house is built differently. In my apartment in Australia, the WNDR4500 did have better range, and even here, it has a stronger signal when uninterrupted, but lower range.
How do you see on this router if it is in 40MHz mode for the Guard Interval? There is no setting 20/40/Auto on the router. I also thought you couldn't have 40Mhz mode if B and G were enabled, but there is no way of disabling those on the 2.4Ghz band either.
NetGear uses a somewhat different approach to channel width selection. On the wireless setup screen for both radios under SSID and channel you will find a selection for mode. Changing this from 450mbs to 217mbs selects 20ghz bandwidth.
. This baby cranks out some serious radio power:
