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(More customer reviews)"Designed for Linux Developers & Open Source Experts" is marketing spin for "our router is broken and you'll have to fix it."
For starters, this router is marketed toward Open Source fans, but when you first start the router, it takes you through one of those 'configuration wizards' for setup, and it REQUIRES Internet Explorer. There's IE-specific JavaScript on the first page of the setup wizard, which is simply asking "Do you want to run the setup wizard?" and has yes and no radio buttons and a continue button. There's no reason for even having scripting on this page, but they put broken IE-only script there and the continue button doesn't work. Absolute incompetence.
After getting past the wizard, though, the normal web interface works in Firefox. But there are more problems to come. The router's DNS server is buggy and slow, and the router FORCES you to use it. I often couldn't get through to websites. It hijacks any DNS requests destined for a server on the Internet and handles them itself, so you can't go around the problem. Someone made modified firmware with a different DNS server. You need this custom firmware for the router to be usable at all. It will still hijack DNS with the modification, but it won't be so broken. This router is terrible.
I initially thought that my DS Lite didn't work at all with this router, but I found out quite unintuitively that you have to configure it in 'g-only' mode. The original DS and DS Lite are both b-only, so this is the only setting that logically shouldn't work, but it's actually the only setting that does work.
I also had connectivity issues with my Wii, but I seem to have sorted those out, and I'm not even sure what I did. The router would crash sometimes when I connected a device (Wii, DS, my laptop) and I've have to manually reset it.
I have it mostly working now but it just wasn't worth the trouble. If I knew in advance how much work it would be, I wouldn't have bothered. Only buy this if it's the cheapest router available, you have hardly any money, you desperately need a wireless router, it doesn't need to work well, and you've got plenty of free time to sink into tinkering with it. This router is terrible.
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This Netgear WGR614 Open-Source Wireless-G 4-Port Router delivers open source code for Linux developers and hobbyist! Because of the open-source code the router uses, you can create firmware for specialized applications such as gaming, VoIP (voice over Internet protocol), security or increased signal strength!This 4-port wireless router delivers up to 54 Mbps maximum data transfer rate and offers greater flexibility with dual detachable antennas! Additionally, the Wireless-G router delivers up to the WAN-to-LAN throughput of other Wireless-G routers! The WGR614 router admits only legitimate traffic by combing two proven standards: NAT (Network Address Transfer) and SPI (Stateful Packet Inspection). It also delivers the highest level of wireless network security with WPA (Wireless Protected Access)!
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