$49.99 for a wireless router and 2 USB NICS? that’s pretty good price, I’d go woot if I wasn’t going to Hawaii in a week. Woot delivers one product a day for a great price. I actually looked at this router the other day when I had to shop for a router for work.
Sure, lots of bad things come in threes. Celebrity deaths. Poison ivy leaves. Installments in the Fast and the Furious franchise (Japan becomes the land of the rising speedometer when hunky new action droid Lucas Black burns up the most honorable streets in The Fast and The Furious: Tokyo Drift! Catch it in theaters June 16, or just swallow a bottle of sleeping pills and get the whole thing over with now!). But plenty of good things come in threes, too, from stooges to tenors to primary colors to Mark Wahlberg’s nipples. While the three pieces of this Netgear 802.11g Wireless Networking Bundle can’t sing like Placido Domingo or gouge eyes like Moe Howard, they deserve a place in that troop of triumphant triumvirates.
When the Netgear WGR614NA 4-port, 802.11g router joins forces with the two Netgear WG111 802.11g USB 2.0 adapters, they collide in a thunderclap of superfast wireless networking, the like of which the world had never seen until a few years ago. Fifty-four miraculous megabits of data per second will zip through the air from the router to up to two computers, and you can use the four wired ports to add even more devices to your growing network family. Even those sad old 802.11b devices can join in – why kick them when they’re down?
OK, you knew this was coming: the drawbacks. It seems this bundle is only WEP-encrypted (no WPA), which is nice as far as it goes, which isn’t really far enough, which is why Netgear has included other security features like Stateful Packet Inspection and Denial of Service Prevention, which purport to keep the identity thieves and the bandwidth leeches at bay, which may or may not help you sleep better at night.
If you start to get a little paranoid about all those hackers out there, just think about the billions of microorganisms living on or in your own body, crawling and eating and laughing and loving and defecating all over your skin and hair and mouth and intestines, every second of every day, without end, without any fear that you’ll stop them, because you’ll never be able to. All this time you’ve been living your life as a moveable Manhattan of ravenous, hairy, microscopic parasites. Think about it long enough and you can almost feel them on you… Wait, what were we talking about before?
Warranty: 90 days
WGR614 Router Features:
* Speeds of 802.11g – up to 5x faster than 802.11b
* 10/100 Mbps on WAN
* Double Firewall – SPI & NAT
* Smart Wizard automatically detects ISP settings and walks you through installation
* Compatible with 802.11b devices and 802.11g devices
* Shares broadband Internet access to every PC in your home
* Wi-Fi Protected Access Pre-Shared Key (WPA-PSK)
* Up to 128-bit WEP encryption
* VPN pass-through support
* MAC address authentication
WG111 Adapter Features:
* Fast 54 Mbps speeds for your desktop or notebook PC
* Up to 5x faster than 802.11b
* Connects with USB 2.0 interface, enabling full transfer speed
* Compact, pocket-sized design
* Experience improved range above most Wi-Fi networks
* Plug into external USB slot for wireless connectivity at home, office, or away
* Compatible with existing 802.11b and 802.11g networks
* Hardware-based 40/64-bit and 128-bit WEP encryption
* Works with all standard 802.11g and 802.11b wireless routers and access points
* Hardware-based 40/64-bit & 128-bit WEP encryption
* Easy Setup via Smart Wizard Install Assistant
* New Antenna technology allows wireless access at ranges greater than ever before
* Modulation Type, 802.11b: Direct-Sequence Spread Spectrum (CCK, DQPSK, DBPSK)
* Modulation Type, 802.11g: Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (64QAM, 16QAM, QPSK, BPSK)
* Dimensions: 3.7” x 0.6” x 1.2”
Tags: Discount, Interesting, Networking
