Which similar products have you used?

DLink DWL-2100AP, Netgear WG602, Netgear WPN802, 3Com OfficeConnect Wireless 54 Mbps 11g Access Point (3CRWE454G75)

Summary

The WN802T offers great performance and stability for its price, and combines great styling with effortless setup. Anyone looking to move to Draft N wireless could do an awful lot worse than pick up one of these devices - I would strongly recommend it.

How long have you used the product?

1-3 months

What are the strengths?

The Netgear WN802T follows the same styling design as other Netgear products aimed at the home market - crisp, bright white casing, 3 LEDs to display power, LAN and WLAN and minimal labelling and branding. The lack of gaudy multicolour labels and a simple front panel makes it a much more aesthetically pleasing product than similar offerings from other vendors.
In common with a lot of the other Netgear home market products, the WN802T comes with a base to allow for standing the unit vertically on it's end, and also comes with a handy wall mount kit.

Configuring the unit could not be simpler - it is the tried and tested, easy to configure, and well laid out HTML interface that anyone who has ever used a Netgear product will be more than familiar with.

All of the standard features that you would expect from an access point are there, as is the ability to disable draft N, leaving you with standard 802.11 b/g access, as well as the ability to use RADIUS for authentication. Whilst thi

What are the weaknesses?

There are no included instructions on how to use the wall mount, which is confusing until you work it out! Also no wall plugs or screws are supplied.

It would be nice to see the availability to have more than one security profile running at the same time, as is available with the Netgear ProSafe accesspoints. This could allow you to have, for example, one profile running WEP for older clients, whilst a second profile is running WPA2 to support the newer clients, but this is a very minor gripe, and this is a unit aimed at the home market after all.