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| DLink DWL-2100AP, Netgear WG602, Netgear WPN802, 3Com OfficeConnect Wireless 54 Mbps 11g Access Point (3CRWE454G75) | |||
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| Excellent Draft N Access Point | |||
| 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 this is a welcome feature in a business/enterprise grade access point, it may prove to be fairly useless for most home users without a machine on the network that supports RADIUS or 802.1x authentication methods. There is no plan to introduce this level of authentication in Windows Home Server either, so it may go largely unused. Having said all that, it is a great feature when used, and can be used with WPA and WPA2 methods of encryption in the WN802T. The encryption methods available will able to satisfy connections from wireless clients of any age as WEP, WPA-PSK[TKIP], WPA2-PSK[AES], WPA-PSK[TKIP]+WPA2-PSK[AES], WPA with RADIUS, WPA2 with RADIUS, and WPA+WPA2 with RADIUS. 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. The WN802T can run at all speeds supported by 802.11b and 802.11g, and using the Draft N MIMO technology, can reach theoretical speeds of 300Mpbs when combined with Draft N capable clients, such as those based on the Marvell 11n chipset. It is backed up by a gigabit LAN port to support data at greater rates than 100Mbps, although in reality, you would be very unlikely to see the full speed, even at close range. This is something that all access points will have in common, and is not unique to this product - you will almost never attain the full theoretical speed available. Most people using 802.11g will frequently connect at 48Mbps if they have a good signal, and would not often see the speed increase beyond that. My average speed using a mixture of Draft N and 802.11g clients was roughly 130Mbps and 48Mbps respectively, and when the unit was switched to Draft N only, the speeds attained were between 130 - 176 Mbps. The signal strength is very impressive. The unit has no external attennae, yet maintains a solid signal over a good distance. I set my WN802T up in my attic, and could get reach 130Mbps with about 80% signal strength, three floors downstairs in the cellar. Infact, the signal seems to reach out and find you. If you move a laptop to an area with a weak signal and connect to the unit, you can see it connect to the weak signal and then watch the signal increase in strength as the access point fine tunes transmission to your current location. This was apparent in all weak signal areas I tried to connect from. |
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| 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. |
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| 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. | |||
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