Netgear Wireless Router for the Home or Office

Netgear Wireless Router

By Anne Ahira

When any new technology is released, there are always market leaders and followers.

Generally speaking, the market leader is the company that either developed or purchased said technology.

In this article we are going to discuss a company that is a follower, or niche provider.

Netgear, Inc, designs, develops and sells networking products for both home users and small businesses. In the past few years the company has experienced a good deal of success with their small business clients around the world.

Currently, the company offers a full range of Internet components and accessories. These include Internet-enabled devices that allow file sharing, multiple personal computers, digital multimedia content and a number of specific applications.

The company’s most popular product to date is the Netgear wireless router. If you have never heard of a wireless router before, let us take a moment to explain exactly what it is.

The typical wireless router performs all of the same functions as a regular router, i.e., it connects you to the Internet, only it does not require the aforementioned wires. Rather, it relies on a wireless access point that allows users to quickly and easily go online without the need for a cabled connection.

The Netgear wireless router operates over a wired or a wireless LAN (local area network). It may also be compatible with some mixed networks. When it comes to the features of the Netgear wireless router, they are quite common.

And common is not necessarily bad, but we are referring to the fact that Netgear typically produces what you might call no-frills routers. That is, browsers that are competitively priced and do not offer users a lot of bells and whistles. In fact, that may be why they are such a hit with home and small business owners.

So, when it comes to features, the Netgear wireless router is a model of efficiency. They often include several LAN ports, which operate in the same way as a traditional port on a network switch. You can also expect to find a WAN port, which helps users connect to a much larger area network.

However, as we said, the LAN network is generally the only one that wireless users need. Lastly, the device will always include a wireless antenna. This gives users the ability to connect other wireless devices, such as repeaters, bridges and interface cards.

Why buy a Netgear wireless router?

As we mentioned, Netgear offers some of the most affordable wireless routers on the market today. But a Netgear wireless router is also extremely easy to use and to install.

There is no complicated programming process or any essential software that must be downloaded. All you need is Internet service and a computer to take advantage of all of the benefits of wireless routers.

For these reason and many more, wireless routers are easily the most popular routers for both small and large businesses. But Netgear chooses to advertise their products primarily to small businesses for one simple reason–they are competing on the basis of price and therefore they are not interested in a lot of fancy features.

Here's Netgear Wireless Router Selections:

Netgear Rangemax WNDR3700 Dual Band Wireless-N Gig...	Customer Review: This router I bought as an upgrade to the WNDR3300. It is more compatible with windows 7. New firmware is detected and easily installs. This router did wonder for the speed of my WIFI I phone 4 and laptop. It is extremely feature rich yet installs i... Read More	(281)
NETGEAR RangeMax Wireless-N300 Gigabit Router with...	Customer Review: I've been stumbling around on the internet using a Belkin G router for years now. I finally bit the bullet and purchased this Wireless-N router. I can't believe I waited so long. I used to drop the internet connection on all my computers all the time... Read More	$89.99 (38)
NETGEAR RangeMax Premium Wireless-N Gigabit Router...	Customer Review: My brother bought this thinking that it would be a good replacement for a 7 year old linksys. Junk, utter junk. We attempted to connect via the thing and it just wouldnt recognize the internet from the modem or something. So we thought it was just ... Read More	(113)
Netgear WGR614 Wireless-G Router...	Customer Review: I owned this unit for about 15 months and it worked fine. Last evening I opened my router log-in. The opening window does a search to see if new firmware is available. There was a update available. I downloaded the new firmware and tried to install i... Read More	(957)
NETGEAR WNR2000 Wireless-N Router...	Customer Review: Been using LinkSys since they have been around but had problems with the last two and decided it was time for a change. Been using a small NetGear router and was real happy with it so went for this one. Bought it about five months ago and it has work... Read More	(132)