RamGuy
Senior Member
I've just made the switch from Linksys WRT320 Dual-Band router to the Netgear WNDR3700 Simultaneously Dual-Band router..
I made the switch after reading the review and was hugely impressed with the really powerful hardware in this device, along with it soon to be supported by DD-WRT made it no doubt that I wanted this device!
First thing first, the firmware is just meh.. Going from DD-WRT on my WRT320N to this is simply a huge step backwards in every possible way, but luckily there will be a DD-WRT firmware for the WNDR3700 soon!
There is just one thing that bothers me a lot with this device, it's the range of the wireless? The radius simply feels significant poorer than my WRT320N?
Considering I use almost identical wireless settings, I use the same wireless computer, in the exact same locations and the router itself is placed on the very same spot as the WRT320N it makes me wonder why the signal strength isn't able to put up with the WRT320N at all?
I was using N-only 5GHz, with MAC-filtering, hidden SSID and no encryption on the WRT320N, and now I'm running the very same settings on the WNDR3700 with the latest firmware and video network activated.
Only difference is that with the WNDR3700 I also have a 2.4GHz N-only network running for my Google Nexus One, as it doesn't support the 5GHz band and therefore can't connect to it.
In comparison to the WRT320N I get 4 / 5 bars in the Windows7 wireless console with the WNDR3700 compared to always 5 / 5 with the WRT320N, and the reported speeds are rarely above 180mbps, compared to the WRT320N when it barley never dropped below 200mbps.
When taking my laptop upstairs I always had 4 / 5 with the WRT320N reporting around 180-240mbps speeds.. The WNDR3700 have 2-3 / 5 bars and I never see any reported speed above 140mbps.
When taking my computer to the bathroom (yeah it happens that I do e-mail and stuff while taking a bath) the WNDR3700 becomes almost useless with 1 / 5 bars and barley any solid / stable connection at all, compared to the WRT320N where I normally would still have 3-4 / 5 bars and reported speeds over 100mbps?
How come the eight internal antenna design of the WNDR3700 seems to be so much poorer on the 5.0GHz band compare to the WRT320N which also features internal antennas (three?)?
Even when being in the same room as the WNDR3700, just 3m away from it in free sight I wont get reported more than 240mbps, it do happens if I take my laptop 1m away from it that I might see some reported 300mbps love, but that's really random, on the other side the WRT320N would give me reported 300mbps almost anywhere in the same room?
I made the switch after reading the review and was hugely impressed with the really powerful hardware in this device, along with it soon to be supported by DD-WRT made it no doubt that I wanted this device!
First thing first, the firmware is just meh.. Going from DD-WRT on my WRT320N to this is simply a huge step backwards in every possible way, but luckily there will be a DD-WRT firmware for the WNDR3700 soon!
There is just one thing that bothers me a lot with this device, it's the range of the wireless? The radius simply feels significant poorer than my WRT320N?
Considering I use almost identical wireless settings, I use the same wireless computer, in the exact same locations and the router itself is placed on the very same spot as the WRT320N it makes me wonder why the signal strength isn't able to put up with the WRT320N at all?
I was using N-only 5GHz, with MAC-filtering, hidden SSID and no encryption on the WRT320N, and now I'm running the very same settings on the WNDR3700 with the latest firmware and video network activated.
Only difference is that with the WNDR3700 I also have a 2.4GHz N-only network running for my Google Nexus One, as it doesn't support the 5GHz band and therefore can't connect to it.
In comparison to the WRT320N I get 4 / 5 bars in the Windows7 wireless console with the WNDR3700 compared to always 5 / 5 with the WRT320N, and the reported speeds are rarely above 180mbps, compared to the WRT320N when it barley never dropped below 200mbps.
When taking my laptop upstairs I always had 4 / 5 with the WRT320N reporting around 180-240mbps speeds.. The WNDR3700 have 2-3 / 5 bars and I never see any reported speed above 140mbps.
When taking my computer to the bathroom (yeah it happens that I do e-mail and stuff while taking a bath) the WNDR3700 becomes almost useless with 1 / 5 bars and barley any solid / stable connection at all, compared to the WRT320N where I normally would still have 3-4 / 5 bars and reported speeds over 100mbps?
How come the eight internal antenna design of the WNDR3700 seems to be so much poorer on the 5.0GHz band compare to the WRT320N which also features internal antennas (three?)?
Even when being in the same room as the WNDR3700, just 3m away from it in free sight I wont get reported more than 240mbps, it do happens if I take my laptop 1m away from it that I might see some reported 300mbps love, but that's really random, on the other side the WRT320N would give me reported 300mbps almost anywhere in the same room?