Netgear shares a “Wireless home” vision
Netgear founder and CEO Patrick Lo kicked off a Sunday press conference at CES in Las Vegas with a description of Netgear’s overall vision since the company’s inception: an “all-access home” in which the user would have easy access to high-speed networking, “just like using power or heat.” Netgear’s major announcements for the year look to push this vision forward, with the emphasis being on problem-free streaming of high-def video and games to multiple sources simultaneously, a wider reach and one-touch setup for its wireless-N products, and a simplified networked home server to help families access their data from wherever they are.
Netgear focused on three product announcements during Sunday’s conference: first, the RangeMax Dual Band Wireless-N Router, which looked a bit like a glowing, oversized iPhone when Vice President of Product Marketing Vivek Pathela held it up for the room. The 802.11n router will support both 5 GHz and 2.4 GHz bands, which means more channels for devices to use when connecting to a network and less in-home wireless interference from other devices, such as microwaves, baby monitors, and cell phones. Another product announcement highlighted by Netgear was the HD/Gaming 5 GHz Wireless-N Networking Kit, a unit that allows users to stream bandwidth-intensive high-definition videos and games at high speeds, without choppiness, to wireless-N-enabled HDTVs, computers, and set-top boxes. Of course, in order to broadcast, you’ll need an archive of shows. Netgear also aims to simplify and centralize users’ multimedia libraries with the ReadyNAS Duo, a networked X-RAID home server that allows the user to upgrade its capacity by adding additional storage to its drive bays. HD video through WiFi? That sounds really good. More details available in the official press release.
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Excellent design
this is actually one of their older 108 Mbit routers, I didn’t find enough big picture of the new one.
update: ok some of our readers at irc found one, it’s pretty much same only different colours: http://www.blogsmithmedia.com/www.engadget.com/media/2008/01/wmrangemax-3.jpg
The design isn’t new though, I’ve got one that looks exactly like that. The only difference is that this one has Wireless support, so this one has an antenna and some other icons, while mine has more numbers.
“this is actually one of their older 108 Mbit routers, I didn’t find enough big picture of the new one.”
That might explain it.
well this pic is better
anyone know bout a price or place to order in europe?
dont you guys know you can have multiple free wifi connections if you know how to use backtrack 2
Everyone seems to be going on about their wireless n routers for HD streaming. Not alot of point investing yet as their are no HD capable wireless n streaming devices. Even the top of the range soon to be released divco 6100sh doesnt have wireless n.
Will be great once all devices are available and it truely is possible to stream HD to many devices around the home.
The sooner the I can wirelessly stream from the 4tb NAS at home the better.
I’ve always been with netgear and linksys product.
Me too…but do you think it is safe??
I’ve heard strange voices around wireless effect(on human being) in this day.I know it’s not like having a WiMax antenna in your house…What are your opinions guys?
#6: they haven’t unveiled the prices yet
cool there’s my router
well 2 icons have changed anyway
i got netgear 108mps rangemax adsl wifi modem with the wpn111 usb adaptor
do not buy it!, whenever u download over 500kbps, it gives u a blue screen of death, sayin some sh*t about memory dump
@7
unless you’re familiar with linux console, or whatever you want to call it, thats pretty dificult to figure out. it took me a few days of messing with it to finally even figure out what i was doing. but after that i absolutely loved it!!
oh no are we spammers now?
PLZ dont ban….we want to be helpful like you guys
I bought a netgear router on super sale ($10!), but everytime I used Emule or Utorrent, it overheated and tripped out my connection. I returned it, bought a D-link, and it works perfectly with no line drops for past 2 years. We also had to return a 24-port NetGear router at work because of flaky performance and disconnects.
since then, I avoid anything NetGear.
wasnt too many wireless connections at home bad for you?
i got a netgear wireless router and it works fine…once every few months i gotta reset it…it used to be once every month…but maybe a firmware fixed it? all in all netgears routers are ok…but it seems like alot of people are having problems with the connection being dropped
5GHz?
Does it compete with my microwave?
netgear can kiss my a**
bought their products and was very disappointed. they look nice, have a proper interface and are easy to use. but when in comes to stability they clearly suck. i dont wanna have to restart my router every few hours or lose the ability to forward ports when doing a firmware upgrade. that’s not the point of upgrades, are they?
i’ll stick with asus for now.
LOL wasn’t this what “wifi” was supposed to do?,
/still waiting for Wimax that has longer range than ADSL and preferably with new fast-tcp software that makes a DvD download in 1.5 seconds (but the fast-tcp bit is probably never going to happen as C.I.A. and other anti-infrastructure idiots that can’t make proper copy protections really are too damn brainless.)