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Netgear WGT624 Router

Netgear - WGT624NARelease Date: Mar 2007

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Number of Reviews: 40
Positive Reviews: 55%
Negative Reviews: 45%
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Positive Review

Reviewed by: nileshnirmal on 13-Jun-09

Strengths: need to know

Weaknesses: need to know

Summary: I am looking forward to buy this router. But before buying I want to confirm 1 thing. Does it allows VPN passthrough? If it does, do we need to configure specific settings or will it work with default settings.

Positive Review

Reviewed by: 06-Dec-07

Strengths: its all good

Weaknesses: none

Summary: I have had no problems with this wireless device its great> i have had it 7 months now. it was so easy to set up and get running.

Negative Review

Reviewed by: fufeng on 28-Jun-07

Strengths: None

Weaknesses: Dropping off connections

Summary: It worked fairly well for about 6 months. It starts to drop off connections recently. I have one computer connected through network cable, three computer connected using wireless. The router starts to drop off connections to one or two computers randomly, reboot the router will re-connect, some time you have to reboot the computer too. The problem gets worse and worse, it will drop every 20 minutes or so now, basically not usable. I have a spare brand new DI-524 from D-link, trying to replace this one but it has the same problem even it is a brand new!

Positive Review

Reviewed by: LovePharmD on 30-Apr-07

Strengths: great product

Weaknesses: not I know of

Summary: Great product! It is easy to set up for my internet system. It has the wide range with 4X and faster speed with 2X. Also, it is a super G with 108 MBPS.

Negative Review

Reviewed by: plainjp on 14-Apr-07

Strengths: Advertising

Weaknesses: Quality

Summary: This is the second netgear router I've had...the first lasted 1 year and 1 week...just beyond warranty. Purchased another (current router) and this one lasted 10 months and is now considered defective. Network kept going down to the point I had to continually reconfigure the router. Network would only stay up for a max of 3 days and sometimes went down 3 or 4 times a day. Paid for a service call (netgear only provides free support for 90 days) and have been working with support on resolving the problem for a month now. They have finally said it is defect and they will provide a replacement, and this is like rubbing your face in it, but they will not ship the new router until they receive the old. If however I want to pay extra (about $20) they will ship before they receive the defective router. I have logged a comment under the trouble ticket that this is unacceptable.

Positive Review

Reviewed by: donzebe on 07-Sep-06

Strengths: Its fast works great and the price is right

Weaknesses: none

Summary: If you are having problems with this product get a technician to install it for you. NetGear WGT624 Wireless 802.11G 108 Mbps is a great product i have use other routers before and have been using NetGear WGT624 Wireless 802.11G 108 Mbps for a while its fast and easy to use. From the floor of my basement to the third floor the reception is very good. Try one to experience it.

Negative Review

Reviewed by: wgdz on 06-Sep-06

Strengths: Decent avg use routerSlick look

Weaknesses: Not for gaming purposes

Summary: This router have good looks but I h8 it for gaming. My connection drops out completely around once every 30-1 hr that becomes annoying. When this happens I will be booted from my online game. While surfing the net this happens too as when it drops, it takes around 10-20 secs before a web page loads up. After 4 month of crappy drops and all I switched to ZyXEL X-550 which I did a lot of research and found a good price for it. For gamers and p2p users I would seriously recommend the ZyXEL X-550. ZERO drops after two weeks of heavy usage and very noticible faster internet speeds. The ZyXEL have many features look it up I am sure you won't be disappointed. As a wise man said before, what you pay is what you get.

Negative Review

Reviewed by: gravesee on 20-May-06

Strengths: There are none

Weaknesses: It dropps the connection. The technical help is worthless.

Summary: It worked great for about 2 weeks. Then it would not hold the DSL connection. I could not even login to it with the username and password that was printed on the bottom. I finally trashed it and purchased a D-Link. The D-Link works great.

Negative Review

Reviewed by: mdjorie on 22-Feb-06

Strengths: It looks cool

Weaknesses: Very unstable, had a huge headache both with customer service and router itself

Summary: I purchased a refurbished version of the same router less than a month ago, due to my own mistake (the website listed it as a refurb way at the bottom, where I didn't read). Two weeks later it totally stopped working, basically stopped giving out IPs to wired computers and no internet for either wired or wireless. The company I got it from does not accept returns on refurbs, and Netgear told me they will not RMA refurbs, only give technical support (basically telling me over and over to reset it or renew my IP). I'm out of $45.Not learning my lesson fully, I still purchased this newer version of the router, thinking that a brand-new one would not have the same potential for breaking. I hooked everything up correctly (as usual)... The router took a good minute to load the settings page, and after I changed some it just went to a "This page cannot be displayed" without wanting to do anything at that point.I didn't bother resetting it, restarting it, all that bullshizz... I took it back to the store and am now shopping for a Linksys. I've owned routers for years and years (2-3 Linksys-es, 1-2 D-Links) and I've never seen such despicable service both from a company or a particular product. BTW, Netgear offers a 90 day support free of charge (and 1 year warranty) and afterwards it's email or you pay -- something along those lines.

Negative Review

Reviewed by: GKobay on 19-Nov-05

Strengths: easy set up. works fine at shorter distances

Weaknesses: Poor past 75 feet

Summary: This didn't work very well more than 75 feet away, I went and returned it for a BELKIN F5D9230-4 G+MIMO which seems to work throughout my larger house, even though I didn't upgrade my G notebook card yet to the G+MIMO

Negative Review

Reviewed by: jedm on 13-Sep-05

Strengths: None

Weaknesses: Yes

Summary: I purchased this router after using wired netgear products for years w/out issue. With the WGT624 I went through 2 routers from netgear both malfunctioned in the same way. 1st dropping the connection and then not responding at all - to pings or at the admin IP.I went through the support steps and netgear is refunding my purchase price. My point here is to stick with the support process if for nothing else but getting your money back.Then atleast you can buy a router that works. I ended up with a Belkin54g that seems to play well with macs and pcs

Positive Review

Reviewed by: amitdhariwal001 on 10-Jul-05

Strengths: high speed, reliable, secure

Weaknesses: one antenna

Summary: range is quiet good. Belin one with 2 antennas has better range though. Good security and great firewall protection. Mac address filter is good. Havent had any problem set up or use in last 1 month.

Positive Review

Reviewed by: glenva2003 on 29-Jun-05

Strengths: Fast; easy to set up

Weaknesses: none so far

Summary: I just bought this fantastic super G wireless router this month, and I like it. The router is very easy to set up and to use. And I haven?t had any problems so far. The speed is amazing. I?d like to recommend it to my friends.

Positive Review

Reviewed by: zshen on 22-Jun-05

Strengths: Easy to use; fast

Weaknesses: none

Summary: I bought this super G router about half a year ago. The router is very easy to set up and use. And I never had any major problems with the router. The 108MBps capability enables fast file transfer between my laptop and desktop PCs.

Negative Review

Reviewed by: ywing on 25-Apr-05

Strengths: thin, sharp, fast(when it works)

Weaknesses: very unstable, keep rebooting

Summary: I regret for purchasing this product. I bought it because the price was attractive at that time and somewhat went for its brand name. However, it kept rebooting so that my network was always disconnected. After one month tried out, I had to change another router and put this one away. Two of my friends have the same experience with it. I guess I will never purchase any NetGear product again.

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