lisiorPremium
join:2011-11-04
Calgary, AB | WNDR4500 or WNDR3700? Trying to determine which one of these two routers would be better for me. Want to stream content to my PS3, share a printer experience decent wireless speeds on said PS3 while gaming or downloading, etc. One desktop wired one wireless and wireless laptop. Other devices are a possibility. Thanks..
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 mozerdLight Will Pierce The DarknessPremium,MVM
join:2004-04-23
Nepean, ON
3 edits | I suggest that you go with the WNDR4500 ...
To take full advantage of the WNDR4500 you will need to use the N900 Wireless Dual Band USB Adapter WNDA4100 with your Desktop and Laptop
Your Printer will work just fine and your PS3 will also work OK but they will not be able to fully take advantage of the performance capability of the WNDR4500. |
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lisiorPremium
join:2011-11-04
Calgary, AB | Thanks for getting back to me - I ended up getting WNDR4500 even though I haven't seen your note. Am happy in that my homegroup works and I can finally share my printer. That Cisco DPC3825 router/modem combo that Shaw provided with their Broadband 50 cable is a piece of crap, so I asked them to place it in bridge mode and am using it as a modem only. Netgear works well so far, but you're right, both the laptop and the other desktop that I tried wirelessly are obviously using only the 2.4GHz range... otherwise they'd be picking up different SSID. Next step is to test the speeds on PS3 and hope to stream stuff to the PS3 instead of copying files onto its HDD lol
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lisiorPremium
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Calgary, AB | reply to mozerd
Am curious whether I could use this adapter for my Samsung HD TV?
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mozerdLight Will Pierce The DarknessPremium,MVM
join:2004-04-23
Nepean, ON | said by lisior:Am curious whether I could use this adapter for my Samsung HD TV? No, the adapter only works on Desktop and Laptop computers.
IF you have a 'smart' Samsung TV -- released just recently -- they have built-in wired/wireless networking capability. |
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lisiorPremium
join:2011-11-04
Calgary, AB | Got the TV Dec 2010 and it has wired connection but lacks a wireless one.
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mozerdLight Will Pierce The DarknessPremium,MVM
join:2004-04-23
Nepean, ON
1 edit | Get yourself a Netgear XAVB5001 Powerline kit and you can connect your Samsung TV To your Netgear WNDR4500 router -- then you will be ble to do a whole host of stuff 
You can buy this KIT from Amazon Canada for $132 |
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 not quite rightI'm not cool enough to be a Mac person
join:2001-06-23
Puyallup, WA
kudos:1 | reply to lisior
I just got the WNDR4500 a couple days ago luv'n it so far ...
I might add that was not the case with the WNDR3800, that was nothing but trouble and went back the next day. (I really should have listen to all of the complaints about that router)
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| I have a 3700. I replaced my 4500 with it as the 4500 kept slowing down. I have a 50meg pipe and it would go stupid and down to 3 megs until re-booted. The 3700 has 4 servers, 2 ipad2's, 3 laptops, 9 cameras, and a wireless IP PTZ running thru it with no issues. I guess I got lucky it beats anything I have had all the way back to my WRT54G's with DDWRT! |
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| Get the ASUS RT-N66U, it is almost identical to the wndr4500, from same chipset ref. design, but had double the RAM, but less flash memory, but adds a microSD slow.. has 2 usb ports, there's a good review on smallnetbuilder... Rock solid stock firmware... is the biggest difference.. it's based on tomato firmware. |
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not quite rightI'm not cool enough to be a Mac person
join:2001-06-23
Puyallup, WA
kudos:1 | Good luck finding the ASUS RT-N66U because the initial batches "Rock solid stock firmware" were bricks that couldn't access the internet. If you actually look at the charts on smallnetbuilder the RT-N66U if you can get it running really doesn't out perform the WNDR4500 or it's predecessor the RT-N56U at all.
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