According to a story in Informationweek, Netgear became the latest vendor of WLAN equipment for homes and small offices using Multiple Input-Multiple Output (MIMO) capabilities to increase speed and range. However, Netgear claimed it worked overtime to differentiate its RangeMax equipment from its MIMO competitors.

Specifically, Netgear is the first major vendor to release MIMO equipment based on technology from Video54. Linksys, Belkin and SOHOware are among the vendors that released equipment based on MIMO technology from Airgo. Netgear claims that its equipment provides as much as ten times the coverage and speed of standard 802.11g equipment.