Netgear WG302 access point

• Average user rating: 3.0 stars out of 8 reviews
• My rating: 0 stars

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• 2 stars

  Work somewhat, poor support

  by on February 19, 2005

  Pros: Good range, when using very basic features it works fine

  Cons: Kinks in setup. If you do RADIUS auth then don't go near it. The radius works until a reboot. Some config info is not saved. Trying to get Netgear to address this is a waste of time. COST IS TOO HIGH for issues like that

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• 3 stars

  Netgear Wireless rarely works.

  by on January 21, 2005

  Pros: Nice feature set. Good physical design.

  Cons: Netgear Wireless Routers rarely last more than a few months before they just stop working. high failure rate out of the box. They work for a few minutes then simply stop. Connection is okay but nothing else happens. Can't recommend their support service e

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• 9 stars

  Works great for multi user

  by drsam57 on June 5, 2007

  Pros: I have it in hotels no problems ever

  Cons: Needs enclosure for outside use

• 9 stars

  Reliable, Easy to use and configure.

  by Nova5 on November 13, 2006

  Pros: RADIUS Support, Removable antennas, Multi-Wifi network support.

  Cons: Firmware upgrade sometimes goes awry.

  Summary: This device is quite reliable and powerful. I had it up and running in secure mode quite quickly once I got the radius EAP-TLS system working. The hardest part was ...

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  Summary: This device is quite reliable and powerful. I had it up and running in secure mode quite quickly once I got the radius EAP-TLS system working. The hardest part was the RADIUS server itself. I've powered down this device a few times during testing and never once lost any configuration. Been in operation for better than a month with no issues. This AP can also host 4 independent networks and keep the wireless clients seperated for hotspot and buisness use of one AP! Create 2 Networks, make one your backoffice RADIUS secured network, The second can be the hotspot for customers to use. The customers can't access the secure network side so your data is protected, and the hotspot side keeps the client computers all seperated so that your customers can't get to each others data either. The AP also has support for Radius Accounting servers, so you can also set up a Pay For Access connection.
  
  To recover from a bad web interface upgrade of the firmware follow the directions about the Telnet method.
  
  There is more than one way to use the Multi WifiNetwork support feature.. I'll leave that to you to think of..
  
  I recommend this device to anyone needing to set up a wireless network and wants to secure it with RADIUS.
  
  I also Recommend FreeRadius as the server. 1. Its Free
  2. Great user support mailing lists.
  3. Supports a wide variety of Radius Authentication types
  4. It is one if the most widely used servers around.

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• 8 stars

  Buy it for the AutoCell feature!!

  by on November 8, 2004

  Pros: AutoCell- automatically adjusts channels based on interference from neighboring networks- recption and throughput are great

  Cons: Firmware upgrade was tricky

• 8 stars

  Does what it was meant to do.

  by on October 25, 2004

  Pros: Solid performance, easy setup, AutoCell, great signal strength, removable antennas, Power Over Ethernet, WPA-PSK, select either b/g or just g with Turbo G.

  Cons: Price

• 10 stars

  Great AP, Does almost everything

  by on October 6, 2004

  Pros: For the money this is the best AP on the market. Great features, and great reliability. It really is amazing.

  Cons: Costs more than the cheap stuff, but it's reliable and it does everything and has a great developement team behind it at Netgear.

• 5 stars

  Good for home use, but not for office networks!

  by on February 18, 2004

  Pros: Great feature set, good range, and works very well in a simple home network when connected directly to a Netgear firewall/router.

  Cons: In an office environment with multiple switches and gateway routers, this device works for about 10 seconds after a restart and then stops relaying packets. Returned the first device assuming it was faulty, but second device behaved exactly the same. Supp

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