NETGEAR N600 Wireless Dual Band Gigabit Router WNDR3700 for $70
This is the NETGEAR N600 Dual Band Gigabit Wireless Router WNDR3700. The NETGEAR N600 Wireless Dual Band Gigabit Router delivers high performance and featuresfor home and business networking. With twice the available bandwidth with Simultaneous Dual Band Wireless-Noperating at a combined speed of up to 600Mbps, Gigabit ports, ReadySHARE USB storage, guest networks,broadband usage meter and more, the router has the power you need and the flexibility you want for your network.
This isn't a big sale off the normal sale prices you can get at amazon or best buy. A discount for sure but not unheard of for local big box with likely a better return policy.
True, walmart carries these in store all day long for 99.99. For 79.99 you can get the router without the gig and without the usb share port.
ewwww Netgear, only worse brand is Belkin
@katanaryda: I got my Netgear (very similar to this model if not the same) as a refurb at least a year ago and it has been awesome. I probably have 15 devices connected at any given time. I never have to restart it or anything. A solid performer. My last router was a Belkin and it wasn't so great.
@katanaryda: I've never had a Belkin device but I've had 2 D-Link that were dead right out of the box. A couple of years later I gave them another try. That router lasted about 45 days then failed.
@cebooher3: @bsmith1: Cisco master race reporting in.
I bought the Netgear N600, it is not reliable, the 5g drops for our ipad mini all the time. It is worth spending the extra bucks for a cisco or linksys. I have come to hate the blue lights. When MS or Apple are running updates I am cold booting the router several times a day.
When I purchased my refurb WNDR3700v1, I immediately took it with me on a week-long vacation. Thanks to DD-WRT, I was able to set up multiple wireless SSIDs and it handled all of the traffic flawlessly.
Since returning from that vacation, this unit has been my primary router for nearly a year now in a wired-only mode. I've had no problems supporting the 15+ devices I have. I let secondary devices serve as wireless access points. This unit just isn't ideally located for handling wireless traffic, so I just turn that functionality off. I'd gladly pick up a second unit (say, for $50 or so), to run as a bridge and wireless access point (but only with DD-WRT).

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