Motorola 498417-001-00 Wireless Broadband Router

Average customer rating: 4.5

Great Wireless router. Needs better encryption setup though.
Motorola Wireless Broadband Router is good
Easy to set up.... but problems over time.
easy set up
A PSP's best friend

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Motorola 498417-001-00 Wireless Broadband Router

Manufacturer: Motorola
Product Group: CE
Binding: Electronics
ASIN: B0000DK7AO

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Product Description

Want to network your home or small office? Torn between the flexibility of wireless access and the speed of wired connections? Look no further. Motorola's Wireless Broadband Router, the WR850G, is built with both an 802.11g wireless access point and a 4-port Ethernet router. It's wireless. It's wired. It's the foundation of a truly customized network and it's full of options.Connected users can share files, pictures, peripherals, printers and more with everyone else on the network. Even better, by connecting a broadband modem (cable, DSL or other), they can also share a single high speed Internet connection. That's everyone online, all surfing different sites, all at the same time.

Customer Reviews:

Great Wireless router. Needs better encryption setup though........2007-03-14

Great wireless / wired router. This thing has very good range, signal strength all over house. The construction is high quality.

The web setup program needs some validation though. You can save invalid length WEP keys to the thing & then you have to login via a cable to fix it... This makes it anoying for experienced users, and impossible for new users to setup a secure connection.

Also, some of the newer firmwares are kinda buggy with bittorrent p2p transfers. Not all of them though.

The DMZ feature is nice for my gaming pc.

I like it better than the cheapo netgear ones & given the marginal price increase for this one over a netgear, I'd buy it anyday.

Motorola Wireless Broadband Router is good.......2007-01-09

Motorola Wireless Broadband Router is good. Inexpensive. Easy to install. Instructions are clear. Just works. Is apparently secure (how does on ever know?). Recommended.

Easy to set up.... but problems over time........2006-11-22

The wr850g router seemed like it was a good buy at first. Was easy to set up and had a lot of options for encryption with a nice user interface when changing firmware settings.

However, over time this piece of equipment has proven itself to be highly unreliable. It freezes up a couple of times each day, overnight, and is even more unstable when there are no hard ethernet links to it (in the DSL port, or the 4 ethernet jacks). Over the course of three years it has shown all the symptoms of having electrostatic discharge (ESD) erosion, getting steadily worse until the point where it will freeze up within minutes of resetting, or will not even get to the point of connecting to the wireless devices or DSL modem. The reset algorithim is itself buggy, sometimes neccessitating the manual plugging in of ethernet cables one at a time.

Overall, I would not reccomend this product to a gamer, nor to someone who does financial transactions online. A light internet user will find the experience frustrating, though workable.

easy set up.......2006-11-04

After a horrible experience with Linksys, this router works beautifully. I am not a computer geek in any shape or form but the set up for this went quickly and smoothly. No problems whatsoever.

A PSP's best friend.......2006-02-07

Get this Product you cant go wrong all four of my kids psp's can get on the internet at the same time

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