Quick Review and Specs: NETGEAR WNDR3800 Wireless Dual Band Gigabit Router

The NETGEAR N600 Wireless Dual Band Gigabit Router Premium Edition is the new Ultimate Networking Machine. It offers the high performance wireless Internet access needed for demanding applications, such as streaming HD video and multiplayer gaming running a powerful 680 Mhz processor inside. It supports a wide range of new features and applications such as ReadySHARE® Remote, interference avoidance, support of multi-function printers and much more. Dual band technology avoids interference, ensuring top speeds and the greatest range, while Gigabit offers ultra-fast wired connections.

USB Sharing

ReadySHARE® Remote—Access data on an attached USB hard drive while away from home via browser or smartphone app.
ReadySHARE® Printer—Connect a printer to the USB port and access it wirelessly
ReadySHARE® USB—Easy shared access to an external USB storage device
Expanded TiVo® Storage—Connect any USB HDD for extra storage capacity for a TiVo
Apple Time Machine® Compatible—Mac compatible and stores back-up data to attached USB hard drives
DLNA—Play videos, photos and music stored on an attached USB HDD to any DNLA connected TV, game console or media player

Best Connections

Clear Channel Selector—Dynamically avoids busy Wi-Fi channels for clear and fast wireless connections automatically
Simultaneous Dual band—Ensuring top speeds and the greatest range while minimizing interference
Fast Wireless Speeds—Provides up to 300 Mbps† wireless speed for streaming HD videos, simultaneous downloads, and online gaming
Ultra-fast wired—Four Gigabit Ethernet ports deliver ultra-fast wired connections
Automatic Quality-of-Service (QoS)—Keeps Internet videos streaming by recognizing video streaming and gives them priority bandwidth
Fine-tuned antennas—Provides best wireless range

Security

Live Parental Control—Keeps your Internet experience safe using flexible and customizable filter settings
Guest Network—Separate and secure Internet access for guests
Business Class Wi-Fi Security and Firewall—High-level wireless security for the home

Ease-of-Use

NETGEAR Genie™—Easy dashboard control to manage, monitor, and repair home networks
Easy installation—Simple browser-based setup for iPads®, smartphones and computers. No CD required.

WNDR3800 Specifications

Advanced Features

Clear Channel Selector—Dynamically avoids busy Wi-Fi channels for clear and fast wireless connections automatically
ReadySHARE® USB Storage Access—supports FAT16/32, NTFS Read/Write, Ext 2 Read/Write, Ext 3 Read/Write
ReadySHARE® Remote—Access data on an attached USB hard drive
ReadySHARE® Printer—Connect a printer to the USB port and access it wirelessly
Expanded TiVo® Storage—Connect any USB hard drive for extra storage capacity for a TiVo
Apple Time Machine® Compatible—Mac compatible and stores back-up data to attached USB hard drives
Live Parental Controls with flexible and customizable filter settings
Simultaneous Dual Band—2.4 GHz and 5 GHz operation
DLNA—streaming media
Multiple SSID guest networks (separate security and access restrictions)
Broadband usage meter measures Internet usage
Power and Wi-Fi on/off buttons

Package Contents

N600 Wireless Dual Band Gigabit Router—Premium Edition (WNDR3800)
Stand
Ethernet cable
Power adapter, localized to country of sale

Warranty

Localized to country of sale

System Requirements

Broadband (cable, DSL) Internet service and modem with Ethernet connection
2.4 or 5.0 GHz 802.11a/b/g/n specification wireless adapter or an Ethernet adapter and cable for each computer
Microsoft® Windows 7, Vista®, XP®, 2000, Mac OS®, UNIX®, or Linux®
Microsoft® Internet Explorer® 5.0, Firefox® 2.0 or Safari 1.4 or higher
Use with an N600 Wireless Dual Band USB Adapter (WNDA3100) for maximum performance

Standards

IEEE® 802.11 b/g/n 2.4 GHz
IEEE 802.11 a/n 5.0 GHz
Five (5) (1 WAN and 4 LAN) Gigabit Ethernet ports with auto-sensing technology
IPv6 Support (Internet Protocol Version 6)

Performance

680 MHz powerful MIPS 32-bit processor
Memory: 16 MB flash and 64 MB RAM
Five (5) (1 WAN, 4 LAN) Gigabit Ethernet ports
Advanced Quality of Service (QoS)
Supports Wireless Multimedia (WMM) based QoS

Security

Business Class Wi-Fi Security and Firewall—Highlevel wireless security for the home
Wi-Fi Protected Access® (WPA/WPA2—PSK) and WEP
Double firewall protection (SPI and NAT firewall)
Denial-of-service (DoS) attack prevention

Ease of Use