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Great choice for a remote access point

Reviewed in the United States on March 5, 2015

I actually bought this router specifically for use as an access point. We had poor wireless access for streaming video in a remote part of the house. I was able to locate this unit under the floor in the basement without having to drill holes or fish cable through the walls. It was in place and the cable run back to my existing router in under 20 minutes. It has a preset configuration which quickly makes all the settings for access point operation (IP address = 192.168.1.102, DHCP off, etc). And the 5dB high gain antennas on this little box provide a "5-bar", rock-solid signal through the flooring with absolutely no glitches or drop-outs. The efficient 5v, 1A switching power supply, plus its other green features, cuts power usage for this always-on box. My "Kill-a-Watt" meter shows it draws 2.3 watts when in use, and less than 0.8 watts idle.

I've had great luck with XyXEL equipment in the past, and this router was no exception. It's not the newest design, but it's a bargain and the 802.11n connection is plenty fast for streaming video.

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Stookey Slaughter

Bad purchase

Reviewed in the United States on September 24, 2022

Not worth buying.

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Stookey Slaughter

Bad purchase

Reviewed in the United States on September 24, 2022

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Not worth buying.

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Colorado Mike

Great choice for a remote access point

Reviewed in the United States on March 5, 2015

Reviewed in the United States on May 17, 2013

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I ordered 2. One is fine, the other stops responding to all requests about once every 24 hours requiring a reboot.

Configuration was easy when connected to the router using cat5. Configuration was not worth trying over wifi. Over wifi every configuration change that was saved resulted in the wifi connection hanging until the unit was rebooted.

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DRS

It's working okay.

Reviewed in the United States on January 25, 2013

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I recently bought this since its one of the suggested options by comcast but every night when i come home my wifi doesnt work for some time and when i hook the wired connection it star getting working. Weird.
Not sure if its a defect in the equipment or its a defective piece.

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Maryann Penner

Can't be beat for the price

Reviewed in the United States on October 10, 2013

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I originally bought 3 of these to use as WiFi extenders/repeaters because at this price point they were considerably less expensive than the dedicated units available. After receiving them I set one up and it worked well out of the box once configured for my home wireless network.

As I added a few more wireless IP cameras to our home security system the constant streaming if 6 video feeds began to bog down our wireless network so I decided to use one of the NBG418's to give them their own network. This has also worked well. The one glitch I did run into was that on the shipping firmware the thing would occasionally spontaneously reboot. This was more of an annoyance than a real issue as once it finished cycling all would once again be working as it should. I gave tech support a call anyway and they suggested updating to the most recent firmware. Problem solved.

So far, working full time streaming 6 video streams to a camera viewer/server, this router is preforming flawlessly. Better, in fact, then the Actiontec router supplied by Verizon.

I now have the other two original units flashed with the updated firmware and running as repeaters on the 2 wireless networks and they are also working well in that role. I just ordered 2 more. One to use as a repeater for the garage/backyard and the other to have on hand as a spare should any of the other go belly up.

I read some of the other reviews here about Comcast customers having issues with maintaining a connection. I have to wonder if this is not more of an issue with Comcast then with the router as I have Verizon FiOS here and the connection has been rock solid.

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Marcus Roy

Not n-300 quality

Reviewed in the United States on September 11, 2012

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router unable to stream hd video. and coverage are bad as an wireless G router. I have another router (2 2dvi antena). But this one has 2 5dvi antena. i dont see any differnce>

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strong signal, just plugged it in, 6 weeks and still trouble free

Reviewed in the United States on November 23, 2013

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This replaced the WaveSpot... this is much better. Did not test it for real distance, but the short distance within the building (or house) the signal strength is nice and strong, solid and that was what i was looking for. The box advertises high speed and security, but I just plugged it in and started using it. :-) it's been 6 weeks and so far 100% trouble free.

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Adam W

ZyXel NBG-418n NOT RECOMMENDED

Reviewed in the United States on January 18, 2016

First, let me say that I work as an IT consultant and have a lot of experience with routers. The ZyXel NBG418n looks like a nice product because of its built-in modes (router, access point, repeater) at a low price. However, my unit has a flaw: Wi-Fi clients (laptops, smartphones, etc) cannot communicate with each other (ping, share files, etc). In other words, my laptop can connect to the Internet but it can't connect to another laptop that is on the same SSID. The problem is caused by an advanced wireless setting called Intra-BSS Traffic. It is normally enabled to allow Wi-Fi clients to communicate but in my unit, Intra-BSS Traffic appears to be disabled. You can set it to Enabled but it functions as Disabled. ZyXel Tech Support agrees with my assessment but they can't do anything because the router is out of warranty. Their solution is to "junk it" and get another router. I will do so but I won't be buying or recommending ZyXel.

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M. HAYCRAFT

Pretty good router. Was slightly annoyed with setup.

Reviewed in the United States on January 24, 2013

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GOOD:
Clearly listed operation mode, standard config save/restore.

Anoying:
Switching operation mode (access point/client etc..) it would revert it's IP address to a 192.168.1.X.
If such a mode was 'client' or other mode where it defaultls the dhcp server off, it meant you had to MANUALLY configure your PC to connect to it until you corrected the IP address. I wish it would have at least used the same first 3 octets as given already before switch. Was flaky when it had an invalid IP address but acted in client mode.

Bad:
Would be nice if configuration web access was HTTPS rather than plain HTTP

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Fix it Charlie

Works great as an access point.

Reviewed in the United States on April 13, 2014

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Used to upgrade an access point for faster speeds. Works flawlessly as an AP but I can't vouch for it's behavior as a router. Configuring took a few mins and I was done. No need to reset the unit or cycle power as other have mentioned. I deducted 1 star because of the false marketing advertising 300 mbps speeds. I am clocking speeds averaging around 54mbps........which is what should be expected from most similar products. Do research online and you will soon realize the hardware requirements on both ends in order to achieve speeds of over 100 mbps.

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