Closing thoughts
By
TG Publishing Team,
published on December 18, 2002
Source: Tom's Guide US | Keywords: netgear, cable
Source: Tom's Guide US | Keywords: netgear, cable
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5. Closing thoughts
The FM114P is a pretty well-rounded little box, and should be a decent seller for NETGEAR due to its routing feature set, built-in parallel-port print server, sturdy "blue-box" package, and ability to accept higher-gain antennas.
And although most users probably won't notice the wide variation in wireless throughput (unless they move a lot of large files to and from wireless clients), I'd feel better if it weren't there!
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