Netgear Dual-Band Router Offers Private Cloud

11:00 PM - August 29, 2011 - By Kevin Parrish - Source : Netgear

This "premium" router will share a USB printer across the network, or share files across the Internet thanks to its private "cloud" capabilities.

Monday Netgear announced the worldwide availability of its N600 Premium Edition (WNDR3800) wireless dual-band Gigabit router. This is the first Netgear home-based router for general consumers that offers the company's Clear Channel Selector tech for automatically and dynamically avoiding busy Wi-Fi channels, and its ReadySHARE Cloud service for easily and securely accessing personal files from anywhere.

"ReadySHARE Cloud transforms a USB hard drive or flash drive plugged into the USB port of the N600 Premium Edition into a private 'cloud' storage system for securely accessing and sharing files within the home network or across the Internet," the company said. "There's no need to go through the lengthy process of selecting a public file-sharing site and then uploading files, and no worries about privacy policies or what happens if the service suddenly goes out of business."

The router specs include a 680 MHz processor, 16 MB of flash memory and 128 MB of RAM. It also features "guest" access, support for the DLNA standard, support for expanded TiVo storage, four gigabit Ethernet ports, dual-band wireless-N for simultaneous speeds of up to 600 Mbps (divided between the 2.4 GHz and 5 GHz bands), automatic Quality-of-Service, automatic Wi-Fi security, and even support for open-source firmware.

What's more, users can plug a printer directly into the router's one USB port and share it across the local network. There's also a dedicated wireless channel specifically for HD video streaming, and parental controls for keeping the Internet experience safe using flexible and customizable filter settings.

"The N600 Premium Edition brings a new level of sophistication to home networks," said Som Pal Choudhury, Netgear director of product marketing. "The unprecedented feature set of this advanced router makes wireless connections more reliable, breaks down the barriers to file-sharing in the cloud and much more – yet it's easy to set up and manage. This is the future of home networking, and it's here today."

Netgear's N600 Premium Edition (WNDR3800) router is now available worldwide from major retailers – in stores and online – at $179.99 in the United States. The ReadySHARE Cloud apps for iOS and Android devices are also available now at $2.99.

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del35 08/30/2011 5:31 AM

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Nice hardware, but it will be likely deemed too complicated by the morons currently being suckered into the likes of the Apple cloud. Only a imbecile pays a company like Apple to store his music and other files, not to mention trusting a nefarious litigiousness parasite as Apple with his personal information.

speakmymind 08/30/2011 5:48 AM

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johnsmithhatesVLC 08/30/2011 6:05 AM

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So FTPs are now called "Private Clouds"?

okibrian 08/30/2011 6:37 AM

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@johnsmithhatesVLC
Yes, and I'm sure someone will tell you that Apple invented that as well. Just wait. It's just like fishing, some dumb ass will always take the hook.

skaz 08/30/2011 6:52 AM

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Accessing readyshare can be done through HTTP and FTP with current gen 3700 model routers.

But I am curious if they added VPN support.

And to top it off they are charging for the app to access the router. Bad move in my opinion.

Anonymous 08/30/2011 7:13 AM

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If this device had PoE it would be "Premium".

roagie 08/30/2011 7:47 AM

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Ummm this is not the same as an airport extreme, that comment was ridiculous.

Private cloud?? yay, are we renaming things now? I thought this was just VPN. Also sharing files on your own network is not "cloud" at all. It's called the cloud because when they drew out networks the point beyond your demarc or the "internet" was drawn as a cloud. Anything on your network cannot be part of the "cloud" because TADAAA it's on your network. I guess I'm just old though and unable to "grasp" the new hip lingo being sold to the sheep...

but since we are naming things, I'm gonna rename apple to Hay, because the sheep eat it up.

festerovic 08/30/2011 8:38 AM

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@roagie -

Spot on, and hilarious too.

fuxxnuts 08/30/2011 12:07 PM

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when will people stop buying poorly supported, poorly implemented netgear products? never...too many sheep flocking towards this cruddy company.

sundragon 08/30/2011 1:25 PM

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fuxxnuts :
when will people stop buying poorly supported, poorly implemented netgear products? never...too many sheep flocking towards this cruddy company.

Thanks... considering all the Apple bashing (you people need to have more sex and stop hating, lol) and this article has nothing to do about an Apple product... My experience with Netgear (personal and client) has been awful! Lack of support and wishy firmware...

K-zon 08/30/2011 3:40 PM

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Should be an interest use of setup given the place of interest that has been covering the ideas of "cloud" services. On other ideas would seem to include more built in functions for the idea also at times but still. Being able to hookup a hard drive and probably have additional access of use through the device against your computer is probably fairly handy.

For hundred and eighty dollars though, what can you expect? But of anything at least for rather expensive or not. Netgear Dual-Band Router Offers Private Cloud within a product release.

sundragon 08/30/2011 4:13 PM

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sundragon :
Thanks... considering all the Apple bashing (you people need to have more sex and stop hating, lol) and this article has nothing to do about an Apple product... My experience with Netgear (personal and client) has been awful! Lack of support and wishy firmware...

So... Tom's is editing forum posts. My entire post was cut short.... I've asked a forum moderator why my post was edited to only include one line...

Anonymous 08/30/2011 5:20 PM

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Probably because NetGear advertises on the site and you didn't have great stuff to say? Yes interesting way to advertise a feature by labeling it "cloud"?. I too am skeptical about NetGear after spending two hours trying to get the router working both wired or wireless and then being told well go get another one , looks like hardware failure and call us back and we'll trouble shoot again.

jblack 08/30/2011 5:33 PM

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This router isn't much different than the WNDR3700 that came before it.

WNDR3700v1 has 8 MB of Flash and 64 MB of RAM
WNDR3700v2 has 16 MB of Flash and 64 MB of RAM
WNDR3800 has 16 MB of Flash and 128 MB of RAM

All of them have the same processor.

Anonymous 08/30/2011 5:35 PM

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680MHz isnt going cut it if your going use this thing as a 'cloud' file server especially considering that it's a USB based interface (which will always add processing overhead)

fuxxnuts 08/30/2011 5:48 PM

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I own

For residential use: I used to use a WGM124 pre-n router. Until, I found out after 5 minutes of using it the NAT table filled up and the router locked up. Calls to netgear, useless. Went to their forums, and found a forum post with someone having the same issue. We did R&D for netgear, pointed out what the issue was, only to have them delete the entire thread, since it reflected badly on them. Also, they discontinued the product weeks later after initial launch, leaving us all in the DARK and SOL.

For corporate use, I have a whole bunch of 7352Sv2 switches, which are supposed to be the flagship switch for netgear. Firmware bites, you can brick it very easily, and it's a PITA to configure. They tried to make their CLI interface look like cisco, except without 80% of the functionality.

Stay away...you'll be sorry if you dont.

ojas 08/30/2011 6:35 PM

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This is pretty similar to NAS, wonder why they've started calling it "the cloud".

K-zon :
Should be an interest use of setup given the place of interest that has been covering the ideas of "cloud" services. On other ideas would seem to include more built in functions for the idea also at times but still. Being able to hookup a hard drive and probably have additional access of use through the device against your computer is probably fairly handy. For hundred and eighty dollars though, what can you expect? But of anything at least for rather expensive or not. Netgear Dual-Band Router Offers Private Cloud within a product release.

This is the most human comment i've read from this guy. Though it still didn't make much sense at all...

Anonymous 08/30/2011 8:58 PM

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@ojas

i believe he is actually a top secret Chinese AI algorithm on the verge of sentient thought, the first time i read one of his post my brain threw a general exception fault and locked up

if it judges humanity on the demographics of this website i think eradication would be our next stop.....

user_ace 08/31/2011 12:39 PM

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How is this any better than WebDAV?

eddieroolz 08/31/2011 2:55 AM

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So, basically a NAS and router in one?