"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enhi there this is Ranjit from tech Tabasco and today I have the review of this neck a dual band simultaneous dual band router the model name is wmdr 3700 as this is one of the high-end routers from head gear you can expect all the goodies like simultaneous tube and gigabit ethernet ports it has a USB port at the back and it also has a feature of guest networks and I am using this router now for more than two weeks so let's get into the details of this router so this is the Netgear router I have attached the stand and you can place it vertical like this or you can remove the stand and place it in a horizontal position I have tested this router only in the vertical position and the first thing that strikes me about this router is how big is this often it's a huge router I have some other routers for comparison this is a Belkin end router this is also a fairly large router and we have the AUSA's and 56 you this is again a dual band router and as I will just place it over here and you can see how big is this make a router so now let me just do a close up these are some of the lips this is the on/off and we have the 2.4 gigahertz and the 5 five gigahertz Wi-Fi indicator at the 2.4 gigahertz lights up in green and whenever there is wife activity blanks and the 5 gigahertz lights up in blue color then we have one more leg that's not lighted up right now for the USB next for Internet activity if you're connected to the Internet it shows our screen and wherever there is Internet activity blinks and one two three four let's for Ethernet we have these two physical buttons and with this button the first button that's for Wi-Fi you can switch on the Wi-Fi on or off with us sadly but if you switch it off both the banns 2.4 gigahertz and the 5 gigahertz both of them get shut off and next button is for the WPS Wi-Fi setup I'm going towards the back we have a physical on/off switch this is for the power adapter and we have four Ethernet ports all of them are gigabit ports and one man port this is also again a gigabit port and we have one USB 2 port you can attach hard drives to this so that's it at the back and it's nicely marked all the ports and everything are nicely marked on the front it's glossy plastic so in the looks department the router looks really good and this is the 360 degrees overview of the router now let's get to some of the technical specifications for the router this is a real powerful router and the processor and this is 680 megahertz and the Wi-Fi planet supports is two point four and five regards simultaneous dual band and this router has eight internal antennas so there is no provision for adding any external antennas and the RAM for this router the 64 MB and the flash memory inside it is a 10 B the most important thing to test with the Wi-Fi router is the Wi-Fi range and the throughput that it offers and this router I had to do two tests that is one on the 2.4 gigahertz back and the second on the 5 gigahertz band to make the test consistent I will be using this procedure for all my router stretch for the 2.4 gigahertz and the 130 Mbps speed I will be using the MacBook Air and even for the 5 gigahertz one and 30 Mbps and 300 Mbps test I will be using the MacBook Air unfortunately the MacBook Air doesn't support the 300 Mbps at 2.4 gigahertz so what I did is I purchased this USB Wi-Fi dongle and it's from Netgear the model name is n 300 model number is W and a3100 and for the 2.4 gigahertz 300 Mbps test I will be using this dongle on a Windows XP machine all other tests were done on a map OS X lime to further standardize these tests I have divided this apartment where I do all my testing into four zones the first zone is in this room and the Wi-Fi device that's our MacBook Air sits five feet from the router there is no obstruction there is clear line of sight to the router and the next zone that's known as zone B is approximately 23 feet from the router and there is one brick wall between there you have the zone 3 that's 23 feet from the router and we have two vaults in between them some of the routers have a problem reaching the zone C and finally we have the zone D that's about 50 feet from the router and we have to brick walls and one thick wooden road between them for all the Wi-Fi testing the encryption Wi-Fi encryption was set at wpa2 with AES encryption now first I will talk about the 2.4 gigahertz band as expected the router performed great with the zone a B and C there was no I was getting full signal at the zone en zone B which I normally get with almost all of the routers and generally with the C zone some of the routers I see a dropout and with this Netgear router in the zone 3 I was getting full bars and at but occasionally it was dropping at about from fine bars to 4 bars but I did not have any problems while browsing the net or streaming videos I stream videos up to 720p from YouTube and they were performing brilliantly no issues over there and particularly moving towards the zone D which is a big problem with all the routers I test there was a serious drop in the throughput but you can do general browsing over there but streaming high-definition videos is a problem in that zone this is not a problem with the snake caper out there all routers at the zone D performs really another thing I want to talk about this router is that and Zone B where I do all my media testing where of the ps3 and the WD TV is there i stream my media from my Nass that's connected to the router and stream it wirelessly to this media devices like WD TV and ps3 I did not have any problems with normal media and normal videos but I had a problem with some videos that were encoded at thousand ADP and 720p these videos are specifically encoded at a very high bitrate and they require constant bit rate of about 25 to 26 Mbps and at times this router was struggling to provide a clean throughput the problem was that it was able to stream content at about 2029 Mbps but for a few seconds the throughput was dropping to about 5 or 8 Mbps and that was causing some lag overall I would rate the Wi-Fi throughput at 2.4 gigahertz above average but I expected a little bit more from the 2.4 gigahertz span of this Netgear router now moving towards the 5 gigahertz Bank do note that the 5 gigahertz band Wi-Fi range is not as good as the 2.4 gigahertz this is not a problem with this Netgear router but this is universal for every 5 gigahertz router and generally testing the 5 gigahertz range I get the range only in the zone a B and C and even with this out it was the same case and this router performs brilliantly in the zone a B and C I was consistently getting much more throughput and I was able to transfer even large files pretty fast on the 5 gigahertz for your comparison just look at this chart where I show you the actual Wi-Fi throughput achieved by this router the first thing is on the first row that is the 2.4 gigahertz band at 130 Mbps and as you can see in zone II I was getting 42.8 Mbps and zone B 27.9 and zone C 13.9 and finally in zone D it was just 1.6 Mbps moving to the 300 Mbps on the 2.4 gigahertz band as the MacBook Air did not support this for doing this I use the Netgear n300 USB adapter and the results were not that encouraging but the range that I got was somewhat higher moving to the 5 gigahertz pan this test was done on the MacBook Air the results as you can see are impressive on the 300 Mbps and even at the 150 Mbps so if you are into too much of HD streaming and stream a lot of big files or move around a lot of big files on the Wi-Fi network 5 gigahertz band on this router can help you a lot another thing I want to talk about this router is the facility of guest Network you can set up guest network with this router and with this particular router that's the net gate 3700 we we can set not one but two guest networks so one in the 2.4 gigahertz span and the second at the 5 gigahertz band so if you want you can actually run simultaneously for Wi-Fi networks with this router which is exceptional now let's look at the admin interface of this Netgear 3700 router this is basically the wireless setting page and you can set both the networks that's 2.4 gigahertz and 5 bigger from this page we can enable or disable the society broadcast the settings in my opinion are just basic sadly you cannot restrict the 2.5 or the 5 gigahertz to just say n network or a G network by default the B G and n networks are enabled also in the mode they give us three options basically up to 54 Mbps up to 130 Mbps and up to 300 Mbps do notice that the omission of WEP encryption and I feel that it's a good thing that they have omitted WEP encryption and similarly you can set the settings for the 5 gigahertz that works on the a and n band as I have mentioned before this router supports guest Network and these are the settings for the guest network this is basically for the BGN that means the guest network on the 2.4 gigahertz band and we can also set one more guest network on the 5 gigahertz band some of the unique feature is with the guest network is that we can enable the wireless isolation option by default the guest network cannot access our main network but if for some reason if you want the guest to access your local network you can even do that this router also has one USB port at the back and to be frank the features that it offers is a bit limited the one of the basic things that it can do is you can attach a USB pendrive or a portable hard drive to the USB port at the back and hence your entire network can access the files on that storage device so basically you can use it as a mini nass also this router supports media serving capabilities so basically and stream for example if you have movies etc on your thumb drive to DLNA devices like ps3 xbox or media players like WD TV this is a really good feature I tested it this with ps3 and again with my WD TV and it worked perfectly I was able to stream I tried it with a couple of movie clips and I had no problem streaming them regarding the USB port at the back there are two things that I miss that are omitted with this outlet is that this router does not have any built-in download manager or a torrent client so you cannot download a file automatically on this router whenever you PC switched off some of the routers in this range have started providing this functionality with the USB port attached this router supports various file formats such as NTFS fat16 32 ext2 and ext3 but for my testing and to keep it simple i use the USB thumb drive like this and i formatted it out in the fat32 format and for trunk and I transferred some files to see the speed of the transfer wire this thumb drive I was getting a write speed of 5.1 MB per second and a read speed of about 11 point 8 MB per second which to be frank is really good so you can easily attach a portable hard and use it like an ass with this router the throughput on the Gigabit Ethernet port was also good I was getting at report of about 480 Mbps that land to land transfers also the good thing about this noted is that I did not have any problems accessing this drive on a windows-based computer or a Mac I did not need to install any additional software to access this thumb drive or the attached hard drive now what I am going to do is attach this power meter by which we are going to measure the actual power consumption by this round out my power meter is attached and it's actually showing us how many watts of power is consumed in real time right now the router is switched on and the Wi-Fi is switched on for both the 2.4 Tigers and the 5 gigahertz and one computer is connected via ethernet cable and as you can see the power consumption is about five point five two point five point six watts you can even shut off the Wi-Fi and I'm going to do that and in a minute you'll see that the power consumption has gone down if we shut off the Wi-Fi the router consumes just about 4 watts of power so overall this router is pretty efficient and then on an average with Wi-Fi switched on and one Ethernet computer attached it consumes approximately 5.5 watts of power to conclude this review this is a good simultaneous dual band router and it has some unique features like multiple guest networks and it works great on a Mac or PC also the 5 gigahertz band performance was impressive but the 2.4 gigahertz band I expected a little bit more so I would give this router 8 out of 10 if you think this video was helpful I'll appreciate if you click on the like button given below you can also subscribe to my channel by clicking on this link and that there will be notified of my future videos that's it for now this ranjit for tech to bus comm and hopefully I'm going to see you in my next video youhi there this is Ranjit from tech Tabasco and today I have the review of this neck a dual band simultaneous dual band router the model name is wmdr 3700 as this is one of the high-end routers from head gear you can expect all the goodies like simultaneous tube and gigabit ethernet ports it has a USB port at the back and it also has a feature of guest networks and I am using this router now for more than two weeks so let's get into the details of this router so this is the Netgear router I have attached the stand and you can place it vertical like this or you can remove the stand and place it in a horizontal position I have tested this router only in the vertical position and the first thing that strikes me about this router is how big is this often it's a huge router I have some other routers for comparison this is a Belkin end router this is also a fairly large router and we have the AUSA's and 56 you this is again a dual band router and as I will just place it over here and you can see how big is this make a router so now let me just do a close up these are some of the lips this is the on/off and we have the 2.4 gigahertz and the 5 five gigahertz Wi-Fi indicator at the 2.4 gigahertz lights up in green and whenever there is wife activity blanks and the 5 gigahertz lights up in blue color then we have one more leg that's not lighted up right now for the USB next for Internet activity if you're connected to the Internet it shows our screen and wherever there is Internet activity blinks and one two three four let's for Ethernet we have these two physical buttons and with this button the first button that's for Wi-Fi you can switch on the Wi-Fi on or off with us sadly but if you switch it off both the banns 2.4 gigahertz and the 5 gigahertz both of them get shut off and next button is for the WPS Wi-Fi setup I'm going towards the back we have a physical on/off switch this is for the power adapter and we have four Ethernet ports all of them are gigabit ports and one man port this is also again a gigabit port and we have one USB 2 port you can attach hard drives to this so that's it at the back and it's nicely marked all the ports and everything are nicely marked on the front it's glossy plastic so in the looks department the router looks really good and this is the 360 degrees overview of the router now let's get to some of the technical specifications for the router this is a real powerful router and the processor and this is 680 megahertz and the Wi-Fi planet supports is two point four and five regards simultaneous dual band and this router has eight internal antennas so there is no provision for adding any external antennas and the RAM for this router the 64 MB and the flash memory inside it is a 10 B the most important thing to test with the Wi-Fi router is the Wi-Fi range and the throughput that it offers and this router I had to do two tests that is one on the 2.4 gigahertz back and the second on the 5 gigahertz band to make the test consistent I will be using this procedure for all my router stretch for the 2.4 gigahertz and the 130 Mbps speed I will be using the MacBook Air and even for the 5 gigahertz one and 30 Mbps and 300 Mbps test I will be using the MacBook Air unfortunately the MacBook Air doesn't support the 300 Mbps at 2.4 gigahertz so what I did is I purchased this USB Wi-Fi dongle and it's from Netgear the model name is n 300 model number is W and a3100 and for the 2.4 gigahertz 300 Mbps test I will be using this dongle on a Windows XP machine all other tests were done on a map OS X lime to further standardize these tests I have divided this apartment where I do all my testing into four zones the first zone is in this room and the Wi-Fi device that's our MacBook Air sits five feet from the router there is no obstruction there is clear line of sight to the router and the next zone that's known as zone B is approximately 23 feet from the router and there is one brick wall between there you have the zone 3 that's 23 feet from the router and we have two vaults in between them some of the routers have a problem reaching the zone C and finally we have the zone D that's about 50 feet from the router and we have to brick walls and one thick wooden road between them for all the Wi-Fi testing the encryption Wi-Fi encryption was set at wpa2 with AES encryption now first I will talk about the 2.4 gigahertz band as expected the router performed great with the zone a B and C there was no I was getting full signal at the zone en zone B which I normally get with almost all of the routers and generally with the C zone some of the routers I see a dropout and with this Netgear router in the zone 3 I was getting full bars and at but occasionally it was dropping at about from fine bars to 4 bars but I did not have any problems while browsing the net or streaming videos I stream videos up to 720p from YouTube and they were performing brilliantly no issues over there and particularly moving towards the zone D which is a big problem with all the routers I test there was a serious drop in the throughput but you can do general browsing over there but streaming high-definition videos is a problem in that zone this is not a problem with the snake caper out there all routers at the zone D performs really another thing I want to talk about this router is that and Zone B where I do all my media testing where of the ps3 and the WD TV is there i stream my media from my Nass that's connected to the router and stream it wirelessly to this media devices like WD TV and ps3 I did not have any problems with normal media and normal videos but I had a problem with some videos that were encoded at thousand ADP and 720p these videos are specifically encoded at a very high bitrate and they require constant bit rate of about 25 to 26 Mbps and at times this router was struggling to provide a clean throughput the problem was that it was able to stream content at about 2029 Mbps but for a few seconds the throughput was dropping to about 5 or 8 Mbps and that was causing some lag overall I would rate the Wi-Fi throughput at 2.4 gigahertz above average but I expected a little bit more from the 2.4 gigahertz span of this Netgear router now moving towards the 5 gigahertz Bank do note that the 5 gigahertz band Wi-Fi range is not as good as the 2.4 gigahertz this is not a problem with this Netgear router but this is universal for every 5 gigahertz router and generally testing the 5 gigahertz range I get the range only in the zone a B and C and even with this out it was the same case and this router performs brilliantly in the zone a B and C I was consistently getting much more throughput and I was able to transfer even large files pretty fast on the 5 gigahertz for your comparison just look at this chart where I show you the actual Wi-Fi throughput achieved by this router the first thing is on the first row that is the 2.4 gigahertz band at 130 Mbps and as you can see in zone II I was getting 42.8 Mbps and zone B 27.9 and zone C 13.9 and finally in zone D it was just 1.6 Mbps moving to the 300 Mbps on the 2.4 gigahertz band as the MacBook Air did not support this for doing this I use the Netgear n300 USB adapter and the results were not that encouraging but the range that I got was somewhat higher moving to the 5 gigahertz pan this test was done on the MacBook Air the results as you can see are impressive on the 300 Mbps and even at the 150 Mbps so if you are into too much of HD streaming and stream a lot of big files or move around a lot of big files on the Wi-Fi network 5 gigahertz band on this router can help you a lot another thing I want to talk about this router is the facility of guest Network you can set up guest network with this router and with this particular router that's the net gate 3700 we we can set not one but two guest networks so one in the 2.4 gigahertz span and the second at the 5 gigahertz band so if you want you can actually run simultaneously for Wi-Fi networks with this router which is exceptional now let's look at the admin interface of this Netgear 3700 router this is basically the wireless setting page and you can set both the networks that's 2.4 gigahertz and 5 bigger from this page we can enable or disable the society broadcast the settings in my opinion are just basic sadly you cannot restrict the 2.5 or the 5 gigahertz to just say n network or a G network by default the B G and n networks are enabled also in the mode they give us three options basically up to 54 Mbps up to 130 Mbps and up to 300 Mbps do notice that the omission of WEP encryption and I feel that it's a good thing that they have omitted WEP encryption and similarly you can set the settings for the 5 gigahertz that works on the a and n band as I have mentioned before this router supports guest Network and these are the settings for the guest network this is basically for the BGN that means the guest network on the 2.4 gigahertz band and we can also set one more guest network on the 5 gigahertz band some of the unique feature is with the guest network is that we can enable the wireless isolation option by default the guest network cannot access our main network but if for some reason if you want the guest to access your local network you can even do that this router also has one USB port at the back and to be frank the features that it offers is a bit limited the one of the basic things that it can do is you can attach a USB pendrive or a portable hard drive to the USB port at the back and hence your entire network can access the files on that storage device so basically you can use it as a mini nass also this router supports media serving capabilities so basically and stream for example if you have movies etc on your thumb drive to DLNA devices like ps3 xbox or media players like WD TV this is a really good feature I tested it this with ps3 and again with my WD TV and it worked perfectly I was able to stream I tried it with a couple of movie clips and I had no problem streaming them regarding the USB port at the back there are two things that I miss that are omitted with this outlet is that this router does not have any built-in download manager or a torrent client so you cannot download a file automatically on this router whenever you PC switched off some of the routers in this range have started providing this functionality with the USB port attached this router supports various file formats such as NTFS fat16 32 ext2 and ext3 but for my testing and to keep it simple i use the USB thumb drive like this and i formatted it out in the fat32 format and for trunk and I transferred some files to see the speed of the transfer wire this thumb drive I was getting a write speed of 5.1 MB per second and a read speed of about 11 point 8 MB per second which to be frank is really good so you can easily attach a portable hard and use it like an ass with this router the throughput on the Gigabit Ethernet port was also good I was getting at report of about 480 Mbps that land to land transfers also the good thing about this noted is that I did not have any problems accessing this drive on a windows-based computer or a Mac I did not need to install any additional software to access this thumb drive or the attached hard drive now what I am going to do is attach this power meter by which we are going to measure the actual power consumption by this round out my power meter is attached and it's actually showing us how many watts of power is consumed in real time right now the router is switched on and the Wi-Fi is switched on for both the 2.4 Tigers and the 5 gigahertz and one computer is connected via ethernet cable and as you can see the power consumption is about five point five two point five point six watts you can even shut off the Wi-Fi and I'm going to do that and in a minute you'll see that the power consumption has gone down if we shut off the Wi-Fi the router consumes just about 4 watts of power so overall this router is pretty efficient and then on an average with Wi-Fi switched on and one Ethernet computer attached it consumes approximately 5.5 watts of power to conclude this review this is a good simultaneous dual band router and it has some unique features like multiple guest networks and it works great on a Mac or PC also the 5 gigahertz band performance was impressive but the 2.4 gigahertz band I expected a little bit more so I would give this router 8 out of 10 if you think this video was helpful I'll appreciate if you click on the like button given below you can also subscribe to my channel by clicking on this link and that there will be notified of my future videos that's it for now this ranjit for tech to bus comm and hopefully I'm going to see you in my next video you\n"