Review on NETGEAR Centria Gigabit Wireless WNDR4700 by Gregory Shin

I am very disappointed with this router. It's noisy and has an odd form factor (sits very tall and wide with some slant, with buttons/switches/ports in odd places), making it a "bad neighbor" with other components on our networking shelf. It's sluggish - *sometimes* we get great performance, *sometimes* we get <10% of normal download speeds, *sometimes* devices don't see/connect at all, while others connect just fine. Requires frequent restarts (spikes) - weekly, for example. The signal is incredibly weak - we're lucky to be able to connect from the next room; whereas our old Linksys workhorse allowed the signal to travel throughout the house. On another floor? Forget it. Right now I can *see* it from my seat and still don't have a full signal. The storage added is a bit misleading - it's NOT cloud/NAS storage, it's more like backup etc. Netgear's utilities for this are not very intuitive. On the positive side, the WPS function works very well - my printer was recognized and connected very easily, which never happens with a printer. :-) But now most routers have it; It's not enough to give this shit a higher rating.