Review on 🔥 Enhanced Performance Netgear WNDR4500-100PAS N900 Dual Band Gigabit Wireless Router by Robert Rick

Ordered a refurbished unit and received a Charter Telecom router version instead of vanilla Netgear. It's technically an R6300v2, but it has a charter board ID and a blue stripe instead of Netgear's orange stripe. The router works, but the firmware is tied to the latest (old) firmware released by the charter. This board can be flashed with the latest Netgear firmware using the initial ddwrt firmware first and then you can upgrade to the firmware you want. However, due to the Charter Board ID, this is a migration process to any Netgear firmware. Apply ddwrt first, then apply the new Netgear firmware - even after flashing it with the original Netgear firmware. Otherwise it's a decent router. I don't use WiFi, only as a router. It was running Toastman Tomato but was only able to max out at about 245Mbps from my cable provider. I have a 300 Mbps+ connection and with the vanilla Netgear firmware I'm getting around 345 Mbps. The weird thing is that the CPU and RAM usage was minimal so there was no processing issue. So, for now I'm back to the Netgear firmware. The router is actually pretty good for the $45 rebuild price, but gets a few stars for reselling charter parts (especially unannounced).