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Netgear: Screw Roku, Here’s Our Cheap 1080p Streaming Box

You can’t be a gadget company and show your face on the playground without selling some way to make our TVs smart TVs. Whether this is a good thing is a matter of some dispute. But Netgear is throwing down. Netgear’s NeoTV Pro HD box is just another small bland black box—and that’s fine! They…

Television Sam Biddle Jun 7

The Nerdiest Thing I’ve Ever Wanted

Wi-Fi sucks. Well, it sucks if your router is lurking in a subterranean realm of your apartment and your gaming rig is located aboveground with an iron staircase in between the two and you don’t want to run 100 meters of cable or wire the apartment with ethernet because you don’t own the building. Like…

Tech News Matt Buchanan Dec 26

Netgear WNDR4500 Wi-Fi Router Review: Simply the Best

It’s easy to become jaded when you review as much cutting-edge hardware as we do. We try not to be curmudgeons, but we do get grumpy when next-gen hardware fails to make a leap in performance-or worse, when it falls behind the gear it’s intended to supplant. So we’re happy to report that benchmarking Netgear’s…

Tech News Michael Brown - MaximumPC Nov 11

Apple Spats, Micrahoaol Ads, and Other Stories We Didn’t Post

So much news passes before our collective eyes every day that we couldn’t possibly cover it all. Mostly because much of it isn’t worth covering! But here are a some borderline tidbits we passed on, just in case. It’s Like a Theramin on Speed, Which Is Still Kinda Boring Look ma, no hands! Also no…

Tech News Brian Barrett Sep 14

The Ultimate Router Battle

You’ve been getting by with the cheapie router you bought two years ago, so why should you upgrade now? Performance. And features. We asked seven manufacturers to send us the best consumer routers in their stables regardless of price tags. In most cases, that meant a simultaneous dual-band router capable of running 802.11n wireless networks…

Reviews Michael Brown - MaximumPC Oct 28

Netgear Debuts First Powerline Wireless N Extender

Home networking is almost always a bitch. But Netgear’s new (and first of its kind) wireless N and powerline networking combo might simplify the process, adding a high-throughput Wi-Fi bubble, riding along your home wiring, to any free electrical outlet. Netgear says the AV 200 will extend your existing WiFi network—taking the wireless signal in…

Tech News Sam Biddle Aug 31

Netgear’s Universal Wi-Fi Internet Adapter Connects Consoles and TVs Alike

The Netgear Universal Wi-Fi Internet Adapter can connect anything with an ethernet port to your 802.11n network, be it an Xbox 360 or a TV. But so can many other devices on the market. What’s better about this one? Much like the Xbox 360 Wireless N adapter, Netgear’s latest wireless N adapter is tiny, easily…

Tech News Mark Wilson Mar 1

Netgear MBRN3300E 3G Mobile Broadband Router Offers 3G, Ethernet Lan and 802.11n Wireless

Netgear and Ericsson have been tinkering away on a joint project, the fruits of which have weaned today—the MBRN3300E 3G mobile broadband router. It’s essentially a router which uses 3G WAN in addition to 802.11n wireless and four ethernet LAN ports for 270Mbps connectivity, so there’s plenty o’ choice for internet users whether they’re in…

Tech News Kat Hannaford Feb 9

Netgear Push2TV Links Your Laptop to Your TV, Sans Wires (Sorta)

With digital content becoming more prevalent, some of us want to directly link our computers to our TVs quickly and easily. But we don’t all have a dedicated HTPC to make life simple. Enter Netgear’s Push2TV wireless display adapter. Netgear’s solution involves the use of a box which picks up a signal from your laptop…

Television Adrian Covert Jan 8

Netgear’s New Routers Turn 3G and WiMax Into Wireless-N Goodness

Here’s a peek into the not-too-distant future, when you can stop paying the cable companies for both TV and internet: a new router that lets you set up a wireless network that pulls data from a 4G cellular data connection. Netgear’s got two new routers that connect to 3G or 4G: one that also has…

Tech News Adam Frucci Jan 6

Netgear Digital Entertainer Express Streams 1080p Video to Your TV

While we weren’t all that impressed with Netgear’s Digital Entertainer Live, they look to be fixing some of the mistakes their last media extender made, with this one offering full HD video streamed over your network. https://gizmodo.com/hd-media-player-battlemodo-apple-tv-killers-5397986 It’s also enormous, as you can see by the above pic. Furthermore, there’s no mention of DivX/MKV support…

Tech News Adam Frucci Jan 6

HD Media Player Battlemodo: Apple TV Killers

When Apple TV 3.0 came out, we were unimpressed. Readers asked what else they could use to play their many videos. Here are five nice ones for your needs—nearly all cost less, and do more, than ATV. UPDATED https://gizmodo.com/12-things-you-need-to-know-about-apple-tv-3-0-5393023 The goal here is simple: Play all the videos that I have ripped from DVD, downloaded…

Reviews Wilson Rothman Nov 5

Netgear RangeMax WNR3500L Wireless-N Router Packs USB, Linux Punch

If you haven’t upgraded to wireless-N yet, now is a great time. The spec is finally ratified and Netgear is celebrating by dropping the WNR3500L with USB networking and pre-loaded Linux for open source tinkerers. https://gizmodo.com/which-flavor-of-wi-fi-do-you-use-5365180 Indeed, having Linux on the RangeMax right from the start means you can load unofficial firmware on the router…

Tech News Sean Fallon Oct 5

Netgear Stora NAS Shares Your Files…on the Web!

Netgear’s Stora is, on one hand, a typical 2-bay NAS. For $230, you get a 1TB of storage along with an extra bay for expansion for automatic RAID mirroring. But it’s the easy online file sharing that’s special. Instead of making users learn the ins and outs of FTP, Netgear has set up a graphic-driven…

Tech News Mark Wilson Sep 21

Netgear Digital Entertainer Live Streams PC Media to the Television

If you don’t have a home theater PC or a networked console, Netgear’s Digital Entertainer EVA2000 can put all those torrents—along with some Hulu action—onto your TV. Connecting to your TV via HDMI/composite and your router via ethernet, the Digital Entertainer can stream a boatload codecs from your PC or networked storage, load media from…

Tech News Mark Wilson Sep 8

So Long, Stupid Media Streaming Boxes, You Sucked

They were basically obsolete from the beginning: Massive plastic coffins that beamed media from your PC to your TV. That’s it. For $400. And now they’re returning to the abyss, where they belong. https://gizmodo.com/hp-confirms-discontinuation-of-mediasmart-tv-and-connec-5259923 Besides HP killing their Smart TVs and Connect Media receivers, Linksys’s DMA2100 and DMA2100 are listed as “discontinued” at B&H, Niveus…

Gadgets Matt Buchanan May 18

Netgear’s 4-Bay ReadyNAS NVX Plays Nicely with Time Machine

The new Netgear ReadyNAS NVX is a 4-bay NAS geared towards small businesses that is also compatible with the Time Machine on Mac OS X. The new Time Machine compatibility uses Bonjour to so your computer can auto-detect the NAS over LAN, and supports backups from multiple Mac machines. The Time Machine support is a…

Tech News Adrian Covert Apr 6

Netgear Jumps in the Mobile Broadband Game With the WWAN 3G Mobile Broadband Router

The 3G Mobile Broadband Router is Netgear’s first foray into the land of 3G sharing, and shares the connection of any compatible 3G USB dongle. The router looks like any other Netgear device in design, but it has a USB port for the dongle and (presumably) you configure all the settings through the router page.…

Tech News Adrian Covert Jan 7

Netgear ITV2000 Internet TV Player Lets You Watch BBC News Whenever You Feel Like It

Netgear’s ITV2000 Internet TV Player is half the size of the Roku Netflix Player and pulls from 90+ live streams (foreign news!), plus search clips from sites like NBC, ESPN and YouTube. The Skinny: If you don’t already have some device hooked up to your TV that can access these sites, or you want to…

Tech News Adrian Covert Jan 7

Netgear EVA9150 Digital Entertainer Elite Set Top Box Coming Out In February

In case you were curious about the all-powerful EVA9150 media box we’ve posted on previously, know that it’s coming out in February at the previously mentioned price of $400. https://gizmodo.com/netgear-digital-entertainer-elite-htpc-in-a-set-top-bo-5100502 Digital Entertainer Elite (EVA9150) An ideal solution for serious media enthusiasts, NETGEAR’s Digital Entertainer Elite (EVA9150) is the most powerful and flexible digital media player…

Tech News Adrian Covert Jan 7

Netgear: Screw Roku, Here’s Our Cheap 1080p Streaming Box

The Nerdiest Thing I’ve Ever Wanted

Netgear WNDR4500 Wi-Fi Router Review: Simply the Best

Apple Spats, Micrahoaol Ads, and Other Stories We Didn’t Post

The Ultimate Router Battle

Netgear Debuts First Powerline Wireless N Extender

Netgear’s Universal Wi-Fi Internet Adapter Connects Consoles and TVs Alike

Netgear MBRN3300E 3G Mobile Broadband Router Offers 3G, Ethernet Lan and 802.11n Wireless

Netgear Push2TV Links Your Laptop to Your TV, Sans Wires (Sorta)

Netgear’s New Routers Turn 3G and WiMax Into Wireless-N Goodness

Netgear Digital Entertainer Express Streams 1080p Video to Your TV

HD Media Player Battlemodo: Apple TV Killers

Netgear RangeMax WNR3500L Wireless-N Router Packs USB, Linux Punch

Netgear Stora NAS Shares Your Files…on the Web!

Netgear Digital Entertainer Live Streams PC Media to the Television

So Long, Stupid Media Streaming Boxes, You Sucked

Netgear’s 4-Bay ReadyNAS NVX Plays Nicely with Time Machine

Netgear Jumps in the Mobile Broadband Game With the WWAN 3G Mobile Broadband Router

Netgear ITV2000 Internet TV Player Lets You Watch BBC News Whenever You Feel Like It

Netgear EVA9150 Digital Entertainer Elite Set Top Box Coming Out In February

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