I was looking for a wireless solution for my living room. I was in the process of setting up a Netgear WPN824 as my primary router and it did a good job of covering the entire apartment. Wired Ethernet really wasn’t an option for me because I was renting the apartment and didn’t want Ethernet cables running along the baseboard of my rooms. I was then considering putting wireless network cards in each of the units in my entertainment system. All the wireless cards were platform specific and if I ever upgraded any of my equipment I would have to purchase a wireless card in each additional item. Since all the equipment I was looking to connect had a built in Ethernet port as well as any future equipment I looked into a wireless bridge. In my opinion, this was the most cost effective solution to my problem. Since I already had Netgear equipment and I was happy with it I went and purchased the Netgear WGPS606, which has a built in print server and 4 Ethernet ports and the ability to bridge two wireless networks.

I was interested in setting up a new wireless network in my home. I run a couple of servers out of my home, which run this site as well as a few others. I have tried products by Linksys, D-Link, and Netgear and for the most part networking products for the home have much improved in ease of use as well as performance. Technology has come a long way and setting up a wireless network in your home has become very reasonably priced. With better security and speed there is almost no reason not to use a wireless network over a wired. This statement can be argued of course and I can see an argument for both sides, but for most people a wireless network is sufficient for ones needs. I’ve been pretty happy with Netgear’s products and I was looking for an Ethernet wireless bridge and a main wireless base station. I use the Netgear WGPS606 for my living room to connect my Mac Mini, cable box, and hopefully a game system in the near future. For my main base station I chose the Netgear WPN824 RangeMax Wireless Router. This router has suited my needs very well.