Customer Reviews
Good router 
2008-05-04
Excellent router that has served me without a hitch for 3 years. A G router has now replaced it, but I still use this as a backup and portable router.
DON'T BUY NETGEAR!!!!! 
2008-03-14
If you buy anything from NetGear, you do it at your own risk. Their customer service is non-existant. I bought one a little over a year ago. It never worked right from the begining. They kept blaming my DSL service. Even when I told them I had no problem with the DSL connection when it was connected directly to the computer, they blamed the DSL provider. Now after exchanging emails (The only available customer service)for 4 days, they finally admit that the problem is hardware, but since my unit is now out of warranty there is nothing they are willing to do. Go to their customer support forums and see for yourself all the people who purchased NetGear garbage and now cannot get them to stand by it. I wouldn't take a NetGear product if you paid me to take it.
MR 814 Doesn't Hold Up 
2008-01-10
Bought the MR 814 and within 2 years it's antenna or transmitting capability died. Netgear replaced it with the same model since it was under warranty. 3 years later it's dieing again. Not under warranty. It's used constantly so not sure if it just burns out or what. Used all day long on one iMac and then by additional Mac and Windows PC as well as iTouch.It now transmits intermittently and occassionally will just stop transmitting. Unplugging it seems to help it regain it's transmitting power. Started with Lynksys originally but could not get it to work with Windows PC. That's how I ended up with Netgear. It was pretty much plug and play.
DISAPOINTED 2008-01-05
I BOUGHT A WIRELESS ROUTER FROM AMAZON AND I CAN'T EVEN USE IT. FOR ONE NO SOFTWARE AND TWO I DON'T THINK IT EVEN COMES WITH A MODEM. I TELL YOU I AM VERY DISAPOINTED AND I WILL NEVER BYT ONE HERE AGAIN.
do not order from these people 2007-12-27
after receiving an item that was inoperable, i was forced to pay the shipping costs and received a 20% refund. bad business.
Not for high speed broadband 2007-09-14
The Model MR814 Wireless Router provides continuous, high-speed 11 Mbps access between your wireless and Ethernet devices. Also, the Model MR814 router enables your entire network to share an Internet connection through a cable modem or DSL modem that otherwise is used by a single PC. With minimum setup, you can install and use the router within minutes.The Model MR814 router provides multiple Web content filtering options, plus e-mail browsing activity reporting and instant alerts. Parents and network administrators can establish restricted access policies based on time-of-day, website addresses and address keywords, and share high-speed cable/DSL Internet access for up to 253 personal computers. Network Address Translation (NAT) protects you from hackers.
One of the best purchases I have ever made 2007-02-06
I bought this a long long time ago after having problems with Linksys products. It has worked flawlesly for several years now.
It has traveled across Europe with me. I could go on and on, but the point is that it just works. Every time. Business Travel. New home. New computer. New service provider.
This may be one of the best purchases I have ever made.
Outdated 2007-01-19
My problem with this otherwise good deal was its propensity to lay down when I started opening a lot of connections (e.g. p2p).
It also had a problem with yahoo!mail account. Don't ask me how this is possible. The router should be transparent at that level but I can tell you : with the Netgear there was a problem with connection getting reset to certain yahoo servers and the problem went away with a Linksys and direct connections.
Great price, won't last long 
2007-01-12
It was great for about 1 year, after this time it starts lock-ups. I need to reset it every day, looks like heat related problem
Acceptable for the price paid 2006-08-07
I got this router around 2 years ago (v2 version) and it worked pretty well most of the time. There were occasions when it would just stop working, and it took multiple reboots of the router and cable modem to get things going right again; fortunately this was pretty infrequent. When I moved and changed to another service provider, this router just would not work right. Nothing I tried would fix the slow and almost nonexistant connection it gave me; I ended up replacing it.
