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Dick Smith - NetGear WNDR3700 Gigabit Router (DD-WRT Compatible) $96.27 (Pickup) or +Delivery

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Dick Smith - NetGear WNDR3700 Gigabit Router (DD-WRT Compatible) $96.27 (Pickup) or +Delivery
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Linkwick on 29/04/2015 - 10:51 dicksmith.com.au (278 clicks)
Last edited 29/04/2015 - 10:54

Netgear WNDR3700 N600 Gigabit router. Cheapest it's been for a while, and they're getting harder to find in stock (or more expensive for the few left).
Free click-&-collect, or $9.95 delivery)
Note: stock levels are a bit hit-or-miss for click-&-collect, depending on the state.

Specs: http://www.netgear.com.au/home/products/networking/wifi-rout…

The best part about this router (IMO), however, is it's considered one of the cheaper "best" routers for flashing DD-WRT onto. Don't know which version of WNDR3700 that Dick Smith has in stock though.
For those looking for a way to add a VPN into their router itself (to cover their whole wireless network), if the router doesn't have such facilities in their default firmware DD-WRT is one of the best ways to go to unlock it.

Info on DD-WRT and this router can be found here:
http://www.dd-wrt.com/wiki/index.php/Netgear_WNDR3700

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  • stumo on 29/04/2015 - 11:08
    +1

    Ddwrt says v5 isnt compatible, so youd kinda wanna be sure its not a v5 if u want ddwrt

    • Linkwick on 29/04/2015 - 11:23

      Didn't even KNOW there was a V5 now released. (User manual online dated Jan-2015, so release can't be too old then.) Thanks for spotting that. :-)

      You can check the back of the box on pickup, but that won't help with ordering online.
      Can't imagine DSE would have new stock selling at that price though, but I'll be checking on pickup to make sure it's V1-V4.

  • hpwqust on 29/04/2015 - 11:16
    +3

    MSY sells WNDR3800 for $89, which is way better than this model.

    http://www.msy.com.au/viconline/network-device/13767-netgear…

    • Linkwick on 29/04/2015 - 11:20
      +1

      Different router, different specs, different internals.

      In fact, WNDR3800 has a lower throughput than its predecessor WNDR3700.
      http://www.smallnetbuilder.com/tools/charts/router/view

      If you want that, buy that one. But after looking around & researching a bit, I'd prefer to DD-WRT a 3700 over a 3800. :-)

      Edit: Also, a comparative price for WNDR3700 is $110-$120.

      • dazweeja on 29/04/2015 - 12:14

        Isn't WAN-to-LAN throughput about the least relevant metric? How many home users would be connected to a WAN that could deliver above 150Mbps?

        2.4Ghz and 5Ghz downlink would be more relevant and the 3800 is faster on both of those (by about 50% on the 5Ghz).

        • Linkwick on 29/04/2015 - 12:26

          Looking further into it, you're right about 5GHz. The reviews on there (& elsewhere) say that 3800 has "lower routing speeds than 3700", which I took to be across ALL wifi & LAN. My bad on that.

          I'll be using throughput for wired connection to devices (eg. Apple TV, PC) and have NBN. Will be a 2-router set-up too, so that throughput, divided amongst multiple devices, becomes important - to me anyway. :-)

        • dazweeja on 29/04/2015 - 12:47
          +2

          @Linkwick:

          Fair enough. Archer C5 is not much more (if delivery is needed) and smokes the 3700 on all metrics. DD-WRT support too:

          http://staticice.com.au/cgi-bin/search.cgi?q=archer+c5&spos=…
          ftp://ftp.dd-wrt.com/betas/2015/04-09-2015-r26653/tplink_arc…

          I don't have either router though.

        • Agret on 30/04/2015 - 09:23

          @dazweeja: I have Archer c5 and it's awesome. Running OpenWrt on mine with no issues. Previously had the router in OP also running OpenWrt but was damaged during power failure :(

  • placard on 29/04/2015 - 12:03
    +1

    I have this router already with DD-WRT and it's great!

    Just saw how you'd mentioned about VPN and DD-WRT.

    Can anyone provide a link of where to get help setting this up in DD-WRT and what's a good provider (VPN) to use? Ideally one that covers all wired/wireless client on this router (ie coverage for all devices on the network), and doesn't slow internet speed down too much.

    Cheers

  • jonathonsunshine on 29/04/2015 - 19:16

    I've been using private internet access for a about 6 months now, I played around with a dd-wrt router until I had the thought, if I'm accessing my Gmail and Facebook from the same IP address I'm doing my "other stuff", considering prism etc, matching me up via Facebook and prism and PayPal and the myriad of other things people use the internet foot seems fairly likely.

    So now I run a virtual machine with the private internet access client just for doing my "stuff".

    Thoughts?

    Another consideration is that I have a 100Mbit connection and the best I've ever gotten through the VPN is 30. But if you run the client on two computers, you can get 30 on both.

    • dazweeja on 30/04/2015 - 11:23

      I have a similar setup but in a client/server config on my media server. Virtual machine running Debian with only Deluge server and Tinyproxy (no GUI, only 83MB of RAM used at boot). All traffic from the VM goes through the VPN with firewall rules to prevent leakage. Then put the Deluge client on any computers in the house that want to add downloads from. Super simple and works just like having a normal app - click a magnet link and it adds it to the Deluge server from the browser on a client machine. Second part is the proxy - simplest is to have a browser/profile that is set to use the VM proxy and only use this browser for the "other stuff".

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