simple setup, reliability questionable
348752
eeeehhhhhh They are ok. Wouldn't recommend for home security on the outside of the house. The WiFi, placement, and sensitivity adjustment has to be just right for these to function correctly. Have moved mine at least 10 or so times to avoid random triggers. Video quality is good but only if the screen does not glitch. I have excellent internet service as well as a router/modem to match and can't seem to get one of the cameras to grab a solid connection well within it's range. As for me, inside these would be great, but outdoors I think I will get in the attic and run wires for a more traditional setup.
2751225
Quick ship, seems to work O K ...New unit, might last, might not,
4120829
This kept rebooting every 20-30 minutes.  I had Spectrum at the house 3 times within a week.  Finally, I connected their equipment with no issues.  They told me this equipment is faulty.
45241
I have used it for a couple of months now and it has worked fine up to now. Getting it setup for the first time is not hard at all. Just install the necessary program and follow the directions.
2337427
Well, the wall adapter literally began to melt.  I'm seeing how Netgear's CS resolves it before assigning a final score, but it's not an ideal situation.  In the few minutes it worked, it was easy to set up and worked well.  Startup/reboot was slower than I expected given the processor.
1556092
Never did succeed with "Quick Setup", on either of 2 networks.  Either won't connect to the uplink, or won't do DHCP to clients - or maybe both, the setup UI doesn't tell you much except "fail".  Apparently no option to change the SSID or set a password; you can enter a name but it isn't used.  Tried configuring manually in "Settings" and that's just a trip down the rabbit hole.  I've wasted too much time on this, it's now officially e-waste.
1540805
I have purchase 4 of these units.  3 or the 4 have failed after being in service for relatively short times.  On the plus side, they are easy to set up and when they work they work.  2 of the 3 failures resulted in the device being turned "on" when it was supposed to be off.  In all fairness, I am in an area where lightning is a factor, however I also use a competing product in the same building and have zero failures.  I can not recommend this product due to unreliable operation.  It does, however appear to meet published specifications.
1297948
The unit seems to require daily power cycle to keep it happy and functioning.  That's not very dependable.

Even when it does work,  there is quite a bit of latency, and much reduced bandwidth.
2658369
Setup was easy and product looks nice.

However, as other folks here have reported it frequently drops connection and takes a few moments to reconnect. It's happens so frequently that while it does technically extend the range of my network I can't stream, transfer large files or even effectively surf the web as I'll often have to wait for this unit to reconnect.

I noticed that other people here that have mentioned this same problem got a comment back on their review from Netgear saying to email them at amazon@netgear.com. I thought that was a sign of impressive customer service so before posting my review, I sent an email to that address. However, I got an immediate bounce back message from their mail server. I was willing to hold onto this item and try to troubleshoot with their help until that. At this point, it's not worth the effort.

I will be returning this item as faulty ASAP.

Also, just for the sake of you the reader, I'm an IT professional with multiple networking related certifications so it is definitely not user error.
4348007
Great price, simple setup, but incredibly spotty function. Some days they just don't work. Weird. But they're mostly good, and seem to be holding up.
4158872
StarTech's USB over IP Device Server has been great for some devices and questionable on others.  Setup was fairly easy and I found that it worked with just about every device I threw at it, at first.  It seemed to work really well with external hard drives.  It worked well with scanners and printers, too.  But with time (sleep mode, etc) I found that a power reset was necessary to regain the connection.  This could be more a result of the device itself going into power mode and causing issues, but even after adjusting the power/sleep modes I still had issues.  Plus, I'd rather be able to maintain sleep mode on printers and scanners to save on power.  I'd still be interested in trying it out on some other devices (webcam) and see how the results faired.  These would be okay in some environments, but questionable in others if reliability is a concern.
4018361
I bought this router and the D-link card. The set up was easy, and it worked fine for a while. But after every couple of days, I had to re-boot it. I found later that a firm ware upgrade would obviate the problem. But why should I need to upgrade firmware for the basic functionality.
My recommendation would be to go for a tested 11 Mbps. Most people do not get internet connection over 1.5 Mbps anyhow so there is no bandwidth you are losing.
117535
I have nine FOSCAMs installed at three different locations but I find one or two fail about every year so I thought I'd try this Tenvis.
It's too soon to rate its reliability but I found the set up pretty easy and straight forward. One negative was setting up email notifications - it wasn't covered in the user manual. I muddled through it and got it to work but apparently one is  limited to using some widely available server (hotmail, gmail, etc) where I'd rather have used my isp's (Comcast).

I came back to change my rating after several months of use. The software is really much worse than Foscam. For example I couldn't change  the user name from "admin". Then there was the issue of restoring the camera to the factory defaults, having it appear in the set up tool but still being unable to access the interface - making the camera useless.
4688802
The router is easy to setup. When it works, it seems to work well, but it suffers from random wireless dropouts at least twice every day (not at the same time). It usually will restore itself within a minute or two but sometimes longer. At first, I tried rebooting the router but found that this usually required more time than just leaving it alone to recover on its own.

Random dropouts are a common problem with this product and a solution proposed on the Linksys forum is to downgrade the firmware, reset the router to factory settings and then reconfigure. That is a lot of work especially when using a lot of static IPs and special routing configurations. No, you are not supposed to use a saved config.
3443971
Extremely unreliable, needs to be power-cycled on a semi-regular basis. Has a way of just freezing up, even with the latest firmware update. I gave up on using it as my primary access point after a few frustrating months.
3526062
Great reception when it works, which is most of the time.  Firmware seems buggy as unit will sometimes lose connections (devices will see the wifi but can't connect until the router is power cycled) or settings will get lost.  Seems like the more features you enable the less reliable the unit is, so I'd recommend keeping it basic (not turning on QoS or Shareport or myDlink) unless you absolutely need the features.  D-Link does seem to update the firmware fairly often so hopefully issues will be resolved soon.  If it worked 100% reliably, would be a 5-star review.
4590271
When it worked... it was fine but every once in awhile, especially if I rebooted a computer connected to it, it would stop recognizing and passing through to one of the computers.  When this occurred I would spend an hour rebooting, unplugging/replugging and such to get it to maybe work.  I eventually gave up and returned it.