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SMC2404WBR Barricade Turbo 11/22 Mbps Wireless Cable/DSL Broadband Router | List Price: $185.99
Discount Price: $30.90
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Brand: SMC
Binding: Electronics
Warranty: Limited lifetime warranty
Features: - All-in-one solution provides switching, IP sharing and firewall security in one single device
- 64-bit/128-bit/256-bit WEP encryption and Mac address filtering ensure secure network connection
- 3-port 10/100 Mbps switch versatility plus 1 10/100 Mbps port for WAN connection
- Wireless operation at 22 Mbps, 11 Mbps, 5.5 Mbps, 2Mbps, and 1 Mbps and has an operating range of up to 1155 feet
- Parental Control to protect your family with URL blocking capability
Don't buy it [Posted on 2004-03-29]
This router has been a nightmare. It won't save the settings, disconnects frequently and just plain doesn't work like it should. Spent a half hour with tech support and he said he was going to email me new firmware...He did not. This is one of the worst products I have ever used.
Started off ok... [Posted on 2004-10-29]
This router worked pretty well for me for the first three or four months that I had it, but I started having connectivity problems after that. I left it with my girlfriend while I was out of the country for six months but she never really got it set up right. When I got home and set it back up, I had major wireless connectivity problems - with my laptop on my desk two feet from the router, it would take five minutes for the router to assign an IP, and then it would drop the connection. I've now replaced the Barricade with a Netgear and my only complaint after three months is that secured sites sometimes have a lot of lag, which was true with the old router anyway. I thought SMC was a reputable brand but both this product and the older version my father has have been unimpressive for wireless use. I won't be buying another SMC in the future unless it's really throwaway cheap.
Terrible, slow, hangs!! [Posted on 2004-12-10]
very bad hardware. After 4 weeks the router started to hang, and I had to reboot it to unlock it. Now this happens every hour, and anyway when it is working my pages take 5 second to load, slower than dial up and I am on cable.
I own and have used lynksis, netgear and belkin, all of them without a problem. I bought smc because of a professional review, but this is bad equipment.
Their support is terrible, if you go to their website you cannot even find new or old firmware for this model.
of course they don't want to honor the warranty because "it is working". Stay away!!!!
SMC2404WBR Barricade - HORRIBLE [Posted on 2005-10-14]
Please for the love of GOD, do not buy this router! It is the worst wireless router that I have ever purchased and used. As many other reviewers have wrote, this *POS* hangs and the generated signal is undoubtedly the weakest of its class. It is unnecessary to recommend another brand because you can't get anything worse. The only good thing about this is that it still "runs" even after I threw it against the wall a couple of times out of frustration!
Bad router. Slow, unstable and extremely weak signals. [Posted on 2006-01-18]
Bad router. Slow, unstable and extremely weak signals. SMC had some good products, but this is definitely not one of them.
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