NETGEAR CENTRIA WNDR4720, Review Manual

Page 1: ...1 CENTRIA Reviewer Guide Model WNDR4720 with 2TB Hard Drive Oct 2012...

Page 2: ...CENTRIA Product features 7 4 Wireless Speed and Range 7 5 Advanced Features 8 ReadySHARE USB 8 ReadySHARE Vault 8 Time Machine Backup 11 ReadySHARE Cloud 11 Single Click SD Card Backup 11 ReadySHARE P...

Page 3: ...a high performance N900 WiFi router Available in two models Model WNDR4720 comes with an internal 2TB hard drive while Model WNDR4700 is storage ready just add your own hard drive into its internal s...

Page 4: ...han USB 2 0 Tech Specs Processor 1GHz CPU to handle multiple tasks simultaneously Memory 128MB Flash 256MB Memory N900 450 450 Simultaneous Dual Band Router 2 4 5GHz Ultimate Range High performance ex...

Page 5: ...experience for online video Setting up the NETGEAR CENTRIA is quick and easy with a simple browser based interface for PCs Macs smartphones the iPad and other tablets NETGEAR Genie is a free applicat...

Page 6: ...IA is turned on the power button is found on the back of the router at the bottom The third step is connecting your PC smartphone or tablet to the CENTRIA As noted above setting up the CENTRIA is quic...

Page 7: ...a 4 Wireless Speed and Range The CENTRIA delivers speeds up to 450 Mbps in the 2 4 GHz band and 450 Mbps in the 5 GHz band Six highly sensitive internal antennas are connected to the highest power rad...

Page 8: ...ection highlights a few of the many advanced features available on the CENTRIA ReadySHARE USB The CENTRIA is ready for instant file sharing just plug a USB hard drive or flash drive into either of the...

Page 9: ...en backs up only the changes Single Click Backup Automatically o Detects the Centria Internal Hard Drive as Default drive for backup Or change backup drive to external USB 3 0 hard drive o Selects all...

Page 10: ...10 In Windows Explorer The green dot on the files indicates that the files have been automatically backed up...

Page 11: ...ictures from a digital camera ReadySHARE Printer The CENTRIA makes it possible to share almost any USB printer with PCs and Macs on the home network through either a wired or wireless connection With...

Page 12: ...R Live Parental Controls NETGEAR Live Parental Controls give parents a centralized flexible and reliable way to establish what web sites their children visit and what times of day they can go online f...

Page 13: ...a network map and accessing many router features NETGEAR genie mobile apps are also available for iPhones Android phones and iPads To download NETGEAR genie go to www netgear com genie The NETGEAR ge...

Page 14: ...14 The Network Map presents a visual image of all devices connected to the home network The WiFi Channels feature shows which wireless channels are being used by the CENTRIA and nearby access points...

Page 15: ...15 The Internet feature shows real time Internet speed for both download and upload Air print Compatible Makes any printer AirPrint compatible to print from an iPad or iPhone...

Page 16: ...16 My Media Find and play media files in your network Mobile Available on Mobile Genie App...

Page 17: ...grams using multiple sessions instead of single sessions Highest speed is reached with Intel 6300 WiFi cards integrated in notebooks found in selected Dell and HP notebooks USB adapter speed with NETG...

Page 18: ...raffic This test is recommended at close range within 5 to 7 feet to ensure highest throughput in each frequency bands and measure total WiFi performance and stress test the CPU 4 Plug and Play USB ha...

Page 19: ...rom short 15 feet with line of sight to long for instance from one corner to another corner of the house through multiple walls Orientation 0 to 270 o Frequency channel 1 6 11 in 2 4 GHz Do a quick si...

Page 20: ...ment and providing enough averaging and accuracy is 30 seconds Test the AP to client downlink client to AP uplink and both uplink and downlink bidirectional Set up and run IxChariot scripts as describ...

Page 21: ...the router and to the wireless client computer Iperf Download Test 1 On the computer with the wireless adapter run Iperf as the server Type IPerf exe s w 10000k Run as server mode and 10000 KB file s...

Page 22: ...point 2 as WAN IP address Select Filercvl scr script a file receive script and edit the file size from 100 000 Bytes to 1 000 000 Bytes Set up and run the test for 1 minute and collect the data 2 Uplo...

Page 23: ...t For Win XP user please get Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Resource Kit Tools rktools exe from http www microsoft com en us download details aspx id 17657 8 Please map USB 3 0 external hard drive to y...

Page 24: ...th two pairs similar to bi direction test using default script of ilesendl scr 100k bytes and filercvl scr 100k bytes 2 Highlight both pairs and then right click and select copy to duplicate more pair...