I am very excited to be writing this! Finally I’ve seen some decent wireless-n speed with off-the-shelf products. Last week I wrote about finally seeing 38 Mbps with an all Netgear combination: the WNR 3500 Gigabit router and the WNDA 3100 Dual-Band USB adapter. I was so happy to see 38 Mbps then that I didnt really beat on that setup very hard. Well I did more testing with that setup this weekend, and now, I can’t recommend the WNDA 3100 anymore. Things change fast!
So I had to try and find a new adapter to see if I could get reliable results. So I found a new adapter to test with: the affordable Trendnet TEW-624UB. The fastest I had previously seen the Trendnet TEW-624 go was 30 Mbps (with the Netgear RangeMax Dual Band WNDR 3300). The Trendnet USB connected right away to the WNR 3500. The first test I ran was Transmit, and it went really fast: 64 Mbps! I didnt trust the results so I ran it again and got another 64 Mbps result. On the third transmit test run I got 71 Mbps! So thats the new record.
I also did receive testing, and got record breaking results: a solid 42 Mbps! So there it is. Congratulations to the new champs: The Netgear WNR3500 RangeMax Wireless N Router and The Trendnet TEW-624UB USB adapter.
Oh..I don’t like the WNDA 3100 anymore because during transmit testing it dropped its connection, twice. After the second connection drop, I decided to flunk the product, its either gone bad or just flaky. Either way its not reliable.
