Netgear WGR826V Wireless-G Router w/Phone Adapter ready for AT&T CallVantage¿ Service

Product Description
NETGEAR's WGR826V Wireless Router w/Phone Adapter ready for AT&T CallVantage¿ Service allows you to make unlimited local and long distance calling over your Cable/DSL connection for a single low rate (when you sign up for AT&T monthly service). It also allows all of your PC's and peripherals in the home to wireless connect to and share your Internet connection.Additional calling benefits include great savings on international calls, Free Caller ID, Free Call Waiting, Free 3-Way Calling and many other features not available with regular phone service.With best-in-class security features, the router monitors user activity with logging and e-mail alerts, and URL filtering controls. The WGR826V features a True Firewall with SPI (Stateful Packet Inspection) protection and Network Address Translation (NAT) to protect users against hackers. Installation is simple -- the Install Assistant guides you through each step and the Smart Setup Wizard automatically detects your ISP connection type. Lighted status icons clearly display network activity at a glance.

Average customer rating:

Very solid product and service (but too expensive)
Worst product and worst support from Netgear

Netgear WGR826V Wireless-G Router w/Phone Adapter ready for AT&T CallVantage¿ Service

Manufacturer: Netgear
ProductGroup: CE
Binding: Electronics

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A Wireless-G 54Mbps router with the addition of 2 VoIP ports for use with a regular phone (AT&T CallVantage¿ subscription required)
Allows all your PC's to share a single broadband connection and connect to AT&T CallVantage¿ Service
Make unlimited local and long distance calls to the US and Canada with AT&T CallVantage¿ Service
Many free phone features including some not available with traditional voice service
Also Includes 3-port switch and SPI Firewall for intrusion attempt detection and prevention

ASIN: B0002ZH6Z0

Product Description

With this solution from NETGEAR, you'll be delivered a 5-in-1 device - Voice-over-IP (VoIP) phone adapter, wireless access point, Ethernet switch, firewall, and router.Easily save money - use VoIP to reduce your phone bill. The router is simple to set up and use, and support for prioritized voice traffic means optimum Quality of Service (QoS) for your phone calls. It also provides high-speed connections - 10/100 Mbps Ethernet (auto-sensing) and 54 Mbps 802.11g wireless. In addition, this device is secure and private - thanks to double firewall, powerful WEP and WPA wireless encryption, and privacy controls.

Customer Reviews:

Very solid product and service (but too expensive).......2007-01-20

I can only guess the other reviewer had a bad unit or some internet connectivity problem. I had very good luck with this ATA and the AT&T branded VoIP service. In general, much better then other VoIP services I had tried (Lingo w/ D-Link ATA) about that time (Late 2005).
Note: As far as I know, this WGR826V is firmware locked to the AT&T CallVantage service, so to talk about one is to reflect on the other.

After several months I dropped the CallVantage service for lower cost options. The ATA never gave me troubles though.
I still have the ATA but haven't worked on setting it up with another SIP VoIP provider yet. (I probably need a password to access the firmware to make such changes. Any guesses?)

Worst product and worst support from Netgear.......2005-12-12

I purchased this product three months back and this is just a waste as I paid $129($60 MIR). Now you can get for it free after MIR. Why I am telling this is a bad product because of one bad power supply that comes with this TA keeps losing power. Only explanation given to me by ATT/Callvantage is that if I connect it to UPS or power outlet, it is too sensitive to obtain the required wattage/voltage. But, if you connect to wall socket as per ATT this would not occur. That is not true. It still loses power and after two weeks you have to physically reset and re-enter all information about PPOE etc. With Callvantage E-911, after it lost power it will prompt you to confirm whether you have changed the address or not. This keeps happening every two days and it is such an irritation.

If you contact AT&T, you will go on with them for an endless amount time on chatting, power recycling(rebooting) the TA. They have some stupid standard procedures. I spent atleast 1 hour on each time I called them.
After that, they figured out that there is some thing wrong power supply. They told me I should contact Netgear since I purchased from Local store. Here comes funny part.

If you are lucky, you will free telephone support for 90 days and after that you have pay for the support. I contacted Netgear within 90days. Their technician also spent more than hour and finally he told some senior technician would call me and it took 3 days for him to call me. I got so frustrated and I took it the shop where I purchased. They were reasonable and told me they will give store credit for the product.

Anyway, my Dlink TA working fine without any more these headaches.

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