Buffalo WZR-HP-G300NH review

Does this unit have a built in ADSL modem?

Does this unit have a built in ADSL modem?

By redgar3 on 5 Mar 2010

@redgar3

No, as it's a cable modem, but if you read the last paragraph of the review, it suggests a solution if you want to use it with a BT ADSL setup.

By pbryanw on 5 Mar 2010

Animal

I like its cute ears...is this a design in honour of the Great K-9?

Needs eyes...

By Gindylow on 7 Mar 2010

benchmark app?

is there a standard tool used for benchmarking throughput, or is it as simple as timing transfers with fixed file sizes?

By jeeves on 7 Mar 2010

Still Best Value

Can't find this router anywhere for the £47 + VAT as mentioned in article, best price now arounf £66 + VAT
Would it still win the award at this price?
Why has the ebuyer proce gone up almost £30

By rsnorris on 18 Apr 2010

KEEP AWAY FROM THIS ROUTER

Purchased this router almost 3 months ago, if you look on the web you will find people having major issues with it, it crashes all the time, reboots when it feels like. Just Google "wzr-hp-g300nh reboot" and all will be revealed.
PC Pro, as ever dont really put equipment through a rigourous test, A List aswell.....definately not

By m_nad on 31 Oct 2010

In addition to the WiFi performance testing, does PC Pro have any plans to test WANLAN performance?

I've just had FTTC installed and I've started to test some routers (mainly what I can find in the cupboard at work!).

As an example, a brand-new Zyxel NBG-460N returns a Speedtest.net result ~50% slower than my laptop does when plugged straight into the VDSL modem.

Fair enough my laptop isn't doing NAT/SPI/UTM/VPN etc but that's quite a difference.

By Chris_B on 10 Nov 2010

Buyers beware

I bought this product on the strength of this review so I think it fair to point these faults out to other potential purchasers.
This router although very appealing on paper has issues which make it very frustrating to use. Firstly I discovered that there is a fault with DHCP renewals which has been acknowledged by Buffalo technical. This will affect cable modem users and means that the router will not always obtain a WAN ip address without resetting both modem and WZR-HP-G300NH, which may take several attempts. The second problem is with the NAS functionality. It's not only slow but if you try and transfer large files it can totally hang the web interface and prevent any connections to the shared folders. The router does not loose any of its settings during this process and still functions as a wireless router.The only solution is a reset which if you are unlucky, also means that DHCP does not refresh. Several resets of the cable modem / router may also be required to get things working again. In conclusion this router is buggy no matter which firmware you choose to use. As Buffalo cannot advise of when new firmware is going to be released to fix the problems, I am left thinking that purchasing a more reliable product is the only option.

By spliff on 20 Nov 2010

the reason of slow NAS performance..

.. is probably the SATA driver, the penguin (in DD-WRT based firmware) is padding inside this box. Seen it before on some WD NAS's running on linux.

Please do correct me if I'm wrong, as I'd like to use this thing for wireless NAS.

By rando_mname on 5 Jan 2011

No PPPoA support no BT ADSL!

Both DD-WRT and the userfriendly firmware only support PPPoE. I have a Draytec 120 and whilst it connects to BT by itself it will not connect via the Airstation as no PPPoA support.

By dutch2 on 30 Oct 2011