NETGEAR WNDR4720 Review Manual
Wifi storage router with 2tb hard drive
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Page 1: Centria Reviewer Guide
CENTRIA Reviewer Guide Model: WNDR4720 with 2TB Hard Drive Oct 2012... -
Page 2: Table Of Contents
Single Click SD-Card Backup ........................ 11 ReadySHARE Printer ..........................11 Guest Network ............................ 11 DLNA ..............................12 NETGEAR Live Parental Controls ......................12 Advanced Quality of Service (QoS) ..................... 12 6. NETGEAR genie application ........................13 Appendix ..............................17 Technical Evaluation Recommendations .................... 17... -
Page 3: Resources
2. Introduction Simplify your digital home with NETGEAR CENTRIA. Easy to set up, use and manage, CENTRIA is an all-in- one device with 3 essential functions. It’s an Automatic Back-Up system for your PC & Mac® that safeguards all of your data; a Media Server that centrally and securely stores your media and is accessible from any Internet-enabled device;... -
Page 4: Connect Quickly
With CENTRIA you can relax knowing all of your digital media is safe in one place, stored securely on your home network and easily accessible—at home or away—with any Internet-enabled device, even your smartphone. Find & play your media on DLNA TVs, game consoles and more ... -
Page 5: Netgear Differences
Advanced Quality of Service (QoS). By prioritizing video streams over other home network traffic, advanced QoS provides the best possible viewing experience for online video. Setting up the NETGEAR CENTRIA is quick and easy with a simple browser-based interface for PCs, Macs, ™... - Page 6 Please contact NETGEAR’s PR team if any of these pieces are missing. The first step in setting up the CENTRIA is finding an appropriate location. For best results, NETGEAR recommends placing the router: Near the center of the area where computers and other wireless devices will operate.
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Page 7: To Experience All The Centria Product Features
To experience all the CENTRIA Product features: Use NETGEAR genie to go through the CENTRIA installation (step 4 above) During the product installation install the NETGEAR genie app and ReadySHARE Vault app (if you are using Windows PC) Set up backups for your... -
Page 8: Advanced Features
Then check the same locations again after installing the CENTRIA. You should see greater signal strength at many of these points. For NETGEAR’s recommendations on technical evaluation of wireless performance, see the Appendix. 5. Advanced Features This section highlights a few of the many advanced features available on the CENTRIA. - Page 9 ReadySHARE Vault lets you back up files from your Windows PC onto the internal hard disk in the router or to a USB device attached to the router USB port. ReadySHARE Vault uses incremental backup technology. After the first backup has been completed, ReadySHARE Vault checks to find out which files have changed since the last backup, and then backs up only the changes.
- Page 10 In Windows Explorer- The green dot on the files indicates that the files have been automatically backed up...
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Page 11: Time Machine Backup
To test this feature, simply plug a USB printer into either of the CENTRIA’s USB ports and make sure the correct printer driver software is installed on each PC or Mac that will access the printer. Then, download and install the NETGEAR ReadySHARE Printer utility—available free at www.netgear.com/readyshare on each PC and Mac. -
Page 12: Dlna
NETGEAR 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 for all devices on the network, including Windows PCs, Macs, smartphones and tablets. -
Page 13: Netgear Genie Application
Android phones, and iPads. To download NETGEAR genie, go to www.netgear.com/genie The NETGEAR genie utility goes beyond the genie interface that comes with the CENTRIA by providing an in-depth look at network performance and allowing advanced configuration for the router’s many... - Page 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 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 Mobile My Media—Find and play media files in your network Available on Mobile Genie App...
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Page 17: Appendix
It is best to use mid channels in 2.4 GHz range (Channel 4 – 8) as they support the highest power, per FCC/CE regulations, and hence provide extended range. For the 5 GHz band, the higher the power, the better the range. NETGEAR recommends using channel 153 for testing 5 GHz. - Page 18 There is no need for configuration or software installation. Simply type \\readyshare at Start -> Run when a PC is connected to the CENTRIA, either wired or wirelessly. The methodology NETGEAR uses to test USB access performance is highlighted below. 5. Links to Download Software The following section highlights useful content, information and links for reviewing the product.
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Page 19: Required Equipment
Standard Ethernet cable from the router to the computer that is running the IxChariot endpoint. 8. Throughput Consistency Test the throughput variance to see how consistently the client can receive optimum speeds. NETGEAR advises verifying the throughput in the following scenarios: ... - Page 20 Set Random file. For experimental purposes, send a text file, an HTML file, or a binary or compressed file. With binary or compressed files, throughput may increase due to effective compression. Set the file size to 1MB for short and medium ranges when throughput is higher than about 3 Mbps.
- Page 21 Then run the test. IxChariot Bidirectional Test Set up the download test and the upload test (all four bulleted items in the previous sections). Then run both tests at the same time. Set Up and Run Iperf Copy IPerf.exe onto each computer - one connected to the PC via wired Ethernet to the router and to the wireless client computer.
- Page 22 Iperf Upload Test 1. On the PC connected to the router via Ethernet, run IPerf as a server. Type: IPerf.exe -s -w 10000k (Run as server mode and 10000k byte file size.) 2. On the computer with the wireless adapter, run IPerf as a client. Type: IPerf.exe -c srv_ipaddress -w 10000k -P 2 -t 60 (Run as client mode, and set up the server IP with 10000k file size transfer with two pairs on 60 seconds) where srv_ipaddress is the IPerf server IP address.)
- Page 23 3. We suggest the SATA hard drive should support 7200 RPM, buffer size 64 Mbytes. If you use the Netgear installation utility to format the internal SATA hard drive, it will by default use the Ext 4 format, in a single partition.
- Page 24 14. For Bi-direction test: You need to Copy a file from partition1 to partition 2 of your external drive. 15. Record the start and finish time. Multiple Simultaneous Session Test 1. Setup with IxChariot with two pairs (similar to bi-direction test) using default script of ilesendl.scr (100k bytes) and filercvl.scr (100k bytes).