False Marketing

I’m sure we’ve all seen some form of false advertising before especially if we don’t know what products are been compared. In this case it was a comparison between some wireless routers/access points from Netgear.

The comparison tries to show how Wireless N is better than Wireless G, shown by the ticks. The fact is that this comparison is wrong and even on Netgear’s website from their Wireless G routers/access points you’re able to see that they have contradicted themselves.

1. According to the comparison, multiple PCs connected wirelessly isn’t function on Wireless G routers/access points. So all of you who have more than 1 wireless pc connected to a Wireless G router then unplug it right away! You wouldn’t want to use your router to it’s potential. (View the picture below of a Wireless G access point that shows more than 1 wireless device connected to the access point)
2. From the picture below of a Wireless G access point, the access point handles video conferencing so VoIP should be fine.
3. Wireless G is 54 Mbps which should equate to at least 1-2+ Mb/s with encryption enabled, so even if you had ADSL2+ heavy internet usage would not be a problem.
4. I’ll assume they mean multiplayer gaming on the internet. The Wireless G router/access point would only add about 5-15ms or so which shouldn’t be a problem for most games.
5. Any wireless router/access point should be able to support Networked or shared storage / large file sharing, the point that they missed is that the Wireless N routers/access points will be able to transfer these files quicker. See the below picture where for a Wireless G access point they have said that it can download large files.

So there you have it, 5 ticks which could have easily been applied to Wireless G which has been ignored by Netgear so that their Wireless N products would seem better to us, the consumers.

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