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I would have given the NetGear WNR3500Lv2 a five star rating if it weren't for the fact that my son and I spent two hours trying to figure out why the Wi-Fi download speed was less than 1 Mb/sec and yet the upload speed was 6 Mb/sec (normal). LAN download speed through the router was a normal 27 to 30 Mb/sec. The signal strength was excellent so we knew that wasn't the issue (and that wouldn't affect just the download speed anyway). We finally found the culprit! The factory default setting for what is called "Enable WMM (Wi-Fi multimedia) settings" was enabled. To disable this setting log into the router in the usual way and click on "Advanced" > "Setup" > "QoS Setup" then uncheck the box next to "Enable WMM (Wi-Fi multimedia) settings". NetGear should not have set this as a enabled by default or at least made the customer aware of this being a cause of extremely slow download speeds. We did not install Tomato firmware due to several forum complaints of this router getting "bricked" after installing Tomato but did upgrade the NetGear firmware to V1.2.0.32_40.0.74. So far its working great and produces very little heat which is a good thing for longevity of component life.