Posts Tagged ‘NETGEAR’

Netgear passed the N600 dual band wireless router through the FCC yesterday.  The device provides 802.11 a/b/g and dual-band wireless N goodness.  The N600 has four 10/100 LAN ports, and supports Netgear’s Readyshare technology.

Unfortunately, we don’t have any external or internal pics of the device, although label pics suggest that the device will have a similar form factor as Netgear’s DGN3500 wireless router.

No word on pricing or availability.

Yesterday, Netgear passed their Push 2 TV PTV1000 adapter through the FCC.  This interesting device makes use of Intel Wireless Display, a surprising technology from the chip giant that has to this point flown under the radar.

Intel Wireless Display consists of two core components:

-A Push 2 TV adapter, like the PTV1000.  This device connects to your TV, and receives signals sent from an Intel Wireless Display enabled laptop.

-Laptop computer with Intel Wireless Display installed.

The Netgear PTV1000 user manual suggests that you start Intel Wireless Display by searching for “Intel Wireless Display” on a Windows 7 laptop.  That’s interesting, since it suggests that Intel Wireless Display software may already be installed on your laptop.  The manual also mentions that some laptops will have a dedicated Intel Wireless Display key, with the symbol shown top, left.

In addition to Intel Wireless Display software, you will need Intel’s My WiFi feature enabled.  My WiFi allows your laptop to act as a hotspot for other laptops, and Push 2 TV adapters.

After the Intel Wireless Display launches, it searches for available adapters (image below).  Hit ‘connect’ once your adapter is listed, and you’re all set.

To prevent any random laptop from connecting to your adapter, the PTV1000 will display a 4 digit PIN on the TV, and you must input this number on your laptop (below).

We don’t know what laptops will be Intel Wireless Display-enabled.  However, only i3, i5 or i7-powered laptops are listed as compatible (below).  An Intel GMA HD graphics adapter and Windows 7 is also required.

The FCC filing from Netgear does not mention when the PTV1000 or Intel Wireless Display technology will be released.  However, we’d guess that we’ll learn more next week at CES.

This surprising device passed through the FCC today.  Known as the Netgear PTV1000 Push 2 TV Adapter, this device uses Intel Wireless Display technology to wirelessly stream video and audio from your laptop to your TV via WiFi.

The benefits here are obvious – instead of connecting a bunch of wires to your notebook, just wirelessly pipe YouTube or Hulu to your TV.  The PTV1000 can also save you time when making presentations – just wirelessly connect to a projector, and you’re set.

The Intel Wireless Display technology is a unsecured output, however, so Netgear warns users that they may not be able to play some protected DVD and Blu Ray discs.  The technology is only available for Intel Core i3, i5 or i7 notebooks with an Intel GMA HD graphics adapter and Windows 7, as well.

No word on pricing or availability, and Intel Wireless Display technology seems to be a pretty well kept secret so far.  I’d expect to see an official unveiling of Intel Wireless Display and the PTV1000 at CES, however.

NETGEAR passed this decent-looking wireless cable gateway through the FCC today.  There’s not a whole lot new here – the device takes your cable Internet connection and pumps it through the air via 802.11 b/g/n.

Under the hood, the CG300D rocks a Broadcom BCM53115 gigabit switch processor.