Netgear WNDR4500v2

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abgn (AN900)
N900 Wireless Dual Band Gigabit Router
Support	Support page
Wikipedia	Netgear
3rd Party Firmware
dd-wrt	Status Unknown
OpenWrt	Status Unknown
Tomato any flavor	Status Unknown
Gargoyle	Status Unknown
Platform
Brand • Model • Rev	Netgear WNDR4500 v2
FCC ID	PY312300207
IC ID	4054A-12300207
Board ID	U12H224T00
Type	wireless router
CPU1	Broadcom BCM4706
CPU1 Type	MIPS 74Kc
CPU1 Speed	600 MHz 8-bit
Flash1 Chip	Samsung K9F1G08U0D-SCB0
Flash1 Size	128 MiB134,217,728 B <br />1,048,576 Kib <br />131,072 KiB <br />1,024 Mib <br />0.125 GiB <br />
RAM1 Size	128 MiB134,217,728 B <br />1,048,576 Kib <br />131,072 KiB <br />1,024 Mib <br />0.125 GiB <br />
RAM1 Chip	Winbond W9751G6KB-25 x 2
ETH chip1	Broadcom BCM4706
Switch	Broadcom BCM53125
Ethernet Port Count	1-1GbE-WAN 4-1GbE-LAN
Wired Standard	IEEE 802.3i/3u/3ab
802dot11 OUI: none specified
Expansion IF types	USB 2.0
USB ports	2
USB Hub Compatible	Untested
Power	12 VDC, 2.5 A
Connector type	barrel
Other
Default SSID: NETGEARXX (37 addl. devices) , NETGEARXX-5G (15 addl. devices) Default IP address: 192.168.1.1 the IP 192.168.1.1 is used by 1325 additional devices of which 107 are Netgear devices Default login user: admin Default login password: password admin:password credentials used by 425 additional devices of which 306 are Netgear devices
Manuf/OEM/ODM	Foxconn U12H224 T00
3rd Party Firmware Support	FreshTomato • (List | DLs)
Retail
FCC approval date	06 November 2012
Country of manuf	China
Radio 1
Chip1	Broadcom BCM4331
Wireless interface OUI	none specified
Antenna Connector Type	U.FL
MIMO status	3x3:3
Wireless Standard	IEEE 802.11a/n
802.11n	up to 450 Mbps
802.11a	up to 54 Mbps
WiFi Operating Frequency	5 GHz
Radio cor_rev	29
Radio 2
Chip1	Broadcom BCM4331
Wireless interface OUI	none specified
Antenna Connector Type	U.FL
MIMO status	3x3:3
Wireless Standard	IEEE 802.11b/g/n
802.11n	up to 450 Mbps
802.11g	up to 54 Mbps
802.11b	up to 11 Mbps
WiFi Operating Frequency	2.4 GHz
Radio cor_rev	29
CPU1 brand Radio1 chip1 brand Radio2 chip1 brand Netgear WNDR4500v1 Broadcom Broadcom Broadcom Netgear WNDR4500v2 Broadcom Broadcom Broadcom Netgear WNDR4500v3 Qualcomm Atheros Qualcomm Atheros Atheros

For a list of all currently documented Broadcom chipsets with specifications, see Broadcom.

For a list of all currently documented Netgear device with specifications, see Netgear.

• 450 Mbps - 3SS 5GHz 802.11n (40MHz chan.),

• 450 Mbps - 3SS 2.4GHz 802.11n (40MHz chan.) = AN900 class

Overview

Per the firmware available here, has the internal Foxconn model of U12H224.

The default SSID patterns seem to be NETGEARXX and NETGEARXX-5G again.

Links of Interest

• Tathagata Das's DD-WRT build for the device
• Per Tathagata Das on myopenrouter.com...

V1 and V2 are similar.. there are minor changes in wireless power settings...

but from hardware point of view they are same. BOARD ID are different.

Pictures

All pictures are from Netgear France.

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