NETGEAR is a well-known brand in the international market. When it comes to Netgear, the only thing you can think of may be a wireless router, but in fact, Netgear has a rich product line, including routers, switches, APs and network cards, and it has considerable depth. NETGEAR has basically occupied a leading position in the market in Europe and the United States, with a market share of more than 30% in North America.
 
Netgear and Lingshi are known as the "double wall" in the U.S. wireless network market, both are very similar in terms of market strategy, product attributes, etc., for example, Netgear has always pursued "quality" to win, that as long as the product is good, users will naturally come to buy, so more attention is paid to how to do a good job of the product, rather than emphasizing cost performance. Netgear is basically the same as the concept of "word-of-mouth is the best advertising", and the market share of the two in North America is also equal, occupying the top two positions respectively.
 
Because the two are so similar, the problems encountered by Netgear in the Chinese market are similar to those of the leader: the market share and attention are relatively low, and the Chinese market sales account for only 4% of the total sales. The reason for this is that Netgear does not design products specifically for the Chinese market, but directly introduces local products from the United States to China for sale, and the localization is insufficient. Then there is the high-end positioning of NETGEAR, which has always given people a feeling of being on top, which is not quite in line with the reality of the current Chinese market.
 
Netgear's products are designed with "low emission", and the transmission power must be guaranteed to be within 100 milliwatts, and the product performance will not be improved by increasing radiation, which is the strongest advantage of Netgear. The strength of Netgear also lies in the excellent official technical support, its after-sales and technical documentation support are professional, and the shortcoming is that the problem of missing official firmware function and slow update of Netgear has always existed. If you only treat Netgear wireless products as a basic network device, Netgear is undoubtedly qualified, but if you want more functions, you may need third-party firmware to implement it.
 
There are also not many optional models of netgear network cards, and there are only three USB wireless network cards on sale in the Chinese market, namely A7000, A6210 and WNDA3100, and the prices are more than 200 yuan.
 
A7000 is Netgear's current flagship network card, the overall style of the network card is similar to ASUS USB-AC68, both are USB base folding external antenna design, the maximum transmission rate is also dual-band 1900M, and even the chip is the same Realtek. In terms of price, the two are not far apart, both are around 450 yuan, the only difference is that Netgear is a two-year direct replacement warranty service, while ASUS supports a three-year warranty, which can be freely selected according to brand preferences.
 
The slightly lower A6210 is also designed with an external folding antenna, and it is also equipped with a USB base, but the chip is MTK, and the highest rate
 
1200M, a generation behind A7000, is considered a flagship USB network card of the previous generation, but it is still not backward at present. In terms of price, A6210 is the same as the entry-level network card of Netgear WNDA3100 which is 229 yuan, but the performance is obviously much better, and it is undoubtedly more worth buying. However, it should be noted that the compatibility of the USB 3.0 interface of the A6210 is not ideal, especially with the native USB 3.0 master of the Intel 7/8 series chipset, and only the USB 2.0 interface can work stably.