Performance -
The performance of any wireless adapter is going to have multiple parts, just like any type of hardware. We are going to take a look at the ones we feel are the most important to consumers. The first is simply raw performance. For our testing we are still going to pit the business oriented WNDAP360 against some residential wireless routers, but we do want to point out that the residential routers are not in the same class. The NETGEAR WNDAP360 is designed to last longer, have better reception and also to provide better security than the average home router. This is often a mistake that small business owners will make when buying networking hardware, but more on that later.

As you can see the better wireless antenna gives us much better wireless throughput. Even at long ranges and through our electrical/wet wall. We were very impressed and have to wonder how well this would do if mounted to the ceiling where it would have a less obstructed path.

Reception -
As you can see from the data performance above the NETGEAR WNDAP360 has very good range. We found that it was able to pick up strong signal from more than 75-feet from its location inside our lab. We were still able to get a strong signal and good data throughput at up to 90 feet.

Link Speed -
Link speed gives you an idea of what your max data transfer will be. If you are connected at 45Mbps then you are not going to have a very fast connection. The downside of wireless is that this connection can vary even if you are stationary. This is because almost anything electrical (and not shielded) can interfere with your reception. For all but the extreme in our range testing all of our wireless adapters connected showing the full 300Mbps connection. We were very happy to see this as most routers we have tested start to drop off on the connection speed once we get around the corner from them.

Real World Traffic -
Our real world testing consists of things like streaming movies (from Netflix and a NAS device), moving large files (a folder with 20GB of pictures) and a video file, web browsing and of course some gaming. Our real world testing was also impressive. We had no issues running multiple video streams on this network including watching Netflix while running YouTube and music. All of this was under both Windows 8 and on Windows 7 systems. We also connected our Asus Transformer (original), an iPad2, and our EVO 3D without any problems.