Netgear DG834G

Got a broadband internet connection? Good. Got more than one PC in your household? Even better! If you’ve responded positively to both of those questions then you’ve most to benefit from the Netgear DG834G wireless router. A combination ADSL modem (cable versions are available, too), firewall and wireless network router, it’s the key to unlocking the potential of your broadband connection.

Positioning the router by your telephone point, you can beam your broadband connection out over the airwaves to any and all PCs in your household, putting an end to the wires and network cables snaking around the house. If you have a laptop on this network, this means that you can take it from room to room and have internet access without having to plug it in. Because it’s also a wireless network router, you can quickly and easily (if you’ve got Windows XP, at any rate) create a home network. Setting up this network will enable you to share files and folders between your PCs as well as allowing a printer that’s connected to one PC on the network to be used by all.

Obviously you’ll need wireless network adapters for each of your PCs that you’d like to connect to the DG834G; the PCMCIA or PCI cards cost around US$20 to US$50 each, but for the extra flexibility they offer it’s an outlay worth making. Supporting the backwardscompatible 802.11g networking standard, it’ll manage data transfer speeds of up to 54Mbps between your PCs and will keep up with any broadband upgrades you’re likely to make in the next few years. If you’ve got a wireless-enabled laptop, the flexibility of accessing the internet from any room inside or outside the house is worth the asking price alone.

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The DG834G includes a hardware firewall. This performs the same function as the Windows Firewall or any third-party application from ZoneLabs or McAfee, except that it sits in the modem itself and protects each and every PC on your network. It works by a process called Stateful Packet Inspection, which analyzes the traffic passing through the router and will filter out any undesirable traffic.

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