Prolink WNR1011 4G Wireless-N Mobile Router

Posted on January 24th, 2012 in Wireless Router | No Comments

Connectivity WiFi 802.11 b/g/n, USB 2.0; data speed up to 150Mbps
Prolink WNR1011 4G Wireless-N Mobile Router

Looking to stay connected wherever you are?

Prolink’s new WNR1011 4G Wireless-N Mobile Router lets you do just that. The router, enhanced with 802.11 b/g/n technology, lets you create a wireless hotspot just about anywhere with the insertion of a 3G or 4G dongle, so you can easily access your favorite Internet sites. Sleek, portable and compact, the router’s casing even
has a compartment to store your USB 2.0 cable so you’ll never forget the essentials. The powerful WNR1011 has a data speed of up to 150Mbps and can support up to a maximum of 20 WiFi users, with its built-in 2400mAh lithium ion battery lasting up to six hours on a full charge.

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Asus RT-N56U Dual-band Wireless Router

Posted on November 4th, 2011 in Hardware, Wireless Router | 1 Comment

Asus’s engineers lavished as much attention on the Asus RT-N56U Dual-band Wireless Router skin as they did its guts: This dual-band router is a looker, and it’s also
pretty damned fast.

The Asus RT-N56U has a nicknamed Black Diamond for its look, shiny black plastic housing. In addition to speed, it delivers excellent range and a good collection of features. It’s missing one very important feature, however: It doesn’t provide a guest network on either its 2.4GHz or 5GHz radios. It does offer two USB ports (to support both a printer and an attached stor age device) and support for WDS bridging (you can turn off its router function and use it as a wireless bridge). Alternatively, you can configure the router as a wireless access point. The Black Diamond graphical user interface renders any setup easy.

Asus RT-N56U Dual-band Wireless Router

When plug a USB hard drive into all too many routers, sometimes the port doesn’t deliver enough juice to spin up the drive’s platters. Our long-time favorite, Netgear WNDR3700, proved guilty of
this when we connected a Verbatim Clon drive. The Asus RT-N56U Dual-band Wireless Router has no such problem; it can deliver up to 30 watts of power through its USB ports.

The very thin router comes with a stand that puts it in a vertical orientation, with its Gigabit modem port and 4 Gigabit Ethernet ports facing right, but it can just as easily lie flat on a shelf or your desk with its ports facing the wall.

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Cisco Linksys E3000 Wi-Fi Router

Posted on September 26th, 2010 in Wireless Router | 1 Comment

Cisco’s new Linksys E-series routers look a lot like the WRT-series routers they replace, complete with the weird flying-saucer motif and internal antennas. All the new features are under the hood and in the setup sofware.

Linksys E3000

As befits a flagship product, the Cisco-Linksys E3000 is a dual-band (2.4GHz and 5GHz) router that enables you to operate two discrete wireless networks simultaneously. You can also operate a virtual guest network on the 2.4GHz band that limits clients to Internet access, isolating them from the rest of your network.

We typically ignore a router’s setup software, but we’re of two minds when it comes to Cisco Connect. It’s the most foolproof tool we’ve ever used to set up a router, but it’s very fragile unless you do things exactly Cisco’s way. The utility assigns the router a unique, easy-to-remember SSID (e.g, RubyPenguin) and a complex password. Connecting additional PC clients to the network is a simple matter of using Cisco Connect to create a USB key and then plugging the key into each client.

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Linksys by Cisco WRT160N

Posted on September 11th, 2010 in Wireless Router | No Comments

Linksys by Cisco WRT160N Ultra RangePlus Wireless-N Broadband Router

Linksys by Cisco WRT160N

Shaped like a flying saucer, the WRT160N Ultra RangePlus comes with an easy-to-use Web interface, making it a breeze to set up and manage.

It comes with a Mac set-up wizard as well. Its advanced wireless security and SPI firewall protection keep you safe from most known Internet attacks.

Cisco-Linksys WRT160NL Wireless-N Broadband Router

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Linksys by Cisco WRT610N

Posted on September 8th, 2010 in Wireless Router | No Comments

Linksys by Cisco WRT610N

Running both 2.4GHz and 5GHz bands, the WRT610N promises high-speed networking at home and in the office.

With simultaneous dual bands, playing your favourite online games in the living room will not slow down dad’s Web surfing in his room.

You can also turn the WRT610N into a network attached storage device by plugging in an external hard drive.

A powerful stateful packet inspection (SPI) firewall protects you against intruders as well as most known Internet attacks and 128-bit encryption ensures that your data is well-protected.

Continue to read: Linksys Simultaneous Dual-N Band Wireless Router with 4 Gigabit Port Switch

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Trendnet TEW-652BRP

Posted on July 15th, 2010 in Hardware, Wireless Router | No Comments

Trendnet TEW-652BRP

TRENDnet TEW-652BRP looked promising in the first benchmark test, with the client in the kitchen and closest to the router. Achieving TCP throughput of 68.4Mb/s put it in third place behind Belkin’s N Wireless and D-Link’s DIR-615. Performance went downhill from there, with the TEW-652BRP placing fifth, fourth, and last in our patio, bedroom, and media room locations, respectively. It couldn’t maintain a connection to the client at all in our most distant outdoor tests.

Feature-wise, the TEW-652BRP is about as basic as they come. You can establish routing rules for special applications, such as games, but QoS features are limited to the minimum required to achieve Wi-Fi Alliance certification.

This model boasted the lowest street price, of all the routers, but it’s no bargain. In fact, if you don’t need wireless routing, Asus’s pathetically slow RT-N13U is the better value, thanks to its support for printer sharing and USB storage. In reality, though, we’ve never met someone who bought a wireless router and didn’t use its wireless networking capabilities. The real bottom line is that you could spend just a few extra clams and step up to the D-Link DIR-615, which delivers exponentially better performance and a much stronger feature set.

Trendnet makes some very good routers; the TEW-652BRP isn’t one of them.

Checkout the specification on TRENDnet 300 Mbps Wireless N Home Router TEW-652BRP

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Belkin N Wireless F5D8236-4

Posted on July 6th, 2010 in Wireless Router | No Comments

Belkin N Wireless F5D8236-4

Router manufacturers have a bad habit of assigning the same names to several different products, or completely changing a router’s underlying architecture and changing only the version number. Belkin has two routers it calls N Wireless (and a third called the N+ Wireless).

Belkin Wireless N Router is very short on features, but it turned in first or second-place performances at four of our six test locations. It delivered TCP throughput of 76.2Mb/s with the client in the kitchen, 38.1Mb/s on the outdoor patio, and 20.3Mb/s in the double-walled media room. (Its throughput in the media room was two to five times faster than everything other than the D-Link DIR-615). Once we moved the client to our more distant outdoor locations, however, the router and client couldn’t maintain a connection at all.

The router can be configured to operate as a wireless access point. It also supports UPnP, so it should play well with other UPnP devices, but it’s extremely limited in terms of manual configuration. Its QoS settings are limited to enabling or disabling Wi-Fi Multimedia, for instance, and you can’t change its settings for port range forwarding or triggering.

Continue to read at Belkin Wireless N Router specification.

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