3Com Router 1-Port ADSL/ADSL2+ SIC

Advantages: Awesome Value for Money, Great Setup Utility
Disadvantages: Not the best looking object in the world!

...could configure the unit. The setup utility is not a program as such, but a communication with the router. By typing the address: 192.168.1.1, it contacts the router and brings up the setup in your browser. All the settings are well laid out and easy to follow and in under 10 minutes, I'd physically connected the router, established how it should connect to the internet, and configured encrypted wireless networking. The help utility within the setup is extremely useful and explains in full what each setting does and why you'd need it. I found this particularly thoughtful of 3Com, when often manufacturers supply products on a certain level of assumed knowledge. Anyway, it was time to trudge over to the second building and configure the other computer to connect wirelessly to the newly created network. As I walked over, I was racking my... Read review

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Advantages: Firewall for the whole Network, Wireless, Your Own Site filtering options
Disadvantages: 20Mbs internet speed restriction.

...was connected and so was the rest of my family. I switched OFF the NTL Modem for 5 minutes, in order to make it forget my computer, connected the Ethernet cable to the WAN port on the 3Com router, my family computers (3) to the built in Switch on the 3com router and mine as well. Started the NTL Cable Modem, Started the 3Com router, started our computers, and BOOM, all were able to go to the Web, not even a single configuration on the router was needed. Sure you can configure it, it has a great wizard, but by default, it was made to work with Dynamic connections and it was love from 1st site. I have seen my neighbours buying DLink, Netgear, and many others; they all needed a bit of configuration 1st. But not the 3com router, it is now my favourite hardware manufacturer, as it apparently cares about the ease of use. I was erally impressed... Read review

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Advantages: Good price, reliable, lifetime warranty, easy setup
Disadvantages: No way to add an external antenna

...I bought the 3Com router after having countless problems with my previous router (Linksys WAG354G *shudder*). The set-up is suprisingly easy to be honest, especially with the step-by-step instruction booklet (only a few pages long, and in 5 or 6 languages). All that was needed was to plug in the ADSL filter (into the landline socket), connect the line to the back of the router, plug in the power supply and connect the ethernet cable (the large-ish square one) to the pc and router respectively. Then all that's left is to run the, very easy, set-up wizard. If my memory serves me right it's accessed by going to http://192.168.1.1 from your internet browser. The basic information needed is time/date settings, ISP username/password settings, a password for the WiFi (or use the automatically generated one) and a few other bits... Read review

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