Advantages: Reliable, Fast, Easy to configure, Lots of features, USB for sharing drives Disadvantages: Bit expensive, Not full speed with every machine
of features and even a USB port for sharing files on drives
- Lifetime manufacturer's warranty!
CONS
- Too sensitive to power cuts
- A bit expensive
- Not full speed on my laptop despite it having a Wireless N network card
VERDICT
This is one of the best routers I've ever used and it hasn't given me any grief until I had a power cut, which pretty much broke it. However, it survived a further 2-3 power cuts so maybe it was a one off. It is a bit on the expensive side but not as much as business routers. There is another router from Belkin that costs even more than this one but that one tells you your broadband speed and other stuff on a display on the router itself, how cool is that? As for this Belkin N+ modem router, it has all the features you could need and more unless you need VPN (connects you to a network securely over ...
Advantages: Fairly easy to set up, easy to use, reliable, looks good. Disadvantages: Bandwidth Innacurate.
We'd wanted to upgrade our router for a while to cope with Rich playing on his Xbox online mainly as we kept getting lag, which was especially apparent if I was also browsing the net (which I generally was) even to the point of Rich being disconnected mid game. He was getting annoyed with it so when we saw this router on offer at ebuyer.com for £69.99 (but has since gone back up to its previous price of £89.99); I jumped at the chance to get it and now we have it, I thought it was worth writing a review about, so here we are!
My review will be based on my experience of the router, and not a full technological break down of what it is capable of etc as that is readily available online from the manufacturer and would probably bore most people to tears anyway.
The first thing I notice when opening the box is how big the router is ...
Advantages: ease of setup,reliable connection Disadvantages: not the fastest on the market
When looking to go wireless in the computer world it is an absolute minefield when it comes to wireless routers/modems. I sat at my latop(tethered to the telephone socket with wires) scouring google for write ups about this router and that router when i came across this one. Now this is rated as being the best selling router/modem in the UK and has been for some time. I think i paid around £40 from ebuyer.com. I chose it because of the fact its reasonably priced. Its a good trustworthy brand and it seemed to come up to scratch on speed.
Upon opening the box the installation was very simple indeed. I just followed the instructions that came with the router and hey prsto i was wireless on my laptop.Software is easy to install and self explanatory. Its not the fastest band of router on the market but for what i needed it was ample ...
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Manufacturer's product description
The 3Com Router 3000 family are small business and enterprise-ready WAN routers designed for use in a branch or remote office environment, and complement the 3Com Router 5000 family. Supporting combinations of single or dual high-speed serial, ISDN or T1 or E1 WAN interfaces, there is a model suited for most business requirements. The routers help protect the purchase investment and eliminate hidden upgrade costs by being equipped with 64MB operating memory and full feature operating software with widely-used routing and security features, including: IP/IPX Routing, OSPF, BGP-4, QoS, Multicast, 802.1Q VLAN, VPN, Firewall, and more. The 3Com Router 3018 includes one high-speed E1 port operating in full unframed E1, fractional E1, channelized E1 or ISDN PRI mode. The router is designed for a remote branch of an enterprise and includes 64MB of memory and full feature software that is standard on the 3000 family. The router has a built-in 10/100 auto-sensing Ethernet port for LAN connectivity, a console port for direct management access, plus an auxiliary port that can be used as a 115, 200 baud serial interface or for connection to an external modem either as a back-up port data path or management access.
