Advantages: Awesome Value for Money, Great Setup Utility Disadvantages: Not the best looking object in the world!
When you purchase an all-in-one solution for broadband in your home these days, you want something that will sit in the background, quietly providing you with fast broadband - whether wired to your desktops, wireless to your laptops or networked to a whole range of bandwidth hungry appliances. You want it to work and you want it to be reliable and of course it must be simple to set-up.
The 3Com OfficeConnect Wireless Router ticks all these requirements. I originally purchased one for a client, and I was surprised at how easy the installation was, especially since they used dreaded AOL! Many manuals for routers are usually of two distinct formats: horrendously complicated jargon-spewing bohemoths aimed at network professionals with accreditation from Cisco, or are partonising pamphlets covering the "perfect" install, which we all know ...
Advantages: Simple, dual speed, small size Disadvantages: Only 5 ports (?)
Not much to say about this really. I bought this for a pound (!) on Ebay to connect to my router giving me 4 more ethernet ports to connect stuff to my network. That's all it does, gives you more connection; there's no firewall, DCHP, nothing, but then that's all in my router.
Its 5 autosensing ports (Ethernet 10Base-T/100Base-TX - RJ-45)automatically detect the speed of the attached device to maximize network performance - with a data transfer rate of up to 100 Mbps.
It really was a "plug-and-play" installation with no configuration needed, it connected straight into my network - I didn't even ned to read the manual ! The auto-sensing feature means that you can plug the "in" cable into any socket - another 3Comswitch I have has a specific "in" port.
It's nice and small (Weight 0.6 kg, Height 4.2 cm, depth 13.5 cm, Width 22 ...
I bought this package for my university course works. I had a trial version which came with laptop but that expired. This product is a complete software package that helps save time and stay planned. The new menus Visual controls help alot. You don?t even need to look through the menus for a certain function. It is all there. This package includes word processing, e-mail, and the Web, and produce useful promotion campaign. I was able to create my university word processing assignments, spreadsheets, and presentations, and other tasks like building databases easily. It made this very easy and I got settled with this product very quickly. It has built in visual tools and menus that helped me learn and get used to it quickly. These menus and toolbars have made it easy to carry out a task, thus enabling to save more time. It is more user ...
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System requirements
OS Required
SunSoft Solaris 8, SunSoft Solaris 9, Red Hat Linux 8.0, Microsoft Windows XP Professional SP1a, Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional SP4
Peripheral / Interface Devices
CD-ROM, network adapter, SVGA monitor
System Requirements Details
Pentium 4 - 2.4 GHz - RAM 1 GB - HD 100 MB
Manufacturer's product description
This comprehensive wireless network management software package contains all the features you need to successfully plan, configure, deploy, and manage an enterprise-class wireless LAN. As an integral part of the 3Com Wireless LAN Mobility System, the 3Com Wireless Switch Manager software works with 3Com wireless LAN controllers and switches to centrally manage and control 3Com managed access points (MAPs) for networks demanding complex deployments, with multiple offices or with highly secure WLAN requirements. The planning portion of this powerful application lets you import site floor plans in a variety of file formats and automatically configure your site for capacity and coverage using the built-in Virtual Site Survey that accounts for a large variety of common RF(Radio Frequency) obstacles. During wireless network deployment, configuration templates are quickly replicated and verified. With a single click your network is set up, as, configurations are pushed to multiple wireless LAN switches, controllers, and managed access points via secure HTTP. Once installation is complete, the Wireless LAN Switch Manager enables simple and accurate operation of your entire wireless LAN enabling you to stay aware of all air space activities including detecting and locating rogue access points, ad-hoc networks or other RF interferers. Additionally, the manager can automatically adjust MAP power to eliminate coverage gaps and further optimize RF performance. Building on 3Com's strong wireless security features, 3Com Wireless Switch Manager can fully manage, secure and track on a per-user or per-group basis to all services on the wireless network. With this Identity-Based Networking capability, IT managers can have confidence in the enhanced security of their wireless LAN networks through improved user group authenticated access control, consistently enforced roaming policies, and monitored bandwidth usage.
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