Advantages: Value for money, reliability, Disadvantages: None
The Belkin WirelessGRouter F5D7230-4 - wirelessrouter, really good Wirelessrouter, good value for money gives you the opportunity to :
Create a network in your home or office without cables,
Offers backward-compatibility with all 802.11b devices,
Sets up easily with Belkin Easy Install Wizard-automatically detects Internet settings and self-adjusts Router to get you online in under 3 minutes,
Ensures data and network security with wireless 64- and 128-bit WEP encryption
Uses NAT and SPI firewall to protect network from people trying to hack into it, also
Works with Macintosh® and PC computers,
Comes with a Belkin Lifetime Warranty and free, 24-hour technical support, although the helpful step-by step installation disk will get you connected with-in minutes.
No Matter the size of your house the signal strength is normally very ...
Advantages: Works very well 3 floors up. Disadvantages: If you are on Vista, takes a costly telephone call to get you connected.
We bought this wirelessrouter as my son wanted to use his Wii on the internet. His room is on the 3rd floor and the computer and router are on the ground floor.
It was simple to set up and the instructions were good, however, because we are using Windows Vista, nothing is ever straight forward. With one longish phone call to India, via the number on the instructions to ring, everything was sorted out. The phone call took 35 minutes for which I am sure i was charged a fortune for and there is no way I could have worked it out for myself, it was far too complicated to get this router to work on Vista.
Once it was working though everything has gone smoothly. I do find that the internet is somewhat slower however he has a great connection on the 3rd floor and we have no complaints. Although the initial set up was frustrating ...
Advantages: Very stable, good speed Disadvantages: Not a pretty boy, yet to get remote admin working
version of 1.00.017. However, the latest version offered by Belkin's website at the time of writing this review (20/10/2006) is 1.00.011.
My personal router has working solidly for 18 months without issue. It has 1 wired (that is in constant use) and an occasional wireless client. It has never locked up or dropped a connection during this time.
This model router is also running 6 wireless plus 2 wired clients in a business environment, 8 hours a day 5 days per week for the last month.
Each client machine regularly has multiple server based applications open at any one time and also has print, internet and email services. It is also configured for remote FTP, pcAnywhere, VPN and Exchange Server (OWA) access.
Unlike other routers in this class from other manufactures (which have often failed or required re-booting within a few ...
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NETGEAR's Wireless-G router delivers open source code for Linux developers and hobbyists. The KWGR614 offers greater flexibility with detachable antenna. Additionally, the Wireless-G router delivers up to 2x the WAN-to-LAN throughput of other Wireless-G routers. The KWGR614 router admits only legitimate traffic by combing two proven standards: NAT (Network Address Transfer) and SPI (Stateful Packet Inspection). It also delivers the highest level of wireless network security with WPA (Wireless Protected Access).
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