| The Wireless-N
Home Router is really three devices in one box. First, theres
the Wireless Access Point, which lets you connect to the network
without wires. Theres also a built-in 4-port full-duplex 10/100
Switch to connect your wired-Ethernet devices together. Finally,
the Router function ties it all together and lets your whole
network share a high-speed cable or DSL Internet connection.
The Access Point built into the Router uses
the very latest wireless networking technology: Wireless-N
(draft 802.11n). By overlaying the signals of multiple radios,
Wireless-Ns "Multiple In, Multiple Out" (MIMO) technology
multiplies the effective data rate. Unlike ordinary wireless
networking technologies that are confused by signal reflections,
MIMO actually uses these reflections to increase the range and
reduce "dead spots" in the wireless coverage area. The robust
signal travels farther, maintaining wireless connections up to 3
times farther than standard Wireless-G.
With Wireless-N, the farther away you are, the
more speed advantage you get. It works great with standard
Wireless-G and -B equipment, but when both ends of the wireless
link are Wireless-N, the router can increase the throughput even
more by using twice as much radio band, yielding speeds up to 9
times as fast as standard Wireless-G. But unlike other
speed-enhanced technologies, Wireless-N can dynamically enable
this double-speed mode for Wireless-N devices, while still
connecting to other wireless devices at their respective fastest
speeds. In congested areas, the "good neighbor" mode ensures
that the Router checks for other wireless devices in the area
before gobbling up the radio band.
To help protect your data and privacy, the
Router can encode all wireless transmissions with
industrial-strength 256-bit encryption. It can serve as your
networks DHCP Server, has a powerful SPI firewall to protect
your PCs against intruders and most known Internet attacks, and
supports VPN pass-through. Configuration is a snap with the web
browser-based configuration utility.
The incredible speed of Wireless-N makes it
ideal for media-centric applications like streaming video,
gaming, and Voice over IP telephony, and gives you plenty of
headroom to run multiple media-intense data streams through the
network at the same time, with no degradation in performance.
With the Linksys Wireless-N Home Router at the center of your
home or office network, you can share a high-speed Internet
connection, files, printers, and multi-player games, and run
media-intensive applications at incredible speeds, without the
hassle of stringing wires! |
