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Linksys
Ultra
RangePlus Wireless-N Broadband Router
(WRT160N)
The Ultra RangePlus Wireless-N Broadband Router is really three devices
in one box. First, there's the Wireless Access Point, which lets you
connect to the network without wires. There's 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-N's "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 much farther than standard Wireless-G.
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Features:
- Internet-sharing Router and 4-port Switch, with a built in speed
and range enhanced Wireless Access Point
- MIMO technology uses multiple radios to create a robust signal
that travels farther and reduces dead spots
- Much faster than Wireless-G, but also works great with Wireless-G
and -B devices
- Wireless signals protected by wireless encryption, and your
network protected from Internet attacks by a powerful SPI firewall
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 network's
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! |
