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Linksys
Wireless-N
Gigabit Router
(WRT310N)
The Wireless-N Gigabit 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 Gigabit 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 Gigabit Switch, with a built in
speed and range enhanced Wireless Access Point
- MIMO technology uses multiple radios per band to create robust
signals for maximum range and speed, with reduced dead spots
- Much faster than Wireless-G, but also works great with Wireless-G
and -B devices
- Wireless signals are protected by industrial-strength encryption,
and your network is 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 far faster
than 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 Gigabit 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 faster than
10/100 wired network speeds, without the hassle of stringing wires! |
