3Com Office Connect – A Wireless ADSL Router with 108 Mbps 11g Firewall Router for your single solution in building home network.
3Com Wireless ADSL Frewall Router
When you would like to build a wireless networking at home, what are the requirements until you make up your mind to buy the router? If the portability, the high performance, and the complete solution are your requirements, then you should consider this 3Com Wireless ADSL Router.
Portability, this 3Com Office Connect Wireless ADSL Router is an All-in-one design that integrates five functions— 802.11g wireless access point, 4-port switch, firewall, routing and ADSL 2/2+ modem— into one product, simplifying deployment even for inexperience person. A browser-based user interface and simple setup wizards ease installation, configuration and administration.
For wired connection to this 3Com wireless ADSL router, the router supports 4 10/100 Auto MDI/MDIX Ethernet Switch for your desktop or network printers. It means that you don’t need to worry whether the cable is straight-through or cross cable UTP CAT5.
To share the broadband Internet, you connect to the active ADSL broadband connection; you don’t need a DSL modem anymore. This product is designed to support ADSL over ISDN (ITU Annex B).
3Com Wireless ADSL Firewall Router
The 3Com Office Connect Wireless ADSL 108 Mbps 11g Firewall Router is equipped with a new advanced chipset featuring new baseband architecture that – an eXtended Range technology that enables long-range connections. With many obstructed wireless operating range, this router still can reach up to 100 m (328 ft) maximum; but with line of sight signal you can reach up to 350 m (1,148 ft) maximum.
This architecture can deliver receive sensitivities of up to -105dBm, over 20dB better than the standard 802.11 specification. This technology provides coverage in home networking environments with a single network access point, eliminating the dead spots in business or corporate WLANs, and provides unobstructed coverage of up to two times the distance of competing WLAN solutions. The router is Wi-Fi CERTIFIED and also supports the Wireless Distribution System (WDS) feature. WDS simplifies setup of an extended or completely wireless network (requires access points that support WDS). With this wireless environment, you can use it to make unlimited free Skype calls with your Wifi phone such as Belkin Skype phone or similar type Netgear Wifi phone.
Advanced Security
- For a secure connection to the wireless environment, you need to connect to the wireless network using wireless industrial standard WPA/WPA2 encryption. This 3Com wireless ADSL router supports 128-bit WPA/WPA2 with TKIP/AES encryption for maximum security, along with 40/64 and 128-bit Wired Equivalent Privacy (WEP) encryption for legacy clients.
- This wireless ADSL router supports dual firewall features NAT and SPI that will protect your private network from the Internet. The other security features are URL filtering, IP and MAC address filtering and support for the SurfControl Web Filter service and other security features help protect the entire network from attacks and other Internet security risks. The unit comes with a 14-day free trial of the SurfControl Web Filter, an optional content filtering service for routers that blocks access to pornographic, prejudicial, violent and undesired Internet web content or services.
Remote connection
If your wireless network with this 3Com wireless ADSL router is used for SOHO where you frequently travel and would like to connect remotely to the network during on the go, this router supports VPN pass-through permits secure connections.
IP routing (static, RIP v1 and 2) enables the router to be used in multi-networked environments, you can build multi site branch offices with this 3Com router. But for a complex multi-sites environment do not use this home or SOHO version routers. For corporate multiple global networks you need to build a very secure endpoint security, you can follow the guidelines in using the secure firewall here.
For general guidelines in installing a wireless networking, you can read the general security guidelines here.
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