Wireless Networking

Belkin Wireless N1 Vision Router

Belkin Wireless router introduces Belkin N1 Vision – a superior performance among other draft 802.11n Belkin wireless routers. Belkin N1 Vision compares well to other draft-N routers for speeds, and the best looking router designs, offers draft 802.11n connectivity and a full complement of Gigabit Ethernet ports in back.

With the LCD screen mounted to the front of this Belkin Wireless router, allows you see out whether you have incoming / outgoing data, whether you have someone piggybacking on your network, and more. The Belkin N1 Vision offers easy plug-and-play setup, for the most part. An easy configuration can be done either by the software from the included disc, or going through your Web browser (by typing in “routersetup” into the address field).

Have a look at the table below as comparison between Belkin Wireless router and other two Belkin wireless-N routers according the manufacturer’s specs. Other features are almost the same.

*NOTE: The standard transmission rate–300Mbps–is the physical data rate. Actual data throughput will be lower

The following are other features of this Belkin Wireless router N1 Vision:

• Compatible to draft 802.11n and other legacy Wireless B/G.
• Introducing interactive status display, allows you see the network activity of broadband speed, bandwidth usage of the computer connected to the router. However on the downside, there’s no view of throughput between PCs on a network–you just get Internet upload and download activity.
• For security reason you can create partition for Guest with the Guest partitioned away from main network
• Support the latest security standards WPA/WPA2
• PPTP and IPSec VPN Pass-through

Belkin Router N1 Vision Configuration

Building your home wireless network is easy with this Belkin Wireless router N1 Vision. To share the broadband Internet connection you need to connect the RJ-45 gigabit WAN port to the DSL cable modem (such as Linksys cable modem or D-Link cable modem). If you have already had a “wired” Gigabit backbone LAN in your office you can connect this Gigabit LAN port to your LAN backbone as an Access Point to the wireless network. If you are connecting the Belkin wireless router to another router to use as a wireless access point and/or switch, you will have to do the following before connecting the router to your network:

• Disable DHCP feature of the router
• Change the LAN IP address to an available address on your network. The LAN ports on the router cannot accept a DHCP address from your other router.

For your home network, you can share the internet and use this high performance network coverage and speed to stream movies, music, and photos from your Windows Vista media center PC (using media center extender) to your High definition LCD TV wirelessly. Or if you have a game console, you can play the game LIVE wirelessly. This console can also extend your Windows media center to your HDTV too.

As general protection against network security threats, although it is not as secure as the firewall security guidelines applied in a large organization, assure that you enable the wireless connection with the latest security standard WPA/WPA2 encryption and also protect your computers with the virus protection software.


See also:

• Wireless routers with built-in ADSL modem
• How to build the best wireless network
• Setting up home wireless routers