AR670W AirLink 150Mbps Wireless-N Router – Share Your High-Speed Internet Connection Among Several Computers

Building a wireless network at home to share the broadband Internet Connection with the computers within the house, you need the following items: a Cable or DSL modem (depend on what your Internet service is, frequently provided by the ISP); an Access point; a switch; and the wireless network adapters for the computers or laptops that will connect to the wireless network. With the portability features of the wireless routers at the market, they have packed in a multi-function device which includes the functions of router/firewall, switch, and access point.

AR670W AirLink 150Mbps Wireless-N Router is a powerful product you can use to share your high-speed internet connection among the computers at home or at the office. What this product does AR670W AirLink Wireless-N Router is powered by draft 802.11n standard, the fastest wireless network available at the market today. Even though 802.11n is still not finalized yet, but all the wireless manufacturers adopt this draft 802.11n into their wireless products. Wireless-N technology lets you surf the web, play on-line games, and listen to your digital music in the comfort of the living room without the clutter of the wires or any where within the house. The extra speed lets you connect more devices, and move files faster. And Wireless-N works great with your older devices, too. With the wireless environment at home, you can make Internet phone calls with your Wifi Skype phone anywhere within the house without the need to open the computers.

Advanced Security

AR670W AirLink Wireless-N Router featuring advanced security such as:

• The latest wireless security WPA/WPA Wi-Fi Protected Access WPA/WPA2 and dual firewall features (NAT and SPI). Network Address Translation (NAT) will hide your private (trusted) network from the un-trusted network and Stateful Packet Inspection (SPI) examine the inbound packets more precisely than usual. These features are designed to help safeguard your home network and computers from most Internet threats.
• AR670W AirLink Wireless-N Router also supports VPN tunneling which allows you to enable connect via the internet using IPSec pass through (Internet Protocol Security), PPTP pass through (Point-to-Point Tunneling protocol), or L2TP pass through (Layer 2 Tunneling Protocols) protocols to pass through the Router’s firewall.
• Internet Access Policy, you can manage the access of the internet by creating the Internet Access Policy. The policy is disabled by default, you need to enable it if you need to create the Internet Access Policy that can be edited according to the need, such as computers will be affected by the policy (by MAC or IP address) either Deny or Allow, the days and times the policy to enforced, the websites to block and so on.

Applications and Gaming – DMZ AR670W AirLink Wireless-N Router also supports DMZ host. The DMZ feature allows one network computer to be exposed to the Internet for use of a special-purpose service such as Internet gaming or videoconferencing. DMZ hosting forwards all the ports at the same time to one PC. The Port Range Forwarding feature is more secure because it only opens the ports you want to have opened, while DMZ hosting opens all the ports of one computer, exposing the computer to the Internet. Before you start building the network, you should read the wireless installation and consideration as well as the wireless security checklist to help you protect the network from the threats. You can also consider the TRENDnet gigabit wireless-N router for the center of the wireless network at home or at the office. TRENDnet TEW-633GR is the 300Mbps wireless n gigabit router for your wireless network environment at home or at the office. Having a wireless network at home you should secure your connection with the latest wireless encryption WPA/WPA2 and make sure that all the computers are protected by anti-virus softwarewith regular data signature updates.

See also:

• Best wireless networking
• Well known wireless -n routers
• XBOX Wireless routers