DIR-855 Wireless Router is a High Performance D-Link Router Wireless with Xtreme N Duo Technology provides speed up to 300Mbps (in ideal condition, actual rate may vary) with the Award Winning Router Features
Like other wireless router products such as Linksys by Cisco, DIR-855 Wireless Router combines award winning router features and dual IEEE 802.11a and Draft 802.11n wireless technology to provide the best wireless performance.
Extended Whole Home Coverage
This D Link router wireless is powered by Xtreme N™ Duo™ technology provides speed up to 300Mbps (in ideal condition, actual rte may vary) wireless connection with the same other 802.11n wireless clients such as DWA-160N USB adapter, this high performance router provides superior Whole Home Coverage while reducing dead spots. Even though this DIR-855 Wireless Router is powered by wireless-N technology, it is fully backward compatible with wireless-B and Wireless-G standards, so it can connect with existing 802.11g and 802.11a PCI, USB, and Card-bus adapters.
DIR-855 wireless router is designed for use in bigger homes and for users who demand higher performance networking. It will provide you an optimum throughput if you add an Xtreme N notebook adapter or desktop adapter and stay connected to your network from virtually anywhere in your home.
Total Network Security
DIR-855 Wireless Router supports all of the latest wireless security features to prevent unauthorized access or the threats form over the wireless network or from the Internet. Support for WPA and WEP standards ensure that you’ll be able to use the best possible encryption method, regardless of your client devices. In addition, this router utilizes dual active firewalls (SPI and NAT) to prevent potential attacks from across the Internet.
Configuration Diagram
To share the broadband Internet connection, you need to connect this D Link router wireless to the DSL modem or DCM-202 cable modem. In addition, this D Link router wireless includes a Quality of Service (QoS) engine that keeps digital phone calls (VoIP) and online gaming smooth and responsive, providing a better Internet experience. With this QoS wireless Internet environment, you can make free unlimited calls to Skype accounts all over the world using Wi-Fi phone such as Belkin Skype phone or Netgear Wi-Fi phone.
D Link Router Wireless DIR-855 Diagram
DIR-855 Wireless Router supports Gigabit Switch (4 RJ-45 ports) you can use for “wired” high speed connection to the desktops which have Gigabit NIC. You can use this desktop as Windows media center, from this desktop you can stream your High Definition video, music, and photo library to your flat-screen HDTV via windows media center extender. Or from this high speed Gigabit connection desktop to the router, you can stream your HD video to your XBOX 360 game console which also can be use to integrate music, movies, photos and TV choices into game scenarios. This router is a dual-band router, so you can play online games wirelessly using 5 GHz band with less interference from other home wireless appliances such as cordless phones that uses 2.4 GHz band.
DIR-855 Wireless Router can pass through VPN sessions with multiple and concurrent IPSec and PPTP sessions, to allow users connect remotely via Internet securely to access corporate networks.
Other features from DIR-855 D Link Router Wireless:
- You can configure content Filtering based on MAC Address, URL, and/or Domain Name for parental control.
- You can also configure Filter Scheduling – set the filter to be active as time scheduled, by days, time, hours, or minutes.
- User-friendly Setup Wizard – Through its easy-to-use Web-based user interface, the DIR-855 Wireless Router lets you control within minutes what information is accessible to those on the wireless network, whether from the Internet or from your company’s server.
Having a wireless environment at home you need to make sure that you connect securely using wireless security standards such as the latest WPA/WPA2 encryption. And always update the windows security patches in a regular basis (usually if you don’t modify the windows update setting, this will automatically update your windows when you connect to the internet) and protect with antivirus protection software.
If you like a complete portability device – complete solutions in one box device for wireless router, storage, digital photo frame, switch, consider this award winning DIR-685 D-Link storage router.
See also:
- Some of best wireless home routers
- DAP-1350 Wireless access point router by D-Link
- XBOX Wireless routers compatible
- DAP-1360 Wireless range extender by D-Link
- How to build a secure wireless network
