NetGear SuperG Wireless Router and Wireless PC Card Review - Wireless Router Features
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The Netgear DG834GT router itself is a space-saving convergence product; designed to bring you a combination of related products in one neat package. Contained within its attractive, although very Mac looking, white exterior are actually five products; an ADSL modem, router, firewall, wireless access point and four-port Ethernet switch.
The ADSL modem has been created to be compatible with the latest high-speed Internet specifications, namely ADSL 2+ which can handle data transfer rates of up to 24Mbps downstream and 3.5Mbps upstream.
The router uses a range of protocols to manage your networking needs including; TCP/IP the Internet standard, VPN for creating secure networks over public wires, RIP the standard (although inefficient) information exchange mechanism for routers, PPPoE & PPPoA for transferring data to/from your LAN to your ADSL carrier, and DNS & DHCP for the translation and dynamic assignment of IP addresses.
The built-in, hardware-based firewall secures your network from outside interference using a combination of Stateful Packet Inspection, a firewall architecture that looks at both the packet header and contents to determine whether or not the packet enters the network, and makes sure all ports are closed unless the are actually requested; intrusion detection and logging so that you have access to details of attempted break-ins; and even has DOS protection to prevent inflicted downtime. It also makes use of NAT short for Network Address Translation, which changes the source IP addresses of packets passing from the internal network to the Internet via the router.
The Netgear WG511T wireless access point does exactly what you would expect it to; it provides the connectivity for the wireless devices connecting to your network. It conforms to 802.11 super G wireless specification that gives you a data transfer speed of up t 108Mbps and an extended range of around 400 feet.
The 4 port switch provides the means for making wired network connections. Connecting your main device, a desktop machine in most home scenarios, via one of the 10/100 auto-sensing LAN ports is advisable as the network connection is automatically configured according to the Universal Plug and Play feature, saving you the time and hassle of worrying about this yourself.
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