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Wireless-N Gigabit Router
Incredible coverage and performance for your Connected Home
The Wireless-N Gigabit Router is really three
devices in one box. First, there's the Wireless Access Point, which lets you
connect to the network without wires. There's also a built-in 4-port full-duplex
Gigabit Switch to connect your wired-Ethernet devices together. Finally, the
Router function ties it all together and lets your whole network share a
high-speed cable or DSL Internet connection.
The Access Point built into the Router uses the
very latest wireless networking technology, Wireless-N (draft 802.11n). By
overlaying the signals of multiple radios, Wireless-N's "Multiple In, Multiple
Out" (MIMO) technology multiplies the effective data rate. Unlike ordinary
wireless networking technologies that are confused by signal reflections, MIMO
actually uses these reflections to increase the range and reduce "dead spots" in
the wireless coverage area. The robust signal travels farther, maintaining
wireless connections much farther than standard Wireless-G.
With Wireless-N, the farther away you are, the
more speed advantage you get. It works great with standard Wireless-G and -B
equipment, but when both ends of the wireless link are Wireless-N, the router
can increase the throughput even more by using twice as much radio band,
yielding speeds far faster than standard Wireless-G. But unlike other
speed-enhanced technologies, Wireless-N can dynamically enable this double-speed
mode for Wireless-N devices, while still connecting to other wireless devices at
their respective fastest speeds. In congested areas, the "good neighbor" mode
ensures that the Router checks for other wireless devices in the area before
gobbling up the radio band.
To help protect your data and privacy, the
Router can encode all wireless transmissions with industrial-strength 256-bit
encryption. It can serve as your network's DHCP Server, has a powerful SPI
firewall to protect your PCs against intruders and most known Internet attacks,
and supports VPN pass-through. Configuration is a snap with the web
browser-based configuration utility.
The incredible speed of Wireless-N makes it
ideal for media-centric applications like streaming video, gaming, and Voice
over IP telephony, and gives you plenty of headroom to run multiple
media-intense data streams through the network at the same time, with no
degradation in performance. With the Linksys Wireless-N Gigabit Router at the
center of your home or office network, you can share a high-speed Internet
connection, files, printers, and multi-player games, and run media-intensive
applications at faster than 10/100 wired network speeds, without the hassle of
stringing wires!
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