SmogHog
08-24-2011, 06:36 PM
There's professional grade, and then there's consumer grade. And then there's ZyXEL (http://hothardware.com/Tags/zyxel.aspx), which seems to strike a nice balance between the two. The high-end networking company just revealed their new NBG5715 dual-band wireless router, a "supercharged gateway" that doubles performance by creating two separate, concurrent networks. This enables consumers to browse the Internet over the standard 2.4 GHz band, while high-bandwidth, low-latency activities, such as streaming Internet movies or playing lag-free games online, can be performed over the 5 GHz band. The router also uniquely features two USB ports to accommodate sharing both a printer and a storage device over the network.
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It's capable of transfer rates up to 450Mbps simultaneously on both 2.4 GHz and 5 GHz radio bands. This design offers power users maximum flexibility in planning a high-performance home network. It's also ideal for families with home offices who can now separate business and home network on different frequency bands. You'll also get two built-in NetUSB ports as well as SmartRange technology, which pinpoints wireless clients like laptops and tablets and transmits directly to them. Further enhanced with four Gigabit Ethernet ports, 5 VPN tunnels for home office users and a web interface, the router is certainly no slouch.
And it shows. It's currently available nationwide, but it'll set you back $250.
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It's capable of transfer rates up to 450Mbps simultaneously on both 2.4 GHz and 5 GHz radio bands. This design offers power users maximum flexibility in planning a high-performance home network. It's also ideal for families with home offices who can now separate business and home network on different frequency bands. You'll also get two built-in NetUSB ports as well as SmartRange technology, which pinpoints wireless clients like laptops and tablets and transmits directly to them. Further enhanced with four Gigabit Ethernet ports, 5 VPN tunnels for home office users and a web interface, the router is certainly no slouch.
And it shows. It's currently available nationwide, but it'll set you back $250.