{"id":86528,"date":"1999-12-31T00:43:00","date_gmt":"1999-12-30T13:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/smartoffice.com.au\/the-route-to-success\/"},"modified":"1999-12-31T00:43:00","modified_gmt":"1999-12-30T13:43:00","slug":"the-route-to-success","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.strixdevelopment.net\/smartoffice\/1999\/12\/31\/the-route-to-success\/","title":{"rendered":"The Route To Success"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Getting online while not getting trapped to the wall socket in your hotel room, once meant lugging around a full-size router with your laptop. But no more.<P>There&#8217;s now an entire catalogue of tiny &#8216;travel&#8217; routers from Netgear, 3Com, SMC and this, the DWL-G730AP, is the smallest yet. It&#8217;s smaller than a deck of playing cards, yet creating a secure 802.11g connection with it is certainly no game of poker.<BR>This is a surprisingly decent router and access point. It&#8217;s all firewalled up, has a wired Ethernet port as well as wireless (not all travel routers have this), and it can even be powered through a USB connection to your PC. As a router with a LAN port, you could also, of course, connect a VoIP device &#8211; a fine solution to avoiding those ridiculous hotel phone bills. Add the half-decent configuration tools, and this is as simple to configure as routers get. <BR>Nothing&#8217;s been compromised in terms of protection either. You&#8217;ve got all the usual mechanisms to keep out hackers and viruses: SPI firewall, port forwarding, domain blocking and a demilitarised zone between you and the enemy (that&#8217;s used for placing your own tanks if you have multiple computers connecting to the router).<BR>And that&#8217;s not all. The simple configuration interface gives you options <BR>to limit transmission range and to assign trigger ports (which is useful for gaming). While in client mode it can be used to connect everything from PlayStations to network printers. <BR>The only let down of the D-Link is its range. About 20 metres away in a line of sight, throughput speeds had already fallen to around 3Mbps when we put it to test. But unless you&#8217;re staying in the two-storey rooms at the Burj al Arab in Dubai, this is still an adequate range for most hotel rooms and other travel uses.<BR>Crikey, it even comes complete with a lovely leather travel case. Bargain.<\/P><P>_________________________________________________<\/P><P><STRONG>D-Link&nbsp;Airplus-G | $179.95 |<\/STRONG> <IMG src=\"http:\/\/smartoffice.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/articleimages\/emoticons\/star_full.gif\" align=absMiddle><IMG src=\"http:\/\/smartoffice.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/articleimages\/emoticons\/star_full.gif\" align=absMiddle><IMG src=\"http:\/\/smartoffice.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/articleimages\/emoticons\/star_full.gif\" align=absMiddle><IMG src=\"http:\/\/smartoffice.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/articleimages\/emoticons\/star_full.gif\" align=absMiddle><IMG src=\"http:\/\/smartoffice.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/articleimages\/emoticons\/star_empty.gif\" align=absMiddle><BR><STRONG>For:<\/STRONG> Usability, security, portability, price &#8211; just about everything really.<\/P><P><STRONG>Against: <\/STRONG>Short transmission range, although adequate for most hotel rooms.<\/P><P><STRONG>Verdict: <\/STRONG>Small yet perfectly formed. 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