Routers

D-Link’s DGL 4500 OLED-equipped gaming router that we had a hands on with last month is now selling for $240 at the D-Link store. [D-Link] https://gizmodo.com/hands-on-with-d-links-dgl-4500-oled-screen-gaming-route-304176

Linksys Outs Long Awaited WRT600N Router and WPC600N PC Card for Notebooks

It’s been a long time in the making, but Linksys is finally officially pulling the shroud off of the Ultra RangePlus line, including its dual-band draft-N/A/B/G router, the $280 WRT600N, and its $100 PC-card companion, WPC600N. The highlights: • Two bands means traditional products can connect on the crowded 2.4GHz network while newer high-bandwidth products…

Hands On New Cisco Linksys Wireless-N Media Center Extenders (Plus: Some Tasty New N-Friendly Toys)

You may have heard about the new Media Center Extenders from Cisco’s Linksys division. The DMA2200 shown above is a high-def MCE with 1080p-upscaling DVD player and Dual-Band Wireless-N, priced at $350. The smaller $300 DMA2100 MCE is geared for bedrooms and kitchens, places where you’re going to want less clutter, though to be honest,…

Hands on with D-Link’s DGL 4500 OLED Screen Gaming Router

We got a chance to play around with D-Link’s recently leaked DGL 4500 gaming router today in NYC at ShowStoppers, a warmup to this week’s DigitalLife expo. The goal is a more interactive interface on the face of the router, a recent trend shown by Belkin and others. The router is N based, like any…

Linksys RangePlus Extends your Wireless Network Range

Linksys has new home networking gear out today &mdash including the WRT100, a wireless router that uses MIMO (multiple input, multiple output) technology, and comes with Linksys’ Easy Link Advisors, which apparently “takes the consumer on an uncomplicated, illustrated journey toward secure home network setup.” And there’s more than just a router in the RangePlus…

Cradlepoint CTR-350 Spreads the Broadband from Cellphone to Wi-Fi

You never know when you might want to spread your connectivity love, and that’s why this Cradlepoint CTR-350 travel router might be able to keep you and all your buddies online when nothing else will. If your broadband-enabled cellphone can connect, then this little black box can turn that connection into a Wi-Fi hotspot. This…

D-Link DIR-660 Limited Edition 802.11n Router Reviewed (Verdict: Good Looking, Great Speeds, Lousy Range)

D-Link’s all white DIR-660 Limited Edition Wireless N router looks great on the outside, and performs decently on the…outside. There’s MIMO, which is fantastic, along with an OLED display on the top for status updates, but an old Netgear G router i4u tested with had better range than the 660 even in N mode. Speeds…

Cisco Killing off Linksys Brand, All Your Router Are Belong to Cisco

Those of you with any brand loyalty to Linksys will shed a tear at Cisco’s announcement to kill off the Linksys name entirely. The only reason Cisco kept the name after they bought out the smaller company was for brand recognition in the US (Linksys was much better known among consumers). The big C has…

Belkin N1 Vision Router Makes 802.11n Sexier Than Ever With Built-In Screen

Belkin’s latest N1 series router, the N1 Vision, isn’t just hands-down the smokiest 802.11n draft 2.0 router we’ve seen—it tries to one-up everyone else with a built-in LCD screen that displays info ranging from a bandwidth speedometer to the number of neighbors leeching your internet. At $200, the sexiness doesn’t come cheap, but it can…

Free Fonero Routers Are Overheating, Melting

Remember those free routers by Fonero? These routers, 10,000 of which were sent out for free recently, are overheating and some actually melting. This video is of a particularly monotone man and his melting Fon experience. It is also noted that he isn’t the only one dealing with some hot fon problems. A lot of…

Hacking the FON Wi-Fi Router

Remember those 10,000 Fon routers that were given away? They should be arriving at your home soon (at least mine did, today) and what better to do than crack her open and start modding away. https://gizmodo.com/10-000-free-fon-wifi-routers-and-a-review-go-234397 Out of the box the foneros wireless router has Telnet and SSH turned off. By accessing the buit in…

New Parent Substitute Available: XGate Router

Coincidentally dropping with a new study showing more kids are peeping boobies online the XGate router plays off of the paranoia that everyone on MySpace is a pedophile, aiming to look over your kids’ shoulders so you don’t have to. One part standard router and one part parent-that-you-aren’t, it’s “equipped with proprietary algorithms and databases…

Etri Wi-Fi Router Has Half-Mile Range, Beaucoups Bandwidth

We’re looking at our Linksys Wi-Fi router with disdain now that we’ve discovered how weak it is compared to this Etri Wi-Fi mofo. Besides the Etri router’s awesome 240Mbps speed, it has a range far beyond ordinary Wi-Fi, cranking out signals at a claimed range of 100m to 1km. Sheesh. Our Linksys can barely get…

Vonage Router Gets Gussied Up by Frog Design

VoIP provider Vonage made friends with hipster frog design inc., resulting in this pleasing router design that just might someday make it out of the basement and server closet and onto the desktop. It looks awfully purdy, plus it’s designed to be more durable, too. Vonage wouldn’t say when we might be seeing such a…

Dealzmodo: $12.99 Linksys Wireless-G Travel Router

Buy.com has this travel router for $12.99. This router features SpeedBooster, so no matter where you are at, the Intertubes should be flowing strong. This miniature router normally goes for $82.99 at Buy.com, but they have a $50 mail-in-rebate. Tack on another $20 off if you use Google Checkout and this router is only $12.99…

California Law Passes, Requires Routers to Come with Security Warning

A California bill was passed today requiring all Wi-Fi routers sold in the state of California to come with a prominent warning about Wi-Fi security and the dangers of having an unsecured wireless network. Manufacturers will have the option of including a security warning in the software setup or physically including a warning sticker on…

Solar-Powered Wi-Fi

The $100 laptop project is making waves in lesser-developed countries, but what about Internet access? Come on, even the poorest folks enjoy sick fetish porn from time to time. Enter Green Wi-Fi. This is a non-profit organization that is seeking to provide wireless internet access to poorer countries. These access points are simply a solar…

Wi-Fi Crusaders: $5 Routers for All

FON is a Spanish start-up company with global Wi-Fi in its sights. They have acquired 1 million wireless Cisco-Linksys and Buffalo routers and will subsidize them for $5 each. They are doing this to turn home Wi-Fi networks into hotspots for everyone to enjoy. Big name Internet superstars such as Google and Skype have backed…

802.11 pre-N Routers Running Into Issues

Not only are most of the the pre-N and draft-N routers on the shelves today going to be incompatible with the final spec, they’re incompatible with 802.11b/g products (and with each other). Three chipsets are on the market today that are being used in these N routers: Airgo, Broadcom and Marvell. In tests, Airgo received…

Belkin 802.11n N1 Router

Now that we roundly panned 802.11n, we got word of yet another pre-release device, the N1. The N1 should have a throughput of up to 150MBps and “network status indicator LEDs,” which probably aren’t as great as they sound. Should be available June 2006. Price unknown. https://gizmodo.com/wireless-802-11n-questions-is-it-time-to-upgrade-169609 Belkin Page [Belkin]