Linksys WRT160N

Linksys WRT160N

The Linksys WRT160N is known as the Ultra RangePlus Wireless-N Broadband Router for wireless coverage in homes and offices. The device comes in one colour, black.

Features

The Ultra RangePlus Wireless-N Broadband Router is actually a 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 10/100 Switch to connect your wired-Ethernet devices together. Finally, the Router function ties it all together and lets the user’s whole network shares a high-speed cable or DSL Internet connection. The Access Point built into the Router uses latest wireless networking technology called Wireless-N (draft 802.11n).Besides that, the Wireless-N’s "Multiple In, Multiple Out" (MIMO) technology multiplies the effective data rate to increases the range of the internet connection and reduces “dead spots" in the wireless coverage area. In close areas, the "good neighbor" mode ensures that the Router checks for other wireless devices in the area before receiving the signal up the radio band and vice versa. To help protect user data and privacy, the Router can encode wireless transmissions with 256-bit encryption. For a wireless network’s DHCP Server, the SPI firewall can protect the PC against trespasser from internet attacks with the support of VPN pass-through. Moreover, the device allows firewall configuration with the web browser-based configuration utility. The speed of Wireless-N makes it ideal for media-centric applications like streaming video, gaming, and voice over IP telephony, to provide multiple media-intense data streams through the network at the same time, without experiencing an problems in the connection performance. Weighing in at 13.4 oz, the Linksys WRT160N operates with the Microsoft Windows XP, Microsoft Windows Vista system. With the Linksys Wireless-N Broadband Router at home or office network, this device can help users to share a high-speed Internet connection, files, printers, and multi-player games, and run media-intensive applications at high speeds.