Wireless Router

The Wireless Router works perfectly on the wired PC but having problems with the wireless laptop. With the Wireless Router, a network of home or small business users can connect to one digital subscriber line (DSL) or cable high-speed Internet connection. The wireless Ethernet is transported on the license-free 2.4 GHz to 2.5 GHz direct sequence spread spectrum.

The Wireless Router includes extensive administrator functions to control the content downloaded from the Internet and protect individual users from hacker intrusions, using a 128-bit wired equivalent privacy (WEP) and configurable firewall that also uses network address translation (NAT) routing to hide individual IP addresses.

Wireless Routers with Internet connection sharing, networking and firewall features are an alternative to regular hard wired routers or networking software. There are few important points which you should keep in your mind while dealing with Wireless Router.

• Security: Wireless routers are not as secure as hard wired. If you want wireless and security, always read the good quality and reliable material and be prepared to spend some time setting up the security features of your wireless network.
• Testing: We recommend that you test the firewall features of a router after installation with a service like the Security Space desktop audit.
• Firmware: Router vendors offer updates for their firmware to add new features and to resolve problems found by their customers.
• Prices: Always confirm the prices and compare the functionalities as there is remarkable difference in the most Wireless Router available in the market.

The Wireless Router also lets administrators log the Web browsing activities of all users and ban email from undesirable email addresses, cutting down on the amount of spam that makes its way into user email boxes.

The distinguishing feature of a Wireless Router is that it typically has a NAT firewall and DHCP unit. This is so that one IP address can be shared among many computers, i.e. sharing one DSL line among many family members. So there's one IP address on the WAN side and many on the LAN side. NAT isn't needed at UCI since each computer can have its own IP address and you don't have to deal with port forwarding and other mumbo jumbo. Routers can cause partial network outages if misconfigured so don't bring one if you don't know how to configure it.

The LAN and WLAN (Wireless LAN) components of a typical Wireless Router are on the same segment and can talk to each other. Most of the companies use this simple trick to configure the router as an access point by disabling DHCP and not using the WAN port or the NAT firewall.