Made for the MacBook: Belkin N-1 Vision

Generally, this thing is not just for computers and notebooks to Apple, but also for any PC at all. After all, today I'll tell you about a strange router with a display. Expensive in Russia, his price could be around ten thousand. For that kind of money? Let us try to understand.

In general,

In the U.S., this unit is worth one hundred and fifty dollars in the box are: the router itself, power supply, Ethernet-cable. American Fork, you must use an adapter. Work in our electricity supply is safe, you can include, without fear of breakage. The very little thing is the stand is very light, thin, entire front panel is covered with lacquer. Fingerprints, dust - all that appears after several minutes of use. Dust is not much, but full of fingerprints. There, on the front panel is fairly large display, the information is visible from afar. On it can be inferred various information:

• Current connection speed (upload, download)
• Time, day, year
• The number of connected wireless devices

In addition, right here is a small menu that allows you to set the guest mode, change the secure connection and so on. Navigate the menu using the joystick, the buttons back and Menu.

It is logical to assume that the presence of the display makes using the device simpler, better, more interesting. I had never seen anything on any such accessories ... Yes, that's just bad luck. See for yourself - like we normally do with your router? Say, bought, brought home, configured, installed somewhere out of sight and all.As a rule, we reiterate our call to the router only if you suddenly lost the connection. Or is something else, not less than the contrary. In everyday life we ​​do not need continually to stare at this thing. Check the speed by using a heap of different services or programs, establish a guest network, you can directly from a laptop, I am guided in this case on the Time Capsule, Extreme. Reviews of these things you can read here.

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Then, well here it costs somewhere in the room or directly on your desktop, all such elegant, beautiful and hoo a Belkin N-1. So what? As soon as you touch the front panel, immediately all the beauty disappears. I have already said - soiled here at fiction. This greatly angers. Besides, is not credible and the weight of the device, a feeling that in the hands of mobile phone or an empty plastic box. Not just once or twice during the test, I accidentally clinged connected to the router cable, it fell ...

Specifications

One of the features Belkin N-1 - support for 802.11n, so wait for her in Russia does not officially have, for understandable reasons. And before I say to recommend this miracle dear readers I am not going about it below. Now let's see what's for performance.

• Link Rate - Up to 300 Mbps in 20/40MHz Channel Mode
• Maximum Users - 253 (LAN), 16 (WLAN)
• Patent Pending LCD - Network Display
• Ports - WAN 1, Gigabit Port LAN - 4 Gigabit Ports
• Range - Up to 1600 ft
• Security - Wi-Fi Protected Setup; WPA, WPA2-Personal, 64-bit/128-bit encryption, Multiple SSID
• Specifications Standards - IEEE 802.11b, IEEE 802.11g, IEEE 802.11n draft *
• VPN Support - PPTP

Everything seems to be nothing, and with a range of all the bad, and proprietary display. But let's have already connected N-1 to the network and see how it works.

Connection

I'll admit honestly: I connect the device and failed. The photograph is a user connection. It is necessary to plug the cable into the modem from the modem to the router from router to the computer and then into your browser to drive routersetup. Another Ethernet-cable, I somehow was not. So I decided to do things differently - to connect the home "The Internet" cable directly to the N-1. As, indeed, set up all the other routers. Done. Then connect via Wi-Fi to the device, hammered routersetup, op field is loaded. Now you only have to fill in the fields you want in the menu and set my favorite Akado. And did it. Began rebooting the device. And has not ended. I had to reboot manually. Only now the laptop does not see the N-1. Enable, disable Wi-Fi on the laptop to work. Page loaded settings, but my only internet I still will not let me ...

Well, I repeated the action a couple of times. Did reset the router. Clambered all settings. And I realized that I have the evening to visit a neighbor. He is wise. Sysadmin work.

Here I am writing these lines only later, after we set up the very Akado on N-1. To this end, had to reset the device and plug in the manner specified in the instructions. To clear my conscience, we reset the once and hooked up N-1 my way. What do you think? Everything went without a hitch, without a hitch. Just a small detail: in my case, we used a Mac, a neighbor we have done for "windsurfing". Strange. I asked his opinion about the display, he said that it is still handy thing is for office and for employees who take care of networking chores. But for the average user display is of no interest. As he said, so I recorded. I can only add that the N-1 I personally only causes rejection.

Conclusions

Ten thousand rubles for it? Or even a hundred and fifty dollars? Guys, buy the best the previous generation Extreme thousand for the six (or five). And do not imagine parte brain. After use and configure N-1 I knew only one thing - if even once and I will write about routers, the only pro model from Apple. It's not snobbery. It's just a reluctance to make fun of themselves.

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