D-Link is in the process of pulling back a small number of its long-awaited DIR-855 dual-band draft 802.11n routers to fix an assembly error.
D-Link Director of Marketing Dan Kelly responded quickly to our query about a posting on the BroadbandReports.com D-Link forum, with the following statement:
You can get your old X10 and new Z-Wave devices working in harmony. This How To uses an ELK M1G to bridge the gap.
It has been SmallNetBuilder’s policy to not publish articles written by vendors. The reason is that most vendor-supplied articles are basically advertising in a different format. But sometimes the articles really are informative, even though they carry a built-in bias toward the author’s company’s product. So I’m thinking of trying this out. These articles will … Read more
Contest #15 has ended. The winner of the D-Link EBR-2310 Ethernet Broadband Router and D-Link DGS-2208 8-Port 10/100/1000 Desktop Switch is James Irvin with the correct answer of 20. Congratulations, James!
One of the features I’ve seen in newer small network routers is the inclusion
of a packet sniffer/capture/trace tool within the diagnostic menus of the device.
Routers I’ve recently tested with this functionality include the SonicWall TZ190W,
D-Link DFLCPG310, and Netgear’s newly released
FVX538 and FVS336G.
In each case, these devices have the ability to capture packets on a specific
WAN port and/or on the LAN interface. Some of these routers have more sophisticated
filtering capabilities than the other, but they all seem to have the same basic
functionality of capturing packets.
Digi International today introduced the ConnectPort X2 ZigBee-to-IP Gateway. The product is a wireless gateway “about the size of a deck of cards” that links ZigBee/802.15.4 device networks with IP networks over Wi-Fi or Ethernet connections. The ConnectPort X2 is available in two configurations: ZigBee-to-Wi-Fi; or ZigBee-to-Ethernet. Both models are housed in industrial-grade metal enclosures. … Read more
Netgear today announced the availability of a residential gateway with integrated 3G "femtocell" cellular base station.
The DVG834GH Femtocell Voice Gateway incorporates an ADSL2+ modem, router with SPI+NAT firewall, 10/100 switch, 802.11g wireless access point, Voice over-IP (VoIP) and 3G "ZoneGate" femtocell technology from Ubiquisys Ltd.
Buffalo’s first dual-drive NAS features disappointing performance and a not-so-straightforward RAID recovery process.
The ZigBee Alliance today announced the public availability of the latest version of the ZigBee Specification and the certification of the newest ZigBee Golden Unit platforms which implement the ZigBee PRO Feature Set. The new Golden Units are available from Ember, Texas Instruments and Airbee Wireless. These units have passed independent testing conducted by NTS … Read more
We kick off our new Home Control section with a How To for using a Harmony 890 to control Z-wave devices.
I’m always thinking about ways to better serve existing readers and attract new ones and two thoughts have been rumbling around in my head.
SmallNetBuilder isn’t particularly helpful to networking newbies or people who have no interest in becoming networking experts. This has been by design, since I have felt that there were plenty of other places where this information could be found.
But the past few years seem to have thinned the herd of sites and blogs covering networking in general and small networks in particular and I see the need to change.
Apposite Technologies has announced the release of the Linktropy Mini, a portable, low cost version of its Linktropy WAN emulator. The Linktropy Mini emulates link bandwidth, delay, jitter, packet loss, and other basic network impairments on up to 100 Mbps bi-directional network links. The Mini measures only 11″ W x 7″ D x 1.75″ H … Read more
