By now everyone has heard of wardriving, or maybe even Warflying. Wardrivers find wireless access points (WAPs) by driving around and using laptops with wireless cards. They typically track the WAPs using free and simple programs such as NetStumbler for Windows or Kismet for Linux.
We take a second look at XIMETA’s inexpensive alternative for Networked storage and review the NetDisk Office. XIMETA has made some improvements in its NDAS technology, but you may still be faced with an unacceptable tradeoff in order keep more money in your wallet.
Updated PDA manufacturers have been previously caught “optimistically” specing both available memory and the number of screen colors really available in their products. This NeedToKnow shows that they also have some work to do to convey to prospective buyers the wireless speeds that their 802.11b-enabled products can really deliver. We found some surprisingly slow products, but also some that deliver what you’d expect from a device with WiFi inside.
Although NETGEAR was the first to launch the opening salvo in the tri-mode / dual-band wireless LAN wars, its WG602 54Mbps Wireless Access Point that it announced a few months ago represents the first-available draft-802.11g Access Point shipped by the company. It made its way into the SmallNetBuilder Test Lab pretty quickly, and our first-available review will give you our usual in-depth report.
Simply put, ASUS’ SL1000 is one hell of a powerful little router and our test bench is still smoking! But it has a user interface that only true networking techies can love. ASUS agrees on this last point so it’ll be awhile before you can buy it, but you can at least read about it now.
Pocket-sized WiFi network detectors may seem like a dumb idea at first. But if the size and features are right, they can be a real time-saver for seeing whether it’s worth it to pull out the ol’ notebook. PCTEL’s WiFi Seeker seems to succeed where previous devices have failed. Read our Quick View review and see if you agree!
We welcome Scott Sidel with his first review for us. Scott takes a detailed look at Linksys’ RV082, its first router aimed squarely at the small business market.
How much would you pay for a four-point SPI router with 802.11g access point, USB print server and built-in VPN endpoint? If you think about $200 is too much, would you change your mind if it handled LAN-LAN and Remote-LAN PPTP, IPsec and L2TP VPN tunnels on both the wired and wireless sides? And how about if it threw in VLAN and Bandwidth control? Come read our review to see how Draytek’s Vigor 2900g Broadband Security Router does it all.
The empire strikes back in the “enhanced” 802.11g wars! Linksys has introduced its first SpeedBooster products fueled by Broadcom’s Afterburner technology. We rushed the WRT54GS Wireless-G Router with SpeedBooster onto our test bench and have the first-available in-depth review. How does Afterburner stack up against Super-G? Does more money really buy you more performance? All this and more will be revealed…
Mirra’s Personal Server recently had its first major feature upgrade. We found that the new version 1.1 has some welcome feature adds and bug fixes. But it still doesn’t do what you’d think a file server – personal or not – should do.
Until now, the one cable that hasn’t been pressed into service to solve networking problems is the one carrying your cable or satellite TV signal around your home. Corinex’ CableLAN adapter changes that, providing the first IP-over-coax networking solution that can handle networks both large and small.
Does a product that combines 120GB of networked storage with a PPTP/IPsec VPN endpoint router for about $350 sound like a good deal? We thought it might, but Tritton’s All-in-one Server Appliance (ASAP) and ioGEAR’s Broadband Office Storage Server(BOSS) share what we think is a fatal flaw that should make you think at least twice before you buy.
