Ok, but not great

It does the job, but compared to even a Buffalo high-speed wireless router, the SMC does not have a very long range nor is the signal strength as good as I was hoping for. Luckily, I am only using this one for surfing the internet which it works just fine for, but my reccommendation is to get a linksys or netgear on sale.

Ok, but not great

It does the job, but compared to even a Buffalo high-speed wireless router, the SMC does not have a very long range nor is the signal strength as good as I was hoping for. Luckily, I am only using this one for surfing the internet which it works just fine for, but my reccommendation is to get a linksys or netgear on sale.

So far so good...

I had experience with earlier SMC Barricade products that all prevented my VPN connections to work, so I couldn't recommend them. I tried this one with the terrific rebates of late just to play with it, and I'm now using it as my primary router!

This router is easy to configure and has been working extremely well. I only played with wireless distances a little bit, and they seem reasonable for a residence. I live in an apartment, so I can only roam so far. I couldn't go too far down the hall before I lost signal, but I think that's due to my cheap PCMCIA card in the laptop I was playing with.

I played with WEP and WPA - both worked fine.

One very cool feature that I've found with more recent routers - they seem to be "plug and play" with the Vonage IP service adapters. I had an old Netgear router and I had to open up the VOIP port numbers for the VOIP adapter. This SMC router (and the Motorola WR850G) don't require any ports to be set up - they seem to be VOIP "aware".

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So far so good...

I had experience with earlier SMC Barricade products that all prevented my VPN connections to work, so I couldn't recommend them. I tried this one with the terrific rebates of late just to play with it, and I'm now using it as my primary router!

This router is easy to configure and has been working extremely well. I only played with wireless distances a little bit, and they seem reasonable for a residence. I live in an apartment, so I can only roam so far. I couldn't go too far down the hall before I lost signal, but I think that's due to my cheap PCMCIA card in the laptop I was playing with.

I played with WEP and WPA - both worked fine.

One very cool feature that I've found with more recent routers - they seem to be "plug and play" with the Vonage IP service adapters. I had an old Netgear router and I had to open up the VOIP port numbers for the VOIP adapter. This SMC router (and the Motorola WR850G) don't require any ports to be set up - they seem to be VOIP "aware".

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Not all features enabled at this time!

This product is very economical when purchased with a rebate, yet, the WDS function only works with WEP or (worse yet) no encryption! The device does not work with WDS and WPA enabled at the same time. SMC advised that it "MIGHT" be fixed in a future firmware update. I've been waiting 5 months for a firmware update, to no avail. Be sure to verify the functionality that you need for your net is actually operating on this device.

Not all features enabled at this time!

This product is very economical when purchased with a rebate, yet, the WDS function only works with WEP or (worse yet) no encryption! The device does not work with WDS and WPA enabled at the same time. SMC advised that it "MIGHT" be fixed in a future firmware update. I've been waiting 5 months for a firmware update, to no avail. Be sure to verify the functionality that you need for your net is actually operating on this device.