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Wireless router for travel purpose

Travel routers are available in plenty in the market. What we will look for is useful with the basic tasks. The new Belkin F5D7233 Travel Router has the price of $59.99. The price is quite low. It has the lowest price among the available travel routers of the range 801.00b/g. it’s small in size and operates well. It has great similarity with D-Link. There are similar features like having USB cable that is used to get power from the laptop instead of power sourced from external supply. The suspect is the reference design for the two products are same. Belkin gets credit in the department of user interface. It has a superb Windows setup utility to guide you through each step and mode and also comes with a manual with complete references.

This device is so small it literally fits into your palm. It is just 3.2 by 2.4 inches. The device is really lightweight. It weighs only 1.6 ounces. The device is handy and easy to carry around. Even when the device is packed with its box it is quite small. So you can just put it in a pocket of the laptop bag. In the front there is LED indicators and in the rear ports for Ethernet and power and the mode switch. To start with the device, you have to put the switch and plug the device with your broadband source. And then connect it to your laptop. That is all you have to do to get connected to Internet. If you need to make any type if changes to the settings, you can just use the setup utility to make the adjustments. The setup utility is made for windows only. But the device can be used with Mac and Linux as well. In this case no guided setup is available but you can get help from the reference manual (the printed one). It has a clear saying about what you have to do.

The Belkin supports to have encryption of Wi-Fi protocols and also the latest ones. It also has features like to allow VPN pass through for corporate networks. WPA radius server is also available in adaptor mode.

Firewall is off in the access point mode, so that you can plug it into any wired network where a router already exists. This type of situation occurs when you are in a hotel room. You have to go through the manual thoroughly to find out what to do in these types of cases. Some hotels charge according to the MAC address of device that is used. If you don’t follow the instructions closely you may get charged double. To use the adaptor mode you have to switch in adaptor mode.

The performance of this router is standard for the range travel routers. The range is quite limited. But it is a plus point for the hotel rooms. Since someone snooping in your network won’t be welcomed by you. The overall combination of price, feature and performance is great for this Belkin Travel Router.

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Wireless Broadband service by BT

British Telecom (BT) serves in almost the whole United Kingdom with their marvelous broadband features. BT is dedicated to supply high speed net connection to home and corporate in UK. Being the biggest broadband supplier of UK, BT has got some unique features in their broadband services. One of them being the offering of three BT internet products, the wireless service is also not left too behind in the discussion.

BT features some key aspects of broadband service that one can ever desire of. Its offers include unlimited bandwidth assurance, different software for internet security, free webspace and email system, and most importantly, wireless broadband support. BT wireless internet is available on a large scale and in different variety and they are installable in both home and office. The connection type depends on the type of the user. A home installation does not necessitates anything else than simply a router. But in large corporate office or industrial zones more advanced solutions are required. Starting from radio link to an entire server installation, anything may come of necessity to the varied users.

BT in contrast with other minor broadband service provider, offer some value added services to the clients. They include the best quality online security system, cheap internet phone calls and not so surprisingly, a download speed of 8 Mbps. If you are using the wireless broadband service, you are not to be dispatched by this value packs as well. In fact, wireless BT internet makes it an even smoother experience compared to your downloading time spent sitting in a café. Another claiming feature is that BT is in line to offering total broadband solution to the home clients. Might that be there is a number of people who are still using dial up connection, the greater section of the community have accepted BT as their broadband service provider. The BT home hub have greatly enriched the service pack of BT that offers highest security, more broadband features and cheap internet phone calls.

All these you can get under two or three packages suiting to your own need and the amount and variety of use. You are offered to order under the range from $22 to $313, depending on the facilities and contract matters. Speeds and monthly charges also vary with the different customer demand and requirements. However, BT sometimes offers reduced or free tariffs on certain occasion and festivals.

Being one of the leading merchants in the UK broadband industry, British Telecom is ever reluctant to keep providing the subscribers with newer forms of facilities and technological support. All the unique features that have been lied down in the upper discussion confirms the competitiveness and individuality of British Telecom.

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Internet and TV from 3 mobile in UK

3, which is 3G mobile broadband suppliers leader in the world and award-wining company (won the award for slingbox) have announced together they will provide the consumers the facility of home TV channel on their handset along with the mobile broadband service. The declaration has come at the end of the last year on Hutchison Whampoa’s international launch program of the X-Series from 3. The new series promises to provide full strength of the mobile broadband which will unveil the new aspects of mobile internet. For the high demand of award-wining device named slingbox is popular demand of the consumers and the emerging want mobile TV impulse Sling to make collaboration with a leading mobile operator. Their joint effort will allow the consumers exclusive personalized one-to-one experience of mobile TV. The brand-new X-Series from 3, assure its consumers that they will fully satisfy while using internet with 3’s new mobile broadband handsets. Not only this. With the help of Slingbox, the consumers will have their exclusive experience while watching home TV channels on their mobile which previously only available on their home TV. The SlingPlayer Mobile TV service will be available to those who will buy X-Series hand set by 3 along with Slingbox. 3 has said that this service will exclusively available first in the UK from 1^st on December, 2006 and in world market in beginning of 2007. the home TV experience on the SlingPlayer Mobile is possible though advanced 3G mobile network currently blooming in UK. Now home TV program is viewable in X-Series mobiles with the help of famous Slingbox and compatible SlingPlayer Mobile software which is pre-installed in two available handsets like Nokia N73 and Sony Ericsson W950i.these Mobiles will allow customers to control their TV recorder at home to watch recorded shows even pause or rewind live TV or to record when they are away from home through the new set. The combination of TV and broadband internet in mobile is possible through popular product the “Slingbox”. The Slingbox actually redirects the TV steam from a cable connection even from satellite receiver situated at any place in the globe to the mobile. Sling Media is vowed to support the 3 mobile consumers with Slingbox and SlingPlayer Mobile technical support in UK. The same support will be available in Scandinavia by its partner. Sling Media is also willing to support technically the 3 costumers

In Hong Kong though its partner Synergy Technologies. The new exclusive TV-Internet service provided by the two famous companies are previously well-known for their service and product.3 mobile is not only famous in UK but also in many parts of the world like Australia. The company has provided its consumers easy internet access and browse, which helped to blossom the UK broadband services.