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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.