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Mobile Industry Review: Get a WiFi router with built-in USB dongle support

  • Kip Hakes · 1 year ago
    Oooooh want one!
  • MarkW · 1 year ago
    And now I've gone and ordered it! Of course I wouldn't have needed it if I'd unplugged the (now fried) one before the storms hit last night.... Still, great excuse for a new toy!
  • Ewan · 1 year ago
    Let us know how you get on with it, Mark?
  • MarkW · 1 year ago
    Be my pleasure, Ewan.
  • TerenceEden · 1 year ago
    There are several brilliant things about this router.
    You can run PTSN and VoIP through the same phones! VoIP via DECT FTW :-)
    The USB port will run a printer as well as a 3G dongle or an N70.
    Wonder if it will work with a USB hub?

    Nice
  • DanLane · 1 year ago
    No, it's printer or 3g functionality, not both simultanously :(
  • DanLane · 1 year ago
    I've been using this very same router since it came out a few months ago... Love it, great bit of kit!
  • Tim · 1 year ago
    Every time I turned the corner to my office in London and saw a BT van (clumsy engineers), or a small puddle in the road, I knew that the office SDSL line would be killed for days on end (aluminium cabling is the worst for cracking after 30 years under the road). A tree was in the way of an early WiMAX type service, pesky leaves, so this would have been ideal.
    So ideal in fact, I bought one 9 months ago for a mate's business and it's been absolutely diamond. With the added advantage of a VPN server inbuilt and dual failover ADSL2+ connections at 20Mbps at £100 or so quid.
    Just waiting for my DLink to curl up it's toes so I can buy another.
  • Tim · 1 year ago
    PS. The second connection can either be Ethernet (linked to a cable or ADSL2+ modem) or the USB dongle. You can also load share between the two. I also updated the firmware recently as there were a few issues with initial VPN connectivity.
  • Mike42 · 1 year ago
    ...Huawei do a battery-powered one...
  • AJ · 1 year ago
    Hey - I posted a comment about this ages ago. Hmmm.
  • Ewan · 1 year ago
    Did we miss it, AJ? I think I must have!
  • AJ · 1 year ago
    Used the search box, tried all sorts of keyword combos but...nothing. Maybe I was thinking of another site but I dont really do any other tech sites on the whole.

    If I hadnt screwed up my disqus registration somehow maybe I could have searched that way.
  • Dean Bubley · 1 year ago
    It's a bit similar to a product Vodafone launched in Italy recently, called the Vodafone Station, and made by Huawei - http://www.telecomsitaly.com/2008/05/fmc_servic...

    I blogged about it a couple of months back
    http://disruptivewireless.blogspot.com/2008/05/...

    I've also had discussions with another vendor back in March, who mentioned much the same thing in their pipeline.

    Dean
  • adsl viettel · 3 months ago
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  • Ewan · 3 months ago
    What is the best typo to read with?

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  • DoctorPsi · 2 months ago
    Be very careful with a WiFi router because your connection can be intercepted. Please setup your security as good as possible.
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    Business Grade VoIP
  • kiran · 3 weeks ago
    i have usb plug pen drive like thing to use internet but how can i connect wifi router to tht, will thr be a usb port