Hawking Dual WAN Firewall Router w/4-Port Switch Review
Dual Ethernet WAN SPI-based router. Inexpensive alternative to Symantec VPN 200, but without dialup/ISDN backup ports, and less sophisticated load balancing and failover.
Tim Higgins
SMC7004VWBR 2.4GHz Wireless Cable/DSL Broadband Router Review
802.11b wireless version of new-generation Barricade (SMC7004VBR)
D-Link DI-604 ExpressEtherNetwork 4 Port Broadband Router Review
Fast 4 port 10/100 switched broadband router with SPI-based firewall & street price around $40.
SMC7004VBR Barricade Cable/DSL Broadband Router Review
New version of popular Barricade router with SPI based firewall, but no printserver or dial-up WAN support
Netgear FVS318 ProSafe VPN Firewall Review
Netgear's FVS318 is an 8 port SPI based router with built-in IPsec endpoint for up to 8 tunnels. Also has content filtering and email hack alerts.
How We Test 802.11a Wireless Products
Our test procedure for 802.11a wireless products.
How We Test 802.11b and 11g Wireless LAN Products – Revision 1
This is the description of the revised wireless test method used between October 1, 2003 and November 2005.
How We Test 802.11b and 11g Wireless LAN Products – Original Method
This is the description of our original wireless test method.
Fast Network Adapters – What’s Holding You Back?
One of the "lessons learned" from our testing of higher speed (>10Mbps) network adapters is that you don't always get what you think you're getting, i.e. higher network speed. Things that didn't matter at lower network speeds come into play when using products such as 100Mbps Ethernet adapters and even the newer 802.11a wireless network adapters.
Linksys Instant PowerLine EtherFast 10/100 Bridge
Review of Linksys' PLEBR10 HomePlug compatible power line to Ethernet Bridge
Linksys BEFVP41 EtherFast Cable/DSL VPN Router
The past few months have seen a number of introductions of consumer priced routers with built-in VPN Endpoints. Although this kind of product has been around for awhile, they've tended to be pretty expensive ($500 and up) and out of the range of most folks (unless their company was footing the bill!). So how can a company come along and do the same thing for under $150? Well, that's what I wondered, too, so I took a pair of Linksys BEFVP41's into the lab and had at 'em. You can see how they did in the resulting review.