mplementing a wireless network in homes or small offices becomes the busiest tasks today among other networking tasks. This is due to the abundance of affordable wireless router and access points available in market today. Wireless networks have apparent benefit - no wires , no hassle a running a network cable to build the infrastructure as opposed to wired network. The easiest method to build a wireless network in home, if you subscribe a cable services, is to install the Surfboard SBG6580 cable modem wireless router.
The surfboard SBG6580 cable modem wireless router is an all- in - one device that includes all the requirements to build a wireless network in home or small offices. To build a wireless network, you require a modem (cable or ADSL), a router / firewall, a switch and a wireless access point.A router / firewall is used mainly for network protection against any threat and help you share a single internet connection, a wireless access point is used to extend the wired network without the wires. The Surfboard SBG6580 integrates the routerd, the DOCSIS 3.0 cable modem and the wireless N access point into a single device, the all-in-one device for all your wireless networking environments.
Cable Modem Function
The surfboard SBG6580 is a DOCSIS 3.0 / EuroDOCSIS 3.0 cable modem a new generation of the DOCSIS / EuroDOCSIS infrastructure which enables channel bonding of up to 8 downstream channels. This allows the service providers to offer their customers advanced multimedia services delivering the high speeds of up to 300Mbps in DOCSIS and up to 400Mbps in EuroDOCSIS for downstream and up to 100Mbps for upstream.
Firewall / Router Function
Like other wireless routers, the Surfboard SBG6580 cable modem wireless router supports dual firewall feature(NAT and SPI). Network Address Translation (NAT) helps the private network hide from the public network and allow you share a single broadband internet connection with many computers in the network. Stateful Packet Inspection (SPI) filter the incoming traffic from the internet more through deep into the packet for false positive packets.
The router includes the DoS (Denial of Services) and malware protection. The modem also supports the routing function including static route and dynamic routing (RIPv1, RIPv2). This is the second requirement for your network.
High Speeds
The Surfboard SBG6580 cable modem wireless router is powered by the latest wireless 802.11n technology with dual band support. Unfortunately it is a selectable dual band, not simultaneous. It means that the router will operate in single band in a time either in 2.4GHz or 5GHz band. If you have mix wireless devices with different operating bands. If you except the router to accommodate all the devices for example your iPad, 5GHz-based XBOX adapter, your notebook with 2.4GHz wi-fi adapter and other smart-phones, you'll be sorry. The modem can only work in single band either in 2.4GHz (for your smart-band) band. If you have uniform wireless adapters that supports 5GHz band, that'll be great for maximum data throughput.
The modem includes 4xGigabit Ethernet ports to let you connect up to computers with 10/100/1000 Ethernet ports. Brand new computers today are equipped with gigabit Ethernet ports you can connect to the routers using the Cat5e UTP cable for reliable wired connections.
To provide the IP address configuration automatically, the modem inccludes a DHCP server that will provide IP address leases to the clients on the network. This will help you reduce the administrator overhead.
Security
Wireless connections is prone to the eavesdropping by the users within the network coverage.Therefor you need to encrypt the connection by the industrial wireless security WPA/WPA2 (Wireless Protected Access). The Surfboard SBG6580 cable modem wireless router supports wide range of security including WEP-64/128, WPA-PSK, WPA, WPA2, TKIP,AES,802.1x, 802.11i (pre-authentication). For secure client connection to the network, the device supports user-friendly WI-FI protected setup (WPA) to easily connect with WPS compatible device.
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