Best Router Under 100 Dollars

Today, I'm going to continue in my mini hub series about routers. Last time you could find out what I thought was the best router for under 50 dollars, and this time I'm moving the price up to twice that amount. This is already a bigger difference, and I think that even the more advanced users will be able to find a router for this price, while still meeting their requirements.

The technology has been moving up so quickly that you can hardly catch the step with it. I can remember, our first dial-up connection where we had to watch the time we spent on the internet because it was quite expensive to spend there more than two hours a day. Our first connection was through the ISDN modem (via telephone line).

If I remember it correctly, we had three channels for data and voice, so we got 3 different numbers. One was for the internet connection and the other two for our two telephones. For us it was then pretty easy and straight forward as just a few years later the cable era came in and we have had a cable internet ever since then, but with better and better download and upload speeds.

This is what I consider to be the best router under 100 dollars.

Zyxel Prestige 661HW-D3 is an ADSL modem combined with a WiFi wireless access point, router and a sophisticated firewall. It is suitable for homes and small business offices and it also supports the new technology called g + SuperSpeed, which provides a wireless connection with a speed of up to 125 Mb per second. Another advantage is a support of the Wireless Multimedia ( WMM) or firewall with a full packet inspection, and prevention against the unpleasant DoS attacks. It has an ADSL port so you can connect your telephone line directly to the router, without any need of an external modem.

Details:

Virtual Private Network (VPN):
2 IPSec VPN Tunnels
IKE and Manual Key
AH and ESP Protocol
DES, 3DES and AES encryption
SHA-1 and MD5 Authentication
Encapsulation Tunnel and Transport Mode

WiFi wireless interface:
Standards: IEEE 802.11b / 802.11g
Wireless g + SuperSpeed
Encryption: 64 / 128 / 256 bit WEP, WPA, WPA-PSK/TKIP, WPA2
MAC address filtering
WMM (Wireless Multimedia)
Multi-ESSID, Full Channels Support
Antenna: 3dBi

Interfaces:
ADSL: 1 x RJ-45 connector
:4-Port LAN switch

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