TRENDnet Ships Next-Gen AC1200 Dual Band Wireless Router
TRENDnet is shipping its next-generation AC1200 dual-band wireless router, the TEW-811DRU. The company says it's designed to easily handle multiple HD streams "in a busy connected home", offering up to 867 Mbps on the 5 GHz band for Wireless AC networking and up to 300 Mbps on the 2.4 GHz band for Wireless N networking. It will be available soon online and at retail partners for $179.99 USD.
The specs show that the new router provides four Gigabit Ethernet ports and one USB 2.0 port for connecting external drives/flash sticks and printers – support for Samba / FTP server is included. It also sports parental controls that can filter Mac addresses, URLs and IP addresses, and Beamforming technology which boosts connectivity and real-time performance by directing the strongest signal to the location of each connected device.
TRENDnet claims that users can get the router up and running in minutes with an "intuitive" guided setup. There's also Wi-Fi Protected Setup (WPS) which connects other WPS supported wireless adapters at the touch of a button. Users can even create one guest network per band with Internet isolation. Additional features include QoS management, IPv6 support, DDNS support for dyndns.com & no-ip.com, and wireless encryption up to WPA2.
Of course, to see the 867 Mbps speeds, customers will need a compatible Wireless AC device. For desktops and notebooks, TRENDnet offers the TEW-805UB, an AC1200 dual-band wireless USB adapter for $59.99 USD. It's a USB 3.0 device that provides coverage up to 330 feet indoors and up to 980 feet outside. Additional features include support for advanced wireless encryption for up to WPA2-RADIUS, one-touch WPS setup, and Dynamic Data Rate Scaling from 867 Mbps to 1 Mbps.
"The average home now has over ten wireless connected devices," said Zak Wood, director of marketing for TRENDnet. "TRENDnet’s TEW-811DRU, is designed to effortlessly handle network traffic for the demands of today and tomorrow."
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JOSHSKORN Let me guess, no USB 3.0, right?Reply
Why is it so hard to make an 802.11ac Wireless Router with USB 3.0 when clearly an 802.11n router already exists with a USB 3.0 connection? That is exactly why I'm not buying this, yet. -
shriganesh "....Dynamic Data Rate Scaling from 867 Mbps to 1 Mbps." Should be 867 Mbps to 1 Gbps I think.Reply -
CaedenV Reply10872547 said:Let me guess, no USB 3.0, right?
Why is it so hard to make an 802.11ac Wireless Router with USB 3.0 when clearly an 802.11n router already exists with a USB 3.0 connection? That is exactly why I'm not buying this, yet.
It is a processing bottleneck. Even high end routers with USB2 have a slow 5-10MB/s throughput because the CPUs that they use are slow and merely 'good enough' to get things done. Moving a wireless router up to USB3 may be faster... but it is not going to be anything near what you would expect USB3 to have in performance. -
falchard I think the problem with Wireless-AC is that its still in its infancy and everyone knows it. Its hard to justify buying a new router over a Wireless-N with 450mbps when you know that router will be shoveled aside for the next Wireless-AC product in a couple months.Reply -
cjmcgee When you do the next review of ac routers, can you do some tests with a mix of adapter protocols? All the reviews I find only have ac routers with ac adapters. I will have PS3 (g), Wii (g?), cell phones (g), tablets (g/n), laptops (g/n/ac), etc. I am worried that this mix of signals will effect the performance of of the router. A mix of 5 GHz n and 5 GHz ac adapters seems most likely to cause problems.Reply