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Sitecom 300N X4 WLR-4000 Wireless router review
Posted by Hilbert Hagedoorn on: 07/06/2011 01:00 PM [ 0 comment(s) ]
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So lets have a closer look at the product..
The photo-shoot was quite horrible as the white background with a white top on the router kinda makes it hard to photograph. Sitecom delivers a decent bundle though. Next to the router you'll see a CAT6 Gigabit Ethernet cable, power adapter, a template + plugs and screws so you can mount he unit on the wall, manual, Instruction CD, WIFI/Router codes and your 6-month trial for Cloud Security.
As you can see the upper side of the router is white, and that does not work well with a white background, so above it I included a product render from Sitecom.
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The Sitecom Powerline Ethernet adapters allow you to use your mains electricity circuit to transfer data, this way you can extend your network to wherever you have a free plug socket. The product we test today comes from Sitecom, their 500 Mbps plus Homeplug. The kit provides a connection of up to 500Mbits/sec. Divide that by 8 bits and you'd in theory would be able to see transfer speeds of 62.5 Megabyte per second. In practice, however we tested the maximum net data rate is much MUCH lower, 60~100 Mbits/sec - still that is faster than Wi-Fi and sufficient fenough or streaming high-definition video from say your PC with network shares to, for instance, your HTPC.
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Sitecom introduces a series of standard routers but with a twist. They tagged their mainstream range from X1, X2, X3 and a more enthusiast range from X4, X5 and X6. They are all Gigabit models, but obviously the higher the number the better the feature set. all models now come with cloud security, and that's the new feature we'll discuss later on. We test the X4 WLR-4000 model.
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