Inside the router

Basic Hardware Setup

Like most of the normal networking products that you, the consumer, would buy, this works in a default state straight out of the box. Plugin the cables and power and off you go, the rest is all done via a web interface. The only extra little thing you may have noticed that comes with this hardware, is that there is a dip switch on the rear of the box. I wont go into to too much detail, but suffice to say that this is a real easy way of recovering from a complete death of the router!

The rest of this page is a quick summary of what each of the chips in the router actually do. Read on if your interested in stuff like that.

RTL8019AS
Realtek Full-Duplex Ethernet Controller with Plug and Play Function (RealPNP)

KS8995E Product Brief Revision 1.0

5-Port 10/100 Integrated Switch with PHY and Frame Buffers
One port decoupled for public access use aka routing

Lattice iM4A3-32 Programmable logic with 32 macrocells.

HY57V161610DTC-7 SDRAM 1Mx16, 143 MHz Hynix x 2 16Mbit memory

4M(X8/X16) HY29LV400-BT  4M  3.0V 55ns Hynix x 1 4Mbit memory

74LCX374Low Voltage Octal D-Type Flip-Flop with 5V Tolerant Inputs and Outputs LED controller as far as I can tell.