I bought the unit to replace my Apple Airport Base station because of the extra ethernet connections. The unit is very easy to set up and has good singal strength (stronger than the Airport station) probably due to its external and modifiable antenna.
The unit is of decent quality and a very sleek design. It is a little larger than I thought, being very thin at the expense of width and length. Good thing that it comes with a vertical stand, or else it will take quite a bit of desktop space. Set-up was quite easy, and it starts working without much effort for both my PC and Macs on the network.
The unit worked well, until I noticed that the port forwarding feature did not seem work reliably. It only provides for TCP connection forwarding, and thre are no forwarding provided for UDP connections. There are quite a few applicartions I use that seem to use UDP ports, and those will never work. Even the TCP port forwarding sometimes failed to enable applications to work through its "firewall". Applications that are widely available that had not worked well: Yahoo messenger with video resetting once in a while, and MSN messenger's/Netmeeting conferencing features all but ceased to function. Even setting the computer to a default DMZ did not solve the problem. The unreliable and sometimes apparent non-existant port forwarding forced me to remove the router in the chain of connection. This has been nothing but headache, and I am typing this sans the router.
I hate to bash on a product, and I am trying hard not to. However, I am just an average consumer without professional demands, and the router comes short even for my needs. I do not know what else is missing, but the lack of UDP forwarding feature and the sometimes unreliable TCP forwarding seems like a grave issue, as it effectively eroded my computing experience. I don't think it would cost much more to implement such features, and it would have been a real winner with such a low price and pleasing design. As of now, I'm looking for something that has more network settings. MR814's controls are pretty bare, and while it may have been good at stifling confusion, it also meant trouble with connections for me.
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| Connectivity Technology | Ethernet | Wi-Fi | Wi-Fi | Wi-Fi |
| Item Dimensions | 11.9 x 10 x 4.3 inches | 2.64 x 12.76 x 10.08 inches | 5.86 x 2.99 x 9.21 inches | 11.22 x 7.2 x 2.44 inches |
| Item Weight | 2.60 lbs | 1.43 lbs | 0.99 lbs | 1.58 lbs |
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