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Date: 2001-10-29 11:35 Author: John Category: Wireless Manufacturer: Cayman Product/Model: 2E-H-W11 Broadband/Wireless Gateway List Price: $499

Performance Testing

For the speed testing across the LAN I used DU Meter from http://www.dumeter.com. Might I add, DU Meter also has a cool transparency in Windows XP and Windows 2000 :)  I set up two clients and optimized each using the SpeedGuide Registry patches. These are two fresh installs of Windows XP, with the latest critical updates and a recent defragmentation. Tested the network speed by sending large amounts of data between the computers. The two clients are as follow:

Here is the folder on Client 2 that I will be using for testing, 1.97 GB of mp3's.

Here is a screenshot of the data being sent from Client 2 to Client 1. After 20 minutes, I decided to cut the transfer off at at 1.19GB.

Sending the data back to Client 2 yielded about the same speeds, I ran a 5 minute test.

Frankly, I am not happy with the Network performance, due to the 10 Base T speeds; they are about one half the speeds I was getting with the UGate 3200 with much slower storage configurations. After using a 10/100 router Base TX router for so long, operating solely at 10base T across the home network was sluggish while moving large portions of data around. This router is fine for moving small things like word documents, spreadsheets, and the like; however, moving gigs of data is not a treat.

Security Testing

I took the Shields UP test from Steve Gibson's website, here are the results:

The first time I ran this test the router did not fare too well; Telnet and http were wide open. I remedied the problem and ran the test again, producing the output below. You will have to change some of the default settings to make your computer 100% secure.

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