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Review on 🏠 Enhance Your Home Network with KEEBOX W150NR: A Reliable 150Mbps Wireless-N Router with Auto-MDIX WAN Port by Andrew Schobinger

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Keebox W150NR HW:V2.0R does the job

I bought a Keebox W150NR HW:V2.0R router on June 3, 2017 and expect it to be an upgraded version of my old Keebox W150NR HW router: V1 acts. .0. The devices are physically similar in design, except that the antenna is non-detachable on the V2.0R and the WPS button is on the front rather than on the right side of the device as on the V1.0. The device comes with a well-written quick installation guide for version 04.2012 and an included CD for version 2.01, indicating that it was released in June 2012. The supplied CD contains PDF files for the quick installation guide in English and Spanish, as well as a detailed manual. The detailed user manual seems to be for a slightly different router firmware version than the one I have as it shows that there is an input line for configuring the subnet mask of the LAN IP address while my router with firmware version 2.002 does not display such a line to configure the subnet mask in the user interface. I tried the router, it works fine. At first I worried that the router was defective when I noticed that the power light started blinking at a rate of one blink per second after not blinking for 15 seconds. I have two devices and they both have their power LEDs blinking, so I'm guessing that the power LED is blinking on purpose. While I can't be sure, the subnet mask of the router's LAN IP address may be configurable using CIDR notation, i.e. notation / after the LAN IP, but I'll have to experiment with this as there's no guidance in the user manual. The router works out of the box and has many customizable features, most of which I don't use.

Pros
  • Wow
Cons
  • boring packaging