Review on 🔁 Cisco-Linksys BEFSR41 EtherFast Cable/DSL Router: Enhanced Connectivity with 4-Port 10/100 Switch by Vangele Carson

I don't normally write reviews, but I liked the Linksys BEFSR41 Cable/DSL Router so much that I had to take the time to share my thoughts. poor modem performance, busy signals, and the relatively high cost of modem-based Internet services. Broadband with Linksys is as good as it gets. Plug it in and it works right out of the box, but with practice you should be able to get the Linksys BEFSR41 to work wonders! The incoming cable from the cable company connects to the cable modem provided by your ISP. (It's not actually a modem but that's another story.) From there you plug a cable into a Linksys wired router and from there you can either connect 4 computers to that router or to some hubs to connect even more people connect to the internet. (Up to 254 with no special network magic.) Those are the basics. What a lot of people don't really know is how your computer gets the address information. All computers, as we know, must have an IP (Internet Protocol) address in order to communicate with another computer. Linksys is both a DHCP server and a DHCP client. (DHCP = Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol. I'll spare you the details, but suffice it to say that being a DHCP server means that all your internal computers get IP addresses from the Linksys router. Alternatively, Linksys can act as a DHCP server using a Client to your ISP, as is typically required if you don't have a business account and aren't paying for a fixed IP Linksys Large IP Addresses and more The Linksys BEFSR41 allows you to cascade up to 254 other computers, providing Internet access for 254 people. Wow, when you consider that a T1 line or even a partial T1 line can cost thousands a month, paying $40-60 a month to give access to 254 people is unbelievable.( The only problem might be that if all a user tries to download an MP3 at the same time, the performance will be pretty bad, but if only 20% of your users are in the Browsing the web, um that will be fine.) There are other great features too. Linksys BEFSR41 is like port filtering where you can control the type of traffic coming in and going through Linksys. For example, you can block all external traffic. OR you can set up a web server and direct all incoming traffic looking for the web server to just that computer, providing a good security setup. This review is getting too long so I'm sending it in, but suffice it to say that the Linksys BEFSR41 is great and extremely easy to use. You control it through a web browser interface and there are free software (firmware) updates from Linksys. This is important because we "hackers" always find a way to bypass security devices. Firmware updates keep Linksys staff ahead of today's "hack" technologies.