Efficient Networks 5400 Series, 5500 Series About the SpeedStream Router, Features and Benefits

SpeedStream Router User Guide

About the SpeedStream Router

Your SpeedStream router provides high-speed Internet and corporate network access to homes, networked home offices, and small offices. In addition, if you are working from a branch office, the router provides a fast and effective means of communicating over a remote LAN with the main office. The SpeedStream router can also be used to connect the corporate local area network (LAN) to the Internet over the wide area network (WAN).

Features and Benefits

•Effortless installation via configurable Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) integration with an intuitive graphical user interface (GUI) on UPnP-supported operating systems (Windows ME and XP).

•Intuitive Web-based management interface to simplify operation and support.

•Ethernet connectivity (all models) to the Internet or network through a network interface card (NIC), providing full 10/100 megabits per second (Mbps) bandwidth to the port.

•USB connectivity (5200, 5500 series) providing added flexibility of connecting your computer via the Ethernet or USB port.

•Support for G.lite and full-rate DSL ensures compatibility with most DSL networks.

•Multiple computers can share a single DSL connection through the integrated switch ports, each providing full- or half-duplex data transmission (5400, 5500 series).

•Firewall Security with four conveniently pre-set standard levels of firewall security (Off, Low, Medium, High), an ICSA-compliant mode, and a custom setting for advanced users.

•Stateful Inspection Firewall that provides many security features such as blocking common hacker attacks, including IP Spoofing, Land Attack, Ping of Death, IP with zero length, Smurf Attack, UDP port loopback, Snork Attack, TCP null scan, and TCP SYN flooding.

•Network Address Port Translation (NAPT) and a secure firewall to protect your data while your computer is connected to the Internet.

•Port Forwarding to provide more flexible management by allowing you to change internal IP addresses without affecting outside access to your network.

•Virtual Private Network that allows remote users to establish a secure connection to a corporate network by setting pass-through of the three most commonly used VPN protocols: PPTP, L2TP and IPSec.

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