Sitecom Wireless Simultaneous Dualband 300N XR Gigabit Gaming Router II Review

Others/Networking Gear by stefan @ 2010-10-04

The Wireless Simultaneous Dualband 300N XR Gigabit Gaming Router II from Sitecom is a feature rich product that has a nice quality and modern look and does not fail to impress with its wired and wireless performances. Its firmware interface is intuitive enough and if we want to go into its advanced settings, we can always read the Installation Manual located on the CD.

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The Router Interface Part 1

If the StreamEngine feature is enabled, right before we access the router for the first time (with the default http://192.168.0.1 address) the firmware will measure the network connection bandwidth; after it finishes, we can access the interface:

 

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The router interface is very nice designed, and retains the same colors as the body of the router; the menus are split into multiple tabs and on the top we can see the full name of the router along with the Sitecom manufacturer logo:

 

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In the Device menu, we can see general information about the WAN, LAN, but also the Wireless 2.4GHz and 5GHz networks (if enabled):

 

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The Wireless menu provides us with information regarding the connected clients on both 5GHz and 2.4GHz, along with the network SSID, the wireless mode and the rate at which they are connected; here we can also see the WISH sessions. A WISH session is a conversation between a program or application on a wirelessly connected LAN-side computer and another computer, however connected:

 

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In the Logs menu, the router automatically logs(records) events of possible interest in its internal memory. If there is not enough internal memory for all events, logs of older events are deleted, but logs of the latest events are retained:

 

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The Statistics menu shows us the number of received and transmitted packets passing through the router:

 

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The Routing menu tells us the routing details of the router, but also shows us the full details of the active Internet sessions:

 

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The Firewall menu shows us the firewall holes in our router:

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The Network Settings menu allows us to configure the device as a router or as a bridge; here we can also set the IP address of the router inside the local network, the DHCP server settings and we can add DHCP reservations so each time we connect one computer to the network, it will get the same IP address:

 

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