ZyXEL Home Firewall Router With 4 Port 10/100 Fast Ethenet Switch

• Allows multiple users to share a single ISP account
• Serves as a DHCP server on the LAN to provide IP addresses to local computers
• Secured Firewall protection
• Traffic redirect and dial backup for broadband backup connections

I purchased this product specifically for use in a situation wherein a dial-up connection must be shared (but not simultaneously) between two workstations. I had tried various other products, but most were too basic and did not allow the configuration needed.

The dial backup is, from what I can tell, completely useless on this device. I tried three different modems, and all achieved high connections speeds. For some bizarre reason, though, this device limited all dial-up traffic to atrocious speeds. Transfer speeds with this device never exceeded 1.5Kb/sec while the same modem connected to one of the other basic routers was consistently over 5Kb/sec.

It seems that the dial backup on devices like this is really just an afterthought which they never expect anyone to use and which they never optimize or even verify.

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I had some problems getting it to communicate with our cable modem at first. Had to reboot the modem to get everything working, but it has been working fine since then except when I made a setting change on the router, I had to reboot it to regain modem communication. As long as I leave it alone, it seems reliable. The router it replaced kept losing the broadband connection. LAN connections have been flawless.