How2r1 High Performance Hi-gain Outdoor Wireless 300n With Dual Radio Smart Repeater

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Wireless repeaters are used to repeat your existing wireless network to reach longer distances and eliminate dead zones. As the best practice, you need to arrange the wireless repeater as far as possible from the wireless sources you need to rebroadcast, but still receive the signal, and close to the wireless clients which need to be covered within the wireless network.

Traditional repeaters are typically connected to 2dBi antennas which are designed to be Omni-directional in receiving the signal and rebroadcasting in all direction around the device. On the other hand, a directional wireless antenna is designed to focus the wireless signal only to one direction, thus it can cover longer distance. To meet your requirement, a wireless repeater should be engineered to receive to signal using directional antenna, so it can focus the signal to a certain direction with longer distance and rebroadcast the signal using Omni-directional to cover wireless clients within all direction. Is there any wireless repeater that meets the above requirements? Consider the HOW2R1 Hi-Gain Outdoor smart repeater

What this Product ...
... Does

HOW2R1 Hawking is a Hi-Gain Outdoor 2.4GHz Wireless-300N dual radio smart repeater which connects and repeats your existing wireless network with up to 64X the power output and 8X the distance of a standard Wireless-G device.

HOW2R1 Outdoor Smart Repeater is engineered with two powerful Wi-Fi radios, one radio (which is connected using 11dBi directional antenna integrated internally in the HOW2R1) is dedicated to receiving signals from a wireless source, access point or router, and the other radio is used to rebroadcasting wireless signals throughout your surroundings using two external 5dBi Omni-directional antennas. With this dual-radio, the repeater effectively eliminates wireless dead spots inside and outside of your home or office.

Advanced Security

HOW2R1 Outdoor Smart Repeater is powered by the fastest wireless 802.11n standards. This powerful repeater is not only robustly design to withstand outdoor environment, it also packed with wireless security features, such as MAC access control, IEEE 802.11x authentication, WPA, WPA2, hidden ESSID, and the basic WEP encryption.

The good thing with this wireless repeater is that it features broadband router including:
Firewall. Traditional repeaters do not support firewall feature. With firewall, all traffic will be filtered based on security policy set
NAT (network address translation), can be used to hide the internal network and combined with the DoS protection helps protect your network against any network threats.
Access control: allows you control who have access right or deny access based on the MAC address or IP address filter.
DMZ (demilitarized zones) feature helps you create a security boundary to provide public resource separated from your private network
Port forwarding allows you expose certain ports to the public
URL blocking allows you control safe sites only

Smart Repeater Support Utility

In order to configure, and troubleshoot the wireless connection for multiple smart repeaters, the HOW2R1 includes Windows based Smart Repeater Support Utility. With this support utility, you can upgrade the firmware, reset devices to factory settings, adjust IP settings, scan and connect to wireless Internet networks and view current system settings. The Utility uses a proprietary communication protocol to connect to the Smart Repeater without having to know the correct IP settings.
With data transfer rate of up to 300Mbps, the HOW2R1 is an ideal solution for High Performance Wireless Solution, extending your wireless signals for your home or your business, or providing wireless access to RV parks or Marine docks.

By Ki Grinsing

Ki Grinsing was graduated from ITS-Surabaya, electrical engineering - faculty of industrial technology and with the additions of MCSE and CCNA professional certifications. He has prolonged years of working experiences in IT projects. Please visit the articles How2r1 wireless outdoor repeater and top 10 wireless routers.