TP-Link 150Mbps Wireless N Nano Router

You should unequivocally watch out for a choking jeopardy with the TP-Link 150Mbps Wireless N Nano Router, model TL-WR702N. This may good be the minute Wireless-N router you can find.

Despite its minuscule size, the Nano router offers more wireless functions than many regular-size routers. It may be used as a router, an access point, a operation extender, or a media bridge. Its best, and default, use is as an access indicate for the wanting to rapidly increase wireless customers to an existing connected network, such as that of a road house room. That in addition to the ultracompact size creates the router a utilitarian confidante for mobile users.

That said, the Nano Router is clearly far from best and lacks many things you can find in a full-size router. Considering its stream street cost of only $21, however, you won't go incorrect with it.

Design and features
Measuring 2.2 inches by 0.7 in. by 2.2 inches and weighing only 8 ounces, the block TP-Link 150Mbps Wireless N Nano Router is about the size of a sweets bar. And it looks similar to one, too, with a smooth two-tone cosmetic casing that comes in white and a gentle blue. On a side, the router has an Ethernet dock and a typical Micro-USB 2.0 dock for charging. The enclosed USB charger, that is comparatively condensed in its own right, is in fact bulkier than the router itself. The router moreover comes with a prosaic network line orderly curled, ready to be carried when you're on the go.

The router's Ethernet dock functions possibly as a LAN dock (to link up to a client) or a WAN dock (to link up to an Internet source). The only time it functions as a WAN dock is when the TL-WR702N is being used as a router. When it's used as an access point, operation extender, or media bridge, this dock acts as a LAN port.

Along these lines, the Nano would be a sufficient better-designed product if it came with a hardware switch, permitting users to rapidly change its function. Instead, you have to review to its Web interface for this. And getting to the router's Web interface will probably be wily for beginner users. More on this below.

However, if you only wish to use the Nano in its default function of an access point, surroundings it up is simple. On the bottom of the device, there's a small tag that shows the default wireless work name (or the SSID) and the default password. This data varies from a section to other and is all you must be use it. Plug the Nano in to power, link up its Ethernet dock to an existing connected network, such as a switch or a router, and you're ready. All you must be do right away is link up wireless customers to its wireless network with the supposing information.

Note that the Nano's default setup should moreover work with many existing line and DSL modems with DHCP function. If you do not have that sort of modem, you'll must be change the Nano to work as a router, that may be a hassle.