Cyberoam Netgenie review
Having internet filtering at the router level makes sense and the NetGenie is easy to set up, but it's expensive
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The rest of the router’s interface is well designed and very easy to use; there’s no QoS, apart from a blanket limit for upload and download rates for the router, but the port forwarding and wireless networking interfaces are well designed. You can plug a 3G USB modem into the router’s USB port to share a 3G connection; to get a 3 Premium Broadband dongle to work we just had to type in the three.co.uk APN and add *99# as the dial-up number; you can find settings for other networks at http://tinyurl.com/644hdz.
The router’s admin settings – click to enlarge
Unfortunately, the router was slow in our file transfer tests. When testing with a Centrino laptop, at 1m range we saw just 27.1Mbit/s, while at 10m this dropped to 5.9Mbit/s and at 25m a crawling 2.1Mbit/s. Cyberoam doesn’t have its own USB dongle, but when we tested with a Dynamode WL-700N-MRT (£6 from www.scan.co.uk) we saw a large improvement to 27.1Mbit/s at 10m; unfortunately, we couldn’t hold a signal at 25m using the Dynamode dongle.
Cyberoam’s NetGenie router is a good idea that generally does a good job of filtering content for the various members of your family – it makes sense to do this at the router level, as it will then apply to any device that connects to the wireless network, whether it’s a laptop, a tablet or a smartphone. All this comes at a price, though; it’s the same price as some premium dual-band routers, and the NetGenie is a slow single-band model. Also, after three years you’ll need to buy a further £89 subscription to keep your website categories and virus definitions up to date.
Basic Specifications | |
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Rating | *** |
Modem type | none |
802.11b support | yes |
802.11g support | yes |
Draft 802.11n support | yes |
Draft 802.11n 5GHz support | no |
MIMO | no |
Turbo mode | none |
Stated speed | 150Mbit/s |
Security | |
WPA | PSK |
WPA2 | yes |
Firewall | yes |
MAC address filtering | no |
DMZ | no |
Physical | |
Size | 44x153x232 |
Antennas | 2 |
Internal/external antennas | external |
Upgradeable antenna | yes |
Number of WAN ports | 1 |
Ethernet ports | 4 |
Ethernet connection speed | 10/100Mbit/s |
Other ports | USB |
Wall mountable | yes |
Power consumption on | 4W |
Other Features | |
Dynamic DNS | yes |
Universal Plug and Play support | yes |
DHCP server | yes |
MAC spoofing | no |
Port forwarding | yes |
WDS Support | yes |
USB device support | no |
QoS | yes |
Buying Information | |
Price | £98 |
Warranty | one year RTB |
Supplier | http://www.scan.co.uk |
Details | www.netgenie.net |