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Hi all,

Just thought I’d let you know about a little purchase I’ve made recently and was very surprised by it. I needed to buy a new wifi router for my mum and decided to go with an ebuyer product “plexus 54Mbps wireless router” (its quick find code is 132428 if your interested). The device itself was £18.99. Now I wasn’t really expecting very much for that price for what is essentially a router and wifi access point and 4 port switch but it certainly packs the features in and was very simple to set up.

For a device of this price bracket you had to set up the region and virtual circuit settings etc, but so far its been a breeze to use. The web interface whilst not quite having a professional sheen about it is nice and tidy.

From the ebuyer page heres a list of its features:

Plexus Wireless Broadband Router ADSL2+, providing up to 24Mbps downstream rate and up to 1Mbps upstream rate. The device includes all as ADSL2+, router, wireless AP and 4-port switch in one, suitable for SOHOs and small-sized enterprises. It also supports dual SSID, which can separate the private network from the public one. Meantime, it provides WEP, WPA, WPA2, 802.1x encryption and security mechanism, and supports IP and MAC address filtering to protect your network against malicious attacks. In addition, it supports DHCP server, virtual server, DMZ host, static routing, DDNS, etc. Web management utility, Telnet and SNMP are also supported. Moreover, the device can be managed anywhere through Remote Web management interface.
o Complies with G.dmt, G.lite T1.413 G.992.3(ADSL2)G.992.5(ADSL2+)Annex A standards
o Supports ATM fragmentation/de-fragmentation: CBR rt- VBR nrt-VBR UBR- with-PCR UBR
o Four 10/100M auto-negotiation & auto-sensing fast Ethernet LAN ports
o IEEE802.11b/g wireless access point
o Supports 64/128-bit WEP and WPA/WPA2 encryption and 802.x security authentication standards
o USB1.0/1.1 Device port
o Supports Telnet, Local/Remote Web management interface
o Supports VPN pass-through over L2TP, PPTP and IP protocols
o Supports Bridging mode based over 10/100M Ethernet, USB and 802.11g wireless LAN interfaces
o Supports RIPv1, RIPv2 and NAT protocols
o Provides system configuration backup tool
o Supports DHCP Server/clients
o Supports the static IP routing
o Supports MAC address filtering, UPnP, DMZ and IP OoS
o Supports 16 PVC (Permanent Virtual Circuits) entries
o Supports ATM Forum UNI 3.0, 3.1 and 4.0 PVC standards
o Supports SNTP protocol
o Supports local administrator, local user and Telnet login
o Supports anti-DOS attack for WAN/LAN, including SYN flooding, IP surfing, ping of Death, fraggle, – UDP ECHO, port 7, teardrop, land
o Supports Point to Point Protocol (PPP): PAP (RFC1334), CHAP (RFC1994) and MSCHAP authentication protocols
o Supports auto wireless channel selection
o Supports dual-SSID for public and private wifi access
o Supports Wireless Distribution System (WDS)
So you cant really complain at all that for twenty quid, and even with next day postage charges bought the total cost cost to a shade under £30.

All in all a great little device.