Networking company D-Link has come up with a networked product that crosses over from the world of wireless networking into the Audio Visual arena. The DSM-320 Wireless Media Player is such an unusual product that D-Link ...

Thin clients are a good way of providing secure, easy to manage access to task-oriented applications. They are often found, for example, controlling stock levels in warehouses or accessing patient records in hospitals, indeed anywhere where ...

To connect a printer to a network without a host PC or file server, you need a dedicated print server. To connect it wirelessly, you need a print server with a wireless networking interface - which ...

Netgear makes a number of 'routers with a difference'. This one is a very fast (108Mbps) router, into which you can plug a USB device. More on that later. We didn't have too many problems setting ...

Neoware offers a range of thin client appliances that can be used to run applications hosted on remote Windows servers. Some of these are Linux-based while others are built around Windows CE or XP Embedded (XPE). ...

After the years of controversy, nay-saying and all round pessimism that have dogged the development of 3G mobile phone services, it still seems a little surprising that the technology ever made it into actual, real live ...

Equiinet aims to solve a range of small business problems using network appliances, delivered pre-configured to perform a specific task. SentryPilot is its network security solution, designed to add anti-virus, anti-spam and content filtering tools in ...

Hang on to your hats. Although this 3Com OfficeConnect ADSL Router is aimed at the small office market, it could very well prove to be the ideal home networking product for home users who have broadband. ...

Who worries about setting up a modem these days? You just plug it into the wall and it works. Three or four years ago things were a lot more complicated, but now you expect it all ...

It's taken a while for vendors to start shipping systems based on the latest 64-bit Itanium 2 processor, but they are now starting to appear. One such is the rx2600 from HP, the entry-level member of ...

It may not look much from the outside, but Netgear's GSM7324 is an important new product in two respects. To start with, it's the first Layer 3 switch to come from the budget networking vendor, added ...

It's hard to take a server seriously when it's shaped like a small metal puppy. However, lurking beneath the canine cover of the quirky Eye-box Max from Right Vision is a reasonably well specified server appliance ...

ATTO has been developing bridge solutions for several years and is well known for its fibre channel (FC) to SCSI bridge solutions. Its latest product, the 2500C, enables a direct bridge between Gigabit Ethernet and SCSI ...

Cisco's Aironet 1200 is top of the very popular Aironet range of wireless network access points, and offers a real degree of future-proofing by simultaneously supporting both 2.4GHz (802.11b and 802.11g) and 5GHz (802.11a) wireless networking ...

The major problem with the popular 802.11b wireless ethernet standard is its relatively low speed of 11Mbps. The latest standards, 802.11g and 802.11a (11g uses the same 2.4GHz range as 11b, but with a data rate ...

There's more to the 3Com Network Jack than the name implies. What it does is enable four network devices to be plugged into just one Ethernet connector, the idea being to let you add printers, Voice-over-IP ...

The ZyXEL Prestige 650 Series of routers provides everything needed to share an ADSL broadband connection on a home or small business network. That includes a built-in ADSL modem, ready to plug straight into the phone ...

Small companies installing their first network nearly always buy a general purpose file server, only to find it takes a lot of time and expertise to install and manage. A far simpler, and often cheaper, alternative ...

Despite the long name, 3Com's 11Mbps Wireless LAN OfficeConnect PC Card is actually a small and, in many respects, unremarkable product. Like a host of other Wi-Fi certified cards it conforms to the 802.11b Wireless Ethernet ...

PCs equipped with wireless network adapters can communicate with each other directly, but for more than a handful an access point is required, such as 3Com's Access Point 2000. This makes it possible for up to ...