Wireless-N Gigabit
Router
Model:
WRT310N
Incredible coverage and performance for your
Connected Home
The Wireless-N Gigabit Router is really three devices in one box. First, there’s the Wireless
Access Point, which lets you connect to the network without wires. There’s also a built-in
4-port full-duplex Gigabit Switch to connect your wired-Ethernet devices together. Finally,
the Router function ties it all together and lets your whole network share a high-speed
cable or DSL Internet connection.
The Access Point built into the Router uses the very latest wireless networking technology,
Wireless-N (draft 802.11n). By overlaying the signals of multiple radios, Wireless-N’s
“Multiple In, Multiple Out” (MIMO) technology multiplies the effective data rate. Unlike
ordinary wireless networking technologies that are confused by signal reflections, MIMO
actually uses these reflections to increase the range and reduce “dead spots” in the wireless
coverage area. The robust signal travels farther, maintaining wireless connections much
farther than standard Wireless-G.
With Wireless-N, the farther away you are, the more speed advantage you get. It works
great with standard Wireless-G and -B equipment, but when both ends of the wireless link
are Wireless-N, the router can increase the throughput even more by using twice as much
radio band, yielding speeds far faster than standard Wireless-G. But unlike other speed-
enhanced technologies, Wireless-N can dynamically enable this double-speed mode for
Wireless-N devices, while still connecting to other wireless devices at their respective
fastest speeds. In congested areas, the “good neighbor” mode ensures that the Router
checks for other wireless devices in the area before gobbling up the radio band.
To help protect your data and privacy, the Router can encode all wireless transmissions
with industrial-strength 256-bit encryption. It can serve as your network’s DHCP Server,
has a powerful SPI firewall to protect your PCs against intruders and most known Internet
attacks, and supports VPN pass-through. Configuration is a snap with the web browser-
based configuration utility.
The incredible speed of Wireless-N makes it ideal for media-centric applications like
streaming video, gaming, and Voice over IP telephony, and gives you plenty of headroom
to run multiple media-intense data streams through the network at the same time, with
no degradation in performance. With the Linksys Wireless-N Gigabit Router at the center
of your home or office network, you can share a high-speed Internet connection, files,
printers, and multi-player games, and run media-intensive applications at faster than
10/100 wired network speeds, without the hassle of stringing wires!
DATASHEET
Internet-sharing Router and 4-port
Gigabit Switch, with a built-in speed
and range enhanced Wireless Access
Point
MIMO technology uses multiple
radios per band to create robust
signals for maximum range and
speed, with reduced dead spots
Much faster than Wireless-G, but
also works great with Wireless-G and
-B devices
Wireless signals are protected by
industrial-strength encryption, and
your network is protected from
Internet attacks by a powerful SPI
firewall
