MPC Club Reviews 2010
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Everything we said so far, is valid for both the MeeBox and the MeeBox
router, only the router does handle more while integrating wireless and a
regular 4 port router. Design wise neither can be distinguished from each
other if it wasn’t for the antenna in the rear
and additional network ports.
The integrated wireless is B/G only so no wireless N and that is strange for a
product to come to market only today. Obviously the WAN port and 4 LAN
ports are in the rear. Other than that, no differences can be found. As with
the MeeBox, no fans, so the only noise comes from the hard drives. An extra
led in front joins the HDD and USB led’s for both Internet and WiFi.
The setup options are obviously
extended in order to configure
the WAN/LAN part of the
MeeBox router. WAN Mode can
be set to static IP, DHCP, PPPoE
according to your internet
provider. MTU settings can be
changed
and
network
translation.
IP Address configuration and
DNS are next. Once set, the
connection to our internet
provider is made and the
MeeBox router is now the
gateway to the internet in our
network.
When this is the only router in the network, the MeeBox router can be set to
become a DHCP server and the option is provided to add clients that require
a fixed IP address.
The usual details for applying a local IP for the
router are provided, there’s an integrated dynDNS
service should one want to remotely access the
device over the internet and there’s the wireless
settings, unfortunately only B/G, featuring shared
(WEP), WPA/PSK and WPA2/PSK security.
The firewall integration provides port mapping, port
triggering, QoS and traffic control options.
