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Chapter 1
Introduction
Congratulations on your purchase of a BRL-04FM Cable/DSL
Broadband Router. PCI is proud to provide you with a powerful yet
simple communication device for connecting your local area network
(LAN) to the Internet. For those who want to surf the Internet at the
lowest possible cost, the BRL-04FM is the convenient, easy solution.
Features and Benefits
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MIPS 32bit chipset greatly improves throughput
Its on-board MIPS 32bit processor achieves a maximum data
rate of 91Mbps, a significant improvement over the average
throughput of conventional broadband routers. The highly
improved throughput facilitates the sending and receiving of
large-volume multimedia data, allowing the user to take full
advantage of broadband environments that are becoming
faster at an accelerating rate.
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Supports UPnP (Universal Plug and Play)
The product's UPnP feature eases the configuration tasks of
network applications used on its network. The following
functions of Windows Messenger ( a UPnP compliant
application) are supported by BRL-04FM:
Windows Messenger
Instant Message, Voice Chat, Video Chat, Receive/Send
Files, Remote Assistance, Application Sharing, White Board
(the "Place Call" function is not supported)
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Supports Special Application feature
When NAT/IP masquerading is enabled, applications whose
send packets and receive packets use different protocols and
port numbers are usually blocked. Nonetheless, the special
application function of the product allows the user to access
such applications in the same environment. The following
special applications are enabled by default, and more
applications may be added as well.
* Age of Empire/ H.323(CUseeMe & MS NetMeeting & TGI
Phone)/ ICU II(ICU 2)/ Internet Phone/ Yahoo Messenger
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PPPoE Unnumbered Connection
The product supports services that provide multiple global IP
addresses. The BRL-04FM enables flexible network
configuration as its IP allocation scheme is capable of directly
assigning global IP to LAN clients.
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VPN Packet Pass-Through
The product can pass through packets that are encoded
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