Buyer’s Guide: Choosing a Cyberoam Netgenie for home!

Gone are the days when you’d have to spend hours untangling a plethora of wires that connected all your gadgets. Today, we’re living in the age of Wi-Fi. One can connect a host of devices to the Internet by the use of wireless waves. All you’ve do is get home a dependable wireless router that transmits Wi-Fi across your home, thereby enabling you to run your laptops, computer, tablets, and mobile phones on Wi-Fi.

Choosing a Wi-Fi is a pretty important consideration. There are several factors that come into play while choosing a Wi-Fi device. Let’s have a look at all of them one by one –

• Range: The range of a Wi-Fi router is one of the most crucial considerations. An ideal wireless router for you is one that can transmit signals even to the farthest corner of your home. While routers generally don’t have so much strength to transmit signals across huge distances, one can always install repeater routers, which amplify the signal of your original router and enable the signals to travel as far as needed.

 

• Security: There are various types of security settings available in different routers. Security is a pivotal issue because people are on the lookout to hack into your Wi-Fi and use your Internet for free. Not only that, but also one can indulge in malicious activities using your IP address, thereby putting you in trouble. WEP, WPA, and WPA2 are the most common types of security settings that should be available in the router you are looking at.

 

• Internet Protocol Version 6: You must have seen IPv4 and IPv6 in your Internet settings. IP is nothing but your Internet Protocol. It defines your unique address on the Internet. However, with rising number of computers and Internet connections, people will soon run out of IPv4 addresses. This is when IPv6 addresses will be required. While we are not concerned about IPv6’s working and technicalities, make sure that the new router you are looking for supports IPv6.

Now that we’ve seen the essentials in a Wi-Fi router, we will also throw some light on the Cyberoam Netgenie. The Netgenie is one of the most powerful routers to have come out in recent times. It offers some appreciable benefits that you’ve always looked out for. Let’s go through them one by one –

1. Security and Child Lock: As discussed above, security is a pivotal concern. You cannot allow your Wi-Fi to get hacked. One can use it for a variety of malicious/anti-national activities. Netgenie’s Wi-Fi router offers you the ultimate security and secures your Internet against miscreants. Also, there are parental controls to ensure that your kids don’t visit adult websites!
2. Firewall and Antivirus – Taking the security a step ahead, Cyberoam Netgenie for Home offers what most other routers don’t offer – inbuilt anti-virus and firewall! All the devices accessing the Internet using the Cyberoam device will be prevented against virus attacks. Also, you will be warned while opening malicious and harmful websites. You will be advised even while installing programs that might damage your system.