Comprehensive view of home Broadband Router Functions

With the development of China's routing industry, the application of home broadband routers is also more extensive, here we mainly introduce various functions of home broadband routers, the above three are more practical functions, especially UPNP, currently, the latest generation of home routers in various major factories have basically provided support. If the package does not indicate support for UPNP, it may be a product of the previous generation and is not recommended for purchase.

Print Server function: This function integrates the printer server on the home Broadband Router and shares a printer with all users in the LAN through a dedicated printer chip and a USB interface, the router will assign an IP address to the printer connected to the USB interface, and other LAN users can directly use the network printer through this IP address. This function is generally provided by office routers. Because it requires chips, the cost is relatively high. routers that support the printing server function are several hundred more expensive than other similar products.

These functions are not practical for home users. They can be said to be transplanted from other professional-purpose routers, especially the printing server function, which will greatly increase the price of routers, it is really not very economical. If SOHO users use it, they can.

Virtual dialing function: This function is essential for home broadband routers. Otherwise, this router cannot be called home broadband routers, because ADSL Broadband itself requires virtual dialing. After the virtual dialing is set, after a vro is started or restarted, the user-entered account and password will be used for dialing. That is to say, as long as the vro is in the active state, it will remain online, monthly subscription users can use the virtual dial-up function to save the trouble of dialing each time they access the internet. If they are not monthly subscription users, the vro will remain online all the year round after the virtual dial-up is set, which is dangerous, the monthly network fee will increase by a large amount. If it is residential broadband, it is a type of LAN, which automatically obtains IP addresses without virtual dialing. Web Interface Management: The current home routers are all web interface management, which is very convenient to use, just like accessing the Internet at ordinary times. These two functions are the most essential of a home Broadband Router, as long as it is a home Broadband Router, it is certainly supported.

Summary

Finally, let's talk about some interesting things: in fact, the vro also has CPU and memory, which is equivalent to a small computing, and also has its own operating system and program code, well-written systems and programs can greatly improve the stability and execution efficiency of routers. When developing these software, the router manufacturer often deletes and modifies the enterprise router software system with the same CPU to reduce the development cost, we have observed several brands of broadband routers and low-end home broadband routers. Their software versions are basically the same, generally only the last small bit, this is probably why such a home Broadband Router has enterprise-level router functions. Of course, some features are rarely used by home users, such as DMZ, DDNS, and virtual servers. Of course, it is gratifying that enterprise-level routers have better system kernels, it is stable and highly efficient, and it is also very good for mobile users. However, if you turn off some seemingly redundant features, the performance of household products is not very good, opening some extra services is boring.