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Issue 11 1 2 3 4 home m o v ies Digita l mov ies the s tream ing m edia Clear playe r we LO VE the a irwav ble W es iFi Mobil e bro stay o adban nline while d dea you’r e out ls get m ore r elia and a bout CONTENTS Issue 11 Published by Cogent Insights Pty Ltd ACN 117 911 725 Custom Publishing Division for D-Link Australia Pty Ltd PO Box K560 Haymarket NSW 1240 Ph 02 9011 8134 Fx 02 8572 6063 Publisher: John Pospisil [email protected] Proofreader: Janine Toms Designer: Ian Tjhan, Putra Agung [email protected] D-Link is a worldwide leader and award-winning designer, developer and manufacturer of networking, broadband, Wireless, digital electronics, and voice and data communications solutions for the digital home, Small Office/Home Office (SOHO), Small to Medium Business (SMB), and Workgroup to Enterprise environments. With global manufacturing International Standards Organization ISO 9001, 9002, ISO 14001 Certifications and numerous National Technical Excellence awards earned for R&D and manufacturing, D-Link delivers product excellence, quality, reliability, compatibility, high-performance within standards, and easy installation software, educational materials, and manuals. D-Link is a dominant market participant and price/performance leader in the network and communications market. D-Link has been profitable every year since its inception in 1986, and continues to grow at a rate that will allow the Company to experience continued prosperity. D-Link sets the standards for market affordability, while focusing on Building Networks for People. Features 4 NEWS: Slash power consumption with Green Ethernet. Find out how easy it is to save money and help the environment by using lower power network switches. 5 NEWS: World’s most versatile portable hard drive? Is it a bird... is it a plane... or is it a hard drive case that can be connected to either a network or a PC via USB! 6 FEATURE: Clear the airwaves! Do you get the feeling that your WiFi at home isn’t going as fast as it should be? We show you how to get on to the less congested 5GHz frequency. 8 COVER FEATURE: The digital media streamer we love. This networked digital movie player developed in conjunction with DivX “just works”. Find out how to play movies from your PC on your TV over a network. 10 HOT PRODUCTS: Mobile broadband made easy. If you wish you could stay connected when you’re away from home/the office, these sweet wireless broadband deals are for you. 11 PRODUCT GUIDE: Your shopping guide to D-Link’s latest networking gear. Wow, what a jam-packed month! Good stuff comes in clumps, it seems. There’s so much interesting new technology in this edition that I don’t know where to begin. However, what’s exciting me most at the moment is the incredible potential of mobile broadband. I never thought I’d say this, but in Australia it’s now terrific value, thanks to the fierce competition between the four mobile networks. When you can get 2GB of mobile broadband for $29 a month, that stacks up incredibly cheaply compared to the $29.95 ADSL plans offering somewhere between 200-500MB! Turn to page 10 to read about the hot new hardware you need to take advantage of these deals. Internet-delivered movies are also becoming a hot space. I’d be the first to say that playing digital media to your TV has been a slow-developing area with a lot of bumps along the way. Our latest streaming device, developed in conjunction with DivX, is, I believe, the first digital streamer that truly gets it right. Read about why on page 8. And how to get a clear and true WiFi signal is explained on page 6. It’s thanks to new consumer networking products, offering many more transmission channels that don’t overlap with your neighbour’s wireless networks. Enjoy the mag – hope you find it as exciting as I have to put together. Maurice Famularo Marketing Director D-Link Australia 3 Ethernet routers 4 Slash your power Save up to 40% of your power with D-Link's world first Green Ethernet routers. D id you know that a regular Ethernet switch could be wasting power 24 hours a day by pumping out enough electricity on each port to push a signal 100 metres down a wire, even though most people only need a fraction of that? With hundreds of millions of Ethernet connected devices in use around the world, the amount of wasted power is staggering, contributing to increased costs for companies and home computer users, and increased carbon emissions from power stations. Research from Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory estimates that if every Ethernet device in the US switched to energy-efficient Ethernet, up to $US300 million in power could be saved. Unfortunately, energy-efficient Ethernet technology may not be commercially available until 2012, but D-Link’s new Green Ethernet switches are offering a solution today that can cut power consumption dramatically. They work by throttling down the power output on each port to the lowest level possible, rather than pumping out the full signal all the time, as most switches do. For example, a computer that is connected using 20 metres of Ethernet (typical for a small office where cable has been run through a ceiling from a central router) can save 9.3% of power consumption. The Green Ethernet router can sense the cable length and tailor power output precisely. There’s absolutely no reduction in performance with Green Ethernet: the same 10/100/1000 speeds achievable with regular network hardware are attainable. And when a computer is switched off, a Green Ethernet switch can almost completely turn off power on that computer’s port, saving 85.65% of power consumption. Considering most computers are switched off overnight, this averages out to power savings of between 20 and 40 per cent, depending on the model of switch used. Other benefits of Green Ethernet Large power savings are undeniably the most attractive feature of Green Ethernet. But there are other benefits too – for example, the reduced power consumption of the device means longer life for the circuits in the device. And (although this is not exclusive to Green Ethernet devices) full compliance with the Reduction of Hazardous Substance (RoHS) directive means metals and chemicals used in the construction of the device have been selected for minimum impact on the environment upon disposal. How It Works In a typical office, computers will be on for 8-10 hours a day, and switched off for 14-16 hours. But, crazily, most Ethernet switches use a high power level for each port, even when the computers are switched off. D-Link’s Green Ethernet switches reduce power to almost nothing when they detect that a PC is switched off, saving 80% of power consumption. It makes perfect sense when you think about it, but D-Link is the first company that made it a reality. The Ethernet standard was designed with a power level strong enough to send signal down a cable 100 metres. However, in most offices and homes, cable length is 20 metres or less. D-Link’s Green Ethernet routers can precisely sense cable length and adjust power output to suit. Larger switches join the Green Ethernet family D-Link’s Green Ethernet family has grown, due to popular demand. Now, in addition to the existing DGS-1005D, 5-port desktop switch and the DGS-1008D 8-port desktop switch, there are also larger business-grade 16-port and 24-port switches available. So, how much can you save overall? With office computers switched off for 14 hours per day, D-Link’s Green Ethernet switch can save you up to 40% on your power bill for the switch. 5 D-Link's new DNS-313 can be connected to your home network for easy file access, but when you need to take your data with you, it can plug in to a computer anywhere via USB. Take data with you The great thing about the DNS-313 is that you can also use it as a regular USB external hard drive, even without a network. So, when you need to take your data to work or to a friend’s place, just unplug it from the network and plug the 313 into a computer using standard USB. (Because the DNS-313 takes 3.5” hard drives, which have a higher power demand than USB ports supply, a power adaptor is still required, as with all 3.5” drive enclosures.) The unit looks terrific too – a sleek, matte aluminium case with a silver front and inset glowing blue square around the D-Link logo. It’s solidly constructed, but installing the hard drive couldn’t be easier – you just slip the front off, slide the drive in and put the case back on. There are no cables or fiddly screws to deal with. A supplied CD comes with a software wizard to fully configure the drive as you want it. The DNS-313 remains operating system independent, which means you can plug it in and use it on a Windows or Linux PC, or an Apple Mac, without having to load any special drivers. A dedicated drive enclosure like the DNS-313 can also extend the life of your hard drive, as it will spin down and put the hard drive into power-saving mode when it is not actively being used to save or retrieve data. Prolonged heat generation is a significant cause of hard drive failure, and this is caused by extended fully-on operation. G hen CNET Australia gave D-Link’s DNS-323 network storage unit a rating of 9/10, it wasn’t without good reason. CNET’s Craig Simms wrote it was “surprisingly sexy” in appearance, had “easy to use, flexible software” and was “server laden, running its own FTP server, UPnP AV server, iTunes server and DHCP server, making sure that all the data kept on the device is accessible to the outside world.” Simms was experiencing what thousands of people have recently discovered: the convenience of large amounts of hard drive storage available on a home network and accessible over the internet. Now, the same technology that runs the DNS-323 is being made available in an even more affordable unit: the DNS-313. This singledisk drive enclosure can accommodate any SATA hard drive (with capacities of up to 1,000GB and larger when they become available) and can make its contents accessible to all computers on a home network, or over the internet. JP W DNS-313 Sleek, sexy, capable and affordable Why network storage is better A networked hard drive can be used to back up all home PCs using automatic backup software, rather than having to remember to plug an external hard drive into multiple PCs (the 313 comes with MEMO backup software) You can store your whole family’s iTunes music library on the device, as the DNS-313 has an inbuilt iTunes server, freeing up hard drive space on each computer Log in remotely and access files from work or while on trips using the FTP functionality built into the device Stream movies, music and photos to network media players that support UPnP – AV – store your entire digital library on one drive Schedule downloads to take place directly on the DNS-313 overnight, when your ISP offers free or bonus download allowance. (Once your download is complete, the DNS-313 can go into power-saving mode.) 5 hard disk World's most versatile portable hard disk? Clear the airwaves for more reliable WiFi 23 4 5 Wireless networking is a revolution in convenience, but cordless phones and microwaves compete for same frequency - not to mention other networks in the neighbourhood 1 WiFi 6 I f you’ve been using wireless networking for a while, you’ll no doubt be a fan of the ability to flip open a laptop anywhere in the house and have internet connectivity. Not to mention the convenience of being able to put a network connected printer in a cupboard out of sight, connect wireless music players around the house, and so on. But, like any technology that relies upon radio waves, it’s not immune to interference. The 802.11g wireless networking standard was designed to counter interference automatically using a technique called time division multiplexing – essentially, waiting for gaps of radio silence before transmitting more. But the huge uptake of wireless networking in densely inhabited environments, like large apartment complexes, can pose performance challenges. For example, you might notice your wireless network drops out occasionally, requiring a reconnect, or speeds might not be as good as they were before. This problem may be exacerbated by the use of cordless phones in the area, which quite often use the 2.4GHz frequency. And since microwave ovens also use the same 2.4GHz radio frequency, the intense radio activity going on inside them may block WiFi signals. mit for longer distances than 5GHz, for example. So, if you have a very large home, a troublesome building structure that seems to be blocking signals, or you want to transmit between buildings, 2.4GHz may well do the job better than 5GHz. But for heavily congested areas, 5GHz reigns supreme. An elegant solution for clearing the airwaves With so many devices sharing the 2.4GHz radio frequency, it’s lucky that some of the latest wireless networking products support an entirely different frequency – 5GHz. Even though there are a small number of devices using this frequency (the most expensive cordless phones, for example), it is relatively unpolluted. Not only is 5GHz a less busy radio frequency, it is split up into 23 separate channels, whereas the 2.4GHz frequency only has three non-overlapping channels. It’s easy to see why 2.4GHz – used by 802.11b and 802.11g – became so crowded, so quickly. D-Link’s latest wireless router – the DGL-4500 – supports dualband – meaning it can transmit and receive on either the 2.4GHz or the 5GHz frequencies. Having 2.4GHz compatibility is essential for use with older WiFi devices, but the clear 5GHz frequency can be used for devices that support the 5GHz band. You can’t use both frequencies at once, though, so to ensure you get maximum performance, pair your router up with a matching D-Link 5GHz adaptor for your PC or notebook – you’ll find you get less interfrence from the less-cluttered airwaves. Having 2.4GHz available is still very useful – it may be able to trans- DGL-4500 Using 802.11n, the router is able to perform multiple transactions on different antennas Why does it have three antennas? The DGL-4500 is a Multi Input/Multi Output router, which means it uses three antennas to transmit and receive across numerous different frequencies at once. This is how it achieves its extraordinary speeds – up to 300Mbit/s (this is a theoretical maximum; in day to day use, speeds may be slower). 7 7 WiFi What else is cool about the DGL-4500? OLED info display Getting info about your router – number of users connected wirelessly, the router’s address on the network, whether wireless security is enabled, and so on – can be accessed at a glance using the organic light emitting diode (OLED) display built into the top of the unit. Other routers have to be logged into via a web browser to gather that information. Not so the DGL-4500. It’s a small feature, but a big convenience. USB port for Windows Connect Now Setting up wireless security is – frankly – not as easy as it could be. It’s a problem faced by all the brands of networking hardware in the industry because the technical standard for wireless networking sets out how the security must work. D-Link has been leading the industry in making setting up wireless security easier. Working in partnership with Microsoft, the DGL-4500 now supports Windows Connect Now, which allows you to use the Windows wireless networking wizard to set everything up on your PC, then simply save the settings onto a USB memory key and plug it in to the USB port on the back of the router. Presto, everything will be set up. WiFi Protected Setup DGL-4500 Information at a glance – even in dark environments! Speaking of easy set-up of wireless, if you have Windows Vista, you’ll be able to use an even easier method of setting things up using the DGL-4500 – WiFi Protected Setup. The router has a PIN written on the bottom (also viewable on the OLED display) which is all you need to type in to your computer to create a secure WiFi connection. Of course, if you don’t want people to be able to do that, you can turn the WPS function off after you’ve connected your main computers. Gigabit wired networking Most routers come with wired network ports that top out at 100Mbit/s. While that’s fast, there are some tasks that really benefit from faster networking, such as transferring very large video files between computers on a network. The DGL-4500’s ports support 10 times faster networking than most routers, with a top speed of 1,000Mbit/s. (Of course, the computer or device you are connecting to the router must support 1,000Mbit/s speed as well to achieve this speed.) Gamefuel for high-performance gaming When you have different family members making VoIP phone calls over the internet, downloading files, watching YouTube videos, sending and receiving emails, and so on, how do you stop your connection from becoming congested? “Quality Of Service” is the technical solution – it allows you to specify that certain types of time-critical data is more important than other data. However, setting it up is extremely tricky unless you have detailed networking knowledge. The DGL-4500 includes D-Link’s patented Gamefuel technology, which automatically identifies gaming data and rushes it straight to the front of the queue when there is any network congestion. Less important data requests get told to wait, while gaming data is transferred straight through. The result is responsive gaming, where network “lag” no longer affects your gaming experience. gamefuel Gamefuel puts your gaming data first for speedy performance. Broadband 8 Finally, somebody has made a decent digital media streamer! We'll be the first to say the journey towards streaming digital movies to your TV has been a bumpy road and a long time coming. But for possibly the first time, we think someone's got it right with D-Link DSM-330 R emember when MP3s started becoming popular for storing music? You were probably well ahead of your friends who all owned sleek portable CD players and couldn’t see why on earth you’d want to spend hours ripping CDs to your computer. Then, along came the iPod and quite possibly, those same friends thought its initial $999 price tag would doom it to certain failure. But you might have been one of the people who bought one anyway, because the idea of carrying your whole music library in your pocket made so much sense, and was so revolutionary for its time. Today, of course, digital music is the industry, with CD sales plumetting and digital music starting to outsell the largest “bricks and mortar” retailers in the US for the first time. All the signs are that people love downloading movies too, rather than having to trudge down to the video store to hire movies and pay the associated late fees when they take them back. Illegal movie downloads are going at a furious rate – but in countries where legal movie downloads have been made available at reasonable prices, there has been huge uptake, to the surprise of pundits who said online movie piracy was only popular because it was free. The trouble is: while playing movie files on your PC is easy enough, playing them on a TV just isn’t easy. Choices have included staggeringly expensive “media center PCs”, hacked game consoles running illegal software, or “network media adaptors” that froze half way through a video. It’s no surprise, then, that the hardware category of network streaming video hasn’t exactly been a roaring success in the same way the iPod took off. Easy to setup, smooth video playback We think the DSM-330 is a media player that gets it right. For a start, it supports the most popular digital video format in the industry – DivX (and the open source equivalent, Xvid), and can stream it from files stored on your PC right up to enhanced definition 720p resolution. The beauty of the DSM-330, though, is that it can play formats other than DivX, like Windows Media Video, because it uses the full power of your PC’s processor to convert files to DivX format as you play them. This is a huge benefit. If you’ve tried other digital media players like DVD players with inbuilt DivX playback, you might have discovered that the basic decoding chips in these systems aren’t fast enough to decode certain highly detailed, fast-moving action scenes, or high-definition content. The DSM-330, on the other hand, has all the power of your PC at its disposal. This process, called “transcoding”, works best on PCs made in the last few years that have a dual-core processor,but for standard definition movies it will work fine on many older PCs too (the minimum is a 1.6GHz Pentium 4 with 512MB RAM, Windows XP and 60MB hard drive space. It also works with Windows Vista). New features free of charge Another great thing about having your PC handle all the video transcoding functions is that every time DivX updates its DivX Connected software (http://labs.divx.com/ConnectedDownload) your DSM-330 automatically benefits from the new features. Even more impressively, the DivX Connect software is open source, meaning the software’s source code is freely available to the enthusiast community to modify and extend. This means over time, additional online services and file formats will be supported by the software and your DSM-330. You can see a list of the current plugins at http://labs.divx.com/connected/plugins. For example, enthusiasts have already created plugins for the DivX Connected system that provide Google Maps, Flickr photos, Google Moon, and many more – all visible on your TV screen 9 Broadband 9 through the DSM-330. To connect your DSM-330 to your home network, you have the choice of wired Ethernet networking for maximum reliability, or WiFi 802.11g (which works well up to 720p resolution.) The menu system on the DSM-330 is beautifully designed and incredibly easy to use. There’s a demo on the DivX Connected website showing the interface in action – see the video at http://labs. divx.com/ConnectedCommunity and http://labs.divx.com/connected/ plugins DSM-330 The DSM-330 has a gorgeous, smooth interface provided through the DivX Connected PC software. Connect it to any TV – the DSM330 has every connector you’d need for mainstream TVs. right, with a full-size remote control with all the buttons you’d expect in a video player. Connecting it to your TV One grumble people often have with digital media players is that they often only come with a limited number of connectors, and therefore can’t be connected to a wide range of TVs easily. For example, the Apple TV only comes with HDMI or component video, which Apple says should only be used with a widescreen enhanced definition or high definition TV. The D-Link DSM-330 comes with all the connectivity options you’ll need to hook it up to any kind of TV, whether it’s an older CRT, right through to the latest high definition LCD/Plasma flat panel. It includes Component, Composite, S-Video, HDMI and even SCART. On the audio side of things, it includes regular stereo RCA analogue, optical digital, coaxial digital, so you really can connect it to anything. One comment you’ll see consistently in reviews across the web about the DSM-330 is that it’s “easy to setup!” Buyers who’ve tried several digital media players in the past seem to be breathing a collective sigh of relief that finally, someone has made a top-notch player. Future of legal movie download: DivX Music and pictures play well too The DSM-330’s DivX Connected software also does a great job of playing music – supported formats include MP3 and WMA. Photo slideshows can be displayed with JPEG, JPEG2000 and Uncompressed BMP images included. More photo, audio and video formats can be added by configuring the DivX Connected software – these are just the formats that are supported “out of the box”. Full-power remote control For some reason, makers of network media players think it’s a cool idea to make their remote controls extremely small, with as few buttons as possible. There are endless justifications for this, but in practice, what it really means is they get lost down the cracks of your sofa cushions, and you end up being frustrated with a lack of buttons to access features of the device directly. The DSM-330 gets this side of things D-Link isn’t the only company charging ahead with DivX Connected technology: Sony Pictures Television has announced it will make TV programs available for secure download using DivX. Although Sony Pictures Television hasn’t announced a release date for the service (or detailed which parts of the world it will be available in), it’s an exciting move for digital video distribution, since DivX is already such a popular format for internet distributed movies, with such a wide installed base. Sony Pictures Television makes some of the world’s most popular TV shows including Dawsons Creek, Seinfeld, The Shield, Ripley’s Believe it or Not and Stuart Little. D-Link’s DSM-330 player is Divx Connected certified, which means it will be able to play TV shows from Sony Pictures Television (and other content providers) once the services are released in Australia. Ports, ports, ports – the DSM-330 can be connected to virtually any type of TV 10 Broadband Mobile broadband made easy Mobile broadband promises incredible convenience: faster-than-ADSL speeds, connected through mobile networks. With low monthly fees and big usage allowances, it’s a perfect time to get connected. W hen you consider that many ISPs offer 200MB of usage for $29.95 on wired ADSL, but one mobile network now offers 2GB of usage (10 times 200MB) for $29, it’s little wonder so many people are choosing to use mobile broadband when they’re out and about, or even as a total replacement for home cable or ADSL broadband. Speed is terrific too. Every Australian mobile network – Optus, 3, Vodafone and Telstra – all run high-speed downlink packet access (HSDPA) wireless broadband services that typically deliver at least a 1Mbit/s connection per customer, but on some networks, up to 7.2 Mbit/s downloads and 384 Kbit/s uploads. These speeds are not only competitive with a wired broadband connection, they’re fast enough to be shared among multiple computer users at once – an amazing step forward in wireless broadband technology. network, which means you’re not free to move to another network if a better deal becomes available. D-Link’s DWM-652 ExpressCard frees you from being locked to a particular carrier, as you can put any carrier’s SIM card into it and connect. It also has software support for Windows Vista, Windows XP and Mac OS X 10.3 and 10.4, so you can use it with any laptop. One really cool feature is that it also comes with a slot-in pocket that allows the card to be connected to a USB port, so even if your laptop doesn’t have a card slot, you’ll be able to use the DWM-652. The card has support for 850MHz with diversity antennas, which means it is perfect for use on the Telstra Next G network, and it also supports the 1900/2100MHz bands, so it’s compatible with 3, Optus and Vodafone as well. And of course, the DWM-652 works well with the D-Link DIR-451 3G wireless router! What’s the catch? The main drawback with wireless broadband is that the mobile networks don’t offer the same range of networking hardware that traditional ISPs do. Typically, they offer a laptop card option, or a USB adaptor. That’s great for a single computer, but in an era where most computers have WiFi and Ethernet built in, those single-user dongles make sharing the internet difficult. D-Link’s latest router, the DIR-451, makes sharing mobile broadband easy. PCMCIA and USB slots at the back allow you to plug in mobile broadband cards in either the PCMCIA form factor or the ExpressCard 34 size (with a PCMCIA adaptor). The router handles dialing the mobile network broadband service, then multiple users can access it through WiFi or by plugging an Ethernet cable into one of the four 10/100 ports on the back of the router. D-Link Australia’s team has been hard at work making the DIR-451 completely easy to set up. You simply slot your mobile broadband card in and use the Web-based wizard to choose the appropriate mobile network and card model. The DIR-451 ships with configurations already installed for Optus, Telstra, 3 and Vodafone, and support for all the popular wireless broadband cards sold in Australia – see the table “Compatibility”. Don’t have a mobile broadband card yet? All the mobile networks provide a broadband card, often with a cheap up-front price, or free. But they are usually locked to the Compatibility Operator Name Telstra D-Link DWM-652 Option GT MAX GX0201/GX0202 Sierra AirCard 880E Sierra AirCard 875 ZTE MF332 Optus D-Link DWM-652 Option GT MAX GX0201/GX0202 Sierra AirCard 880E Huawei E220 3 D-Link DWM-652 Merlin XU870 Huawei E220 Vodafone D-Link DWM-652 Huawei E620 Huawei E220 11 Business on the go When so many people already have internet at home and work, you might be wondering why mobile broadband is necessary. Here are four real-life scenarios. Case study: Business on the go The problem: Libby’s gourmet hampers business is booming, so she’s booked a stand at the Good Food and Wine Show. However, her business has been set up for online ordering, and she’s concerned that it won’t be easy for her and her staff to take hamper orders without internet access at the show. Libby already has a mobile broadband service through a mobile network for her laptop (but only has one card so far). The solution: Libby can insert her mobile broadband card into a D-Link DIR-451 router, allowing other staff at the stand – who’ll each have their own PC – to take orders, connecting to the router via Ethernet cables. Libby can also check her email while walking around the show checking out other suppliers’ stands, on her WiFi enabled PDA. Case study: Combat crazy hotel bills The problem: As a lead salesperson for a business software company, John regularly travels interstate to make presentations to customers on their premises, and catches up on work in the hotel. But accessing the net at clients’ premises is often tricky – especially if multiple PCs are involved in the demo – and internet hotel bills are really mounting up, at an average fee of $30 a day. The solution: John is right in questioning those $30 per day hotel bills – $30 a month sounds more reasonable! By packing a DIR455 mobile broadband router, John can take mobile broadband with him to demos and provide internet access to multiple computers at once – either through WiFi or Ethernet. When he gets back to the hotel room, he can work, using a WiFi connection from his laptop to the DIR-451 mobile broadband router, rather than having to plug in to the hotel’s wired internet connection. Presto – hotel bill shock cured. (And while John’s at it, he can fire up Skype and make cheap or free internet calls rather than using the hotel’s pricey phone.) Case study: Router on the road The problem: Roger runs a bus tour company that takes passengers on guided tours throughout country areas. One of the perennial problems he has is customers who ask if the coach can stop at a town with an internet cafe, because they need to check for an important email or make a bank transaction. He’s also looking for a way to differentiate his business from others that travel the same routes. The solution: Roger signs up for a wireless service with a mobile network that has the best coverage nationwide for wireless broadband. He chooses the plan with the highest usage allowance and installs a DIR-451 router in the roof of the bus, allowing customers to stay connected during the trip, on iPods, smartphones and laptops. He provides this as a free service for customers, which proves to be a catchy selling feature. When Roger’s having some R&R, he can take the card out of the router and use it in his own laptop at home. Case study: Beach holiday bonus The problem: Vince is a uni student who is inviting 12 friends to stay for a week in a huge holiday house in Byron Bay. However, several of his friends are completing university assignments, while another is working on a big project at work, and they’re hesitant to go away for the week without email access. The solution: Vince buys a 3G SIM and dataplan, and a D-Link DWM652 mobile broadband card, because he knows it will be useful for his own studies – being able to access the internet anywhere on campus will be a huge benefit. He also invests in a DIR-451 router so that he can share the internet easily with all his friends at the holiday house. Case studies 11 Products 12 Technology guide Wireless N Wireless N DGL-4500 Xtreme N Gigabit Gaming Router DIR-655 Xtreme N Gigabit Router Remove network bottlenecks for high-performance wireless network gaming. This Xtreme N router has Gigabit Ethernet switch ports and features 2.4GHz & 5GHz dual band wireless LAN. Additionally it has Gamefuel technology which is ideal for gaming, VoIP and scheduled downloading over the network. This high-performance Xtreme N router features Gigabit Ethernet switch ports for increased throughput on the local network. Advanced features including wireless security, QoS (data prioritisation software ideal for VoIP, scheduled downloads etc…) and loads more. DIR-635 RangeBooster N 650 Router This RangeBooster N 650 router provides highperformance on both the local wireless network and the connection to the Internet. This allows you to be connected throughout your entire home and make the most of flawless VoIP calls, gaming and video streaming. DIR-615 Wireless N Router The entry level Wireless N router is ideal for those who want extended range and achieve greater speed than older 802.11g wireless routers. Ideal for those who want to share the connection, browse the web and access emails. DWA-140 RangeBooster N USB Adaptor Powered by RangeBooster N technology, this USB adapter allows you to send and receive Wireless N signals in addition to older 802.11g/b signals. Can be used in both a Desktop and Notebook computer. DWA-556 Xtreme N PCI Express Desktop Adapter Get an Xtreme N connection for your desktop by connecting the DWA-556 to any standard PCI Express Slot. Ideal for the power user that doesn’t want to have ugly Ethernet cables all around the place while still be able to achieve a high-speed connection. DWA-547 RangeBooster N 650 Desktop Adapter DWA-643 Xtreme N Notebook ExpressCard Adapter Easily upgrade your desktop to a RangeBooster N 650 adapter to deliver unrivalled wireless performance on the latest draft 802.11n and experience network speeds of up to 300Mbps. Get an Xtreme N connection for your notebook by connecting the DWA-556 to any standard ExpressCard Slot. Ideal for the power user on the go that wants to achieve a high-speed connection. DWA-645 DWA-645 RangeBooster 650 Notebook Adapter Easily upgrade from your built-in notebook adapter to a RangeBooster N 650 adapter to deliver unrivalled wireless performance on the latest draft 802.11n and experience network speeds of up to 300Mbps. 13 Wireless G Products 13 Wireless G is great if you use your connection to surf the web and check your email, and don't want to spend more than you need to. Works the best with DIR-300 Wireless G Router Create a wireless network for your home and share it securely with Tomizone using the D-Link Wireless G Router. The DIR-300 works best with the products on the right. DWA-510 Wireless G Desktop Adapter Connect to your wireless network from your desktop PC via a PCI slot using the DWA510 Wireless G Desktop Adapter and browse the web, check e-mail, and chat with friends and family online. DWA-610 Wireless G Notebook Adapter Easily connect to your wireless network and get online from your notebook computer via its 32-bit CardBus slot. Keeping your network secure and safe is made easy with WEP and WPA encryption. DWA-110 Wireless G USB Adapter With the Wireless G USB adapter you can connect either your desktop or notebook to any wireless 802.11g or 802.11b network. Using the supplied easy setup utility you will be connected to your wireless network in no time. Wireless 108G DI-624S Wireless 108G Storage Router Giving your Home or Office network that little bit more is the Wireless 108G Storage Router which allows you to attach storage devices, printers and share them across your wired or wireless network in addition to sharing the Internet securely. DWL-G520 Wireless 108G Desktop Adapter Create a wireless network connection on your desktop with this PCI adapter and minimize surrounding cabling, whilst still keeping the speeds you are used to from a cabled network. DWL-G650 Wireless 108G Notebook Adapter Create a wireless network connection on your notebook with this CardBus adapter and minimize surrounding cabling, whilst still keeping the speeds you are used to from a cabled network. DWL-G132 Wireless 108G USB Adaptor With the Wireless 108G USB adapter you can connect either your desktop or notebook to any wireless 802.11g or 802.11b network. Using the supplied easy setup utility you will be connected to your wireless network in no time. Products 14 Technology guide Voice Over Internet DPH-C160S DECT Cordless VoIp Phone Make the move to VoIP and save money on all your phone calls! This VoIP phone is an ideal choice as it is simple and easy to use while at the same time giving you the convenience of a normal cordless phone. DVA-G3340S Wireless ADSL2/2+ Triple Play Router The Triple Play Router is used together with a broadband connection and is a multi-function product with a built-in ADSL2/2+ modem, Wireless G Access Point, 4-port 10/100Mbps switch, VoIP and Triple Play features. DVG-G1402S Wireless G VoIP Broadband Router* Not only can you share the Internet through this unit but simply by plugging in your existing telephone you can begin making dramatically cheaper calls over the Internet too. Also provides wireless access for computers on your network while keeping them secure using WEP or WPA. DI-102 Broadband Internet/ VoIP Accelerator* Make VoIP phone calls jitterfree and clearer with the DI102 which features QoS technology. Intelligently identifying data this smart device can prioritise data to ensure clearer phone calls and lag-free online gaming. ADSL Modems & Routers DSL-2740B RangeBooster N ADSL/ADSL2/2+ Modem Router DSL-G804V Wireless ADSL2/2+ VPN Router Combine high-performance 802.11n wireless networking with ADSL 2/2+ speeds! The wireless modem router you need to create D-Link’s superfast wireless network in your home office. This Wireless G ADSL2/2+ router is a versatile, high-speed remote router designed for the small office or home office. It provides all the functions your home office or small office would need such as VPN, QoS, firewall protection and loads more. DSL-502T ADSL2/2+ Modem Router DSL-G604T Wireless ADSL2/2+ Router + Build-in 4-Port Switch Connect to and share high-speed Internet with this simple all in one modem router. Featuring NAT protection this unit provides added security from Internet intruders and hacker attacks. An ADSL2/2+ wireless broadband router (up to 24Mbps download speeds*) with 802.11g wireless networking, a 10/100 4-port switch & much more. * Your ISP must support and provide you with an ADSL 2, ADSL 2+ service for these features to be available. This product will operate as a standard ADSL modem when an ADSL 2/2+ service is not available. 15 Internet Security Camera and Surveillance Products 15 DCS-2120 Wireless Internet Camera for Home/SOHO A wireless Internet security camera that allows you to view a live video stream through a web browser or compatible 3G phones and PDAs when in 3G coverage. DCS-G900 Wireless G Internet Camera DCS-3220G Wireless 2-Way Audio Internet Camera A stand alone camera with built-in CPU and web server that transmits high quality video images for monitoring, and can be accessed remotely or controlled from any PC with Internet access. A fully featured surveillance system that connects to wired Ethernet or 802.11g wireless. Offers two way audio allowing you to talk to anyone at your camera site. Sharp video with lifelike colour, a 4x digital zoom and more. DCS-6620G Wireless IP Security Camera with Integrated Pan, Tilt, Zoom, Web Server & Motion Detection The ultimate wireless camera with pan, tilt, zoom, motion detection, a high-quality CCD sensor, remote web control and much, much more. The top of the range. Green Ethernet and SOHO Switches Computers do not require Internet access all the time; neither do switches utilise all ports at all times. When a computer or network equipment is shut down, switches often remain on and continue to consume considerable amounts of power. With Green Ethernet technology, D-Link switches can automatically detect link status and reduce power usage, in addition to measuring ethernet cable length and adjusting power accordingly. DGS-1005D Five-Port Gigabit Switch The Green Ethernet switch provides high-speed Gigabit throughput and allows you to simply and easily connect up to 5 computers. DGS-1008D Eight-Port Gigabit Switch Connect up to 8 computers at Gigabit speed using this more environmentally friendly Green Ethernet switch. DGS-1024D twenty-four Port Gigabit Switch Connect up to 24 clients using the smart functioning and more environmentally friendly Green Ethernet Gigabit Switch. Save power, money and extend product life with new innovative Green Ethernet technology.