Edimax promises fully wireless router for 2010

Stephen Withers
Tuesday, 08 December 2009 10:50

Your IT - Home IT

Taiwan-based Edimax plans to deliver its first 3G router to the Australian market in early 2010. 3G, Wi-Fi and a battery mean it will be able to operate in a completely wireless mode.

Edimax has announced it will release its 3G-6210n 3G wireless router early next year.

Features will include a USB port for connecting a wireless modem, a 10/100M Ethernet port for connection to a cable or DSL modem, 802.11b/g Wi-Fi, a Li-ion battery, and a mini USB charger.

"For employees away from the office, needing to keep up to date with emails and work, the battery powered Edimax 3G-6210n will not only solve the offline issue through sharing of wireless 3G USB device but will eliminate the need to be in areas that do not have the convenience of power points," company officials said.

The unit measures just 102 x 69 x 16mm.

The usual network alphabet soup is included: NAT, WEP/WPA/WPA2, WPS, DHCP, MAC filtering, URL blocking, DDNS, WMM, QoZ, DMZ, UPnP, and VPN pass-through.

No price was mentioned in the announcement.

The 3G-6210n won't be the first battery powered 3G wireless router to reach the Australian market. In October, Virgin Mobile introduced a battery-powered 3G wireless modem router and WiFi access point that enables three computers to simultaneously access the Internet over the Optus 3G network.