An Overview Your network or computer is protected over a wired Cable connection with a device as good as NetGear RP614 DSL/Cable Router with 4 Ethernet ports. There is no potential threat to your connection in comparison to a wireless as the device is integrated with state-of-art filter and gives you a better control to protect your network from any external threats and DoS attacks. Home users and gamers can enjoy the fast speed internet connection with very good upload and download speed allowing streaming of data and usage of IPTV with consistency and quality. Specifically for home usage, parent can use URL filtering to block unwanted websites and can also monitor internet activities. Built-in firewall protection provides a good level of security from hackers. An easy to use setup wizard guides the complete process till final reboot to save the setting and make the cable router functional to expectations. This device is compatible with any Ethernet cable and Internet Service Provider offering cable or DSL connection. Dynamic Operating System You can enjoy the fast web surfing by sharing this internet connection with your computers, files and print servers etc. at maximum you can have around 250 computers access the internet at an average. The device is dynamic to except connections from or distribute connections to Microsoft Windows, Apple Mac, Linux etc, giving them a good experience with there MP3 streaming/downloading or online multimedia and photos etc. the port forwarding feature with Dynamic DNS can redirect specific traffic to designated server handling the job. You are free to host any server or service and play as many online internet games etc. Protection from External threats You can use the web interface to connect to the device and can specify customer content filters with URL's, keywords etc to block an unsolicited access over your internet connection. If there happens to be such access, a real-time email notification can be configured to drop an email in your mailbox letting you know the details of such unwanted access attempt. A VPN pass-through can also be configured protecting any conversation going through the VPN tunnel. Default NAT is configured allowing transmission of data between internal and external network. Along with that you shall also receive FREE 1 year Freedom® security and privacy software subscription for 8 computers, which will block ads and preventing any form of personal information leak over the network. Overall, the moment cable router is plugged-in it would detect all 4 10/100 Mbps LAN ports automatically and optimizes the speed to provide equally distributes internet share to get a greater network performance (up to 200 Mbps with full-duplex) covering a distance of 100 m (328 ft). the router is having double memory and a 50% faster CPU than many other popular devices available in the market today. Internet applications that works exceptionally well through this device are Quake, AOL Instant messenger, MSN Instant Messenger, Half-Life, Microsoft NetMeeting, Star Craft, Real Player streaming, Unreal Tournament, ICQ, Windows Media Player, Net2Phone, DialPad etc.