SMC moves away from the chunky Barricade-g boxes to a slimmed down and extremely lightweight silver plastic chassis with Barricade N Broadband Router. A useful feature is the small switch at the rear which allows you to physically disable the wireless access point. No installation utilities are provided but none are needed as the router’s management interface provides plenty of wizard-based assistance. For router security features there’s little between SMC and D-Link’s DIR-655 but the latter’s Gigabit ports make it look a far better deal – especially as it only costs a few pounds more.

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