Review: ZyWall Cuts the Wires Using 3G

By Fahmida Y. Rashid, ChannelWeb Wireless routers are fairly ubiquitous—there's probably one in your local McDonald's, a handful in residential areas, and at least two or three in the workplace and neighboring offices. While these routers extend connectivity to portable devices and notebooks, giving users access to the Internet at anytime without tethering them to the desk, they have one flaw: When the local wired connection—the broadband service—goes down, there goes the Internet access. For small and home-based businesses in areas where broadband is not available or too expensive, the only options are satellite or dial-up. Networking manufacturer ZyXel attempts to address these two issues with its ZyWall 2WG wireless router. ZyWall 2WG is an 802.11a/b/g-capable security appliance that works with an existing wired network,... [read full story]