the designs are similar. So any experimentation involving flashing the router with something other than SMC's firmware is at your own risk. One difference that I need to point out is that the VBR is the only one of the three to not have a heatsink on the ADMtek...

suspicion that, similar to many of the current crop of new-generation routers, it is based on the ADMtek 5106 Home Gateway Controller. The router had a very clean internal design, and although the ADMtek chip had no heatsink, seemed to run cool to the touch....

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what must have been a hard-fought battle for Microsoft's business. As the Org chart below from Accton's site shows, Accton is parent not only to SMC, maker of the Barricade router and EZ-Connect Wireless networking product lines, but also to chipmaker ADMtek....

How We Test SPI+NAT Routers. how we test spi. Some consumer-focused routers have for some time claimed to use Stateful Packet Inspection (SPI) in their firewalls. But the recent generation of boxes based on the ADMtek 5106 Home Gateway Controller, (which was...

Unlike its predecessor, which was based on the ADMtek 5106 Home Gateway Controller, the OfficeConnect 11g is based on GlobespanVirata's ISL3893 WiSOC (Wireless System-on-a-Chip). Figure 1 shows a very clean board design, with flash memory, RAM, ADMtek 6996...

routers / internet gateways, with most of the difference coming via the firmware that runs each product. Once in awhile, though, I see a new twist that bears noting, and this is certainly the case with the 114P. The 114P uses the ADMtek 5106 Home Gateway Controller,...

port range mapping • No wireless monitoring or MAC address Association controls • 30% throughput reduction with WEP enabled Given that SMC's original AMIT based line of Barricade routers were among my favorites, I've wanted to like their new AdmTek...

for prime time? Read our review and judge for yourself! . Like its single-band sibling, the 55AG is based on Broadcom's BCM4702 Wireless Network Processor, but uses a Broadcom BCM5325 5 port switch/PHY instead of the an ADMtek 6996 used in the WRT54G. It...

port switch+PHY found in the pro800Turbo. The Hawking, on the other hand, uses a more highly integrated design based on the ADMtek 5106 / Conexant CX84200 Network processor, which probably allows Hawking to have such aggressive pricing. The Hawking's four 10/...