The entire scope of delivery Design & workmanshipĪs always, we’ll start first with a look at the design and workmanship of the VIGOR GK50. In addition, there is also a USB-A to USB-C cable in the packaging, as well as a key puller and the user manual. The only thing wrapped in plastic are the two additional more rounded keycaps for ALT and CTRL. No additional plastic has been used here, which is a step in the right direction. At £176 ex VAT, it's beyond the budget or requirements of many SMBs, but if your business has expanding network requirements, this is ideal insurance against anything the future can throw at you.Opening the package, you are greeted by the keyboard located in the travel bag. We really appreciated the ability to configure multiple WAN connections for simultaneous or redundant use, and although its interface isn't as clearly designed as some, it has all the options you could possibly need. This is an excellent business router, even if you do have to subscribe to content filtering as an added extra. The own-brand dongle performed better in all but the most distant test, producing a transfer speed of 59.7Mbit/s in our near test, 68.1Mbit/s in our far test and 9.2Mbit/s in our very far test. Using the laptop's integrated wireless adaptor, we got a throughput of 37.7Mbit/s at a distance of 1m, a near identical 37.6Mbit/s at 10m and a surprisingly quick 22.6Mbit/s at 20m. We had to manually switch the router to an uncrowded channel to get a stable wireless connection. While many routers can auto-detect the best channel, the Vigor 2860n lacks this function. However, 2.4GHz is still the only band that really matters for business users as the vast majority of mobile devices are still restricted to it. This version of the Vigor 2860n only supports 2.4GHz Wi-Fi, but a version of this router with simultaneous 2.4GHz and 5GHz dual-band wireless is due out at the end of 2013. We tested the router's wireless transfer speeds using both our usual laptop's integrated Wi-Fi adaptor and Draytek's Vigor N65 wireless adaptor. In testing this, we found that not all our external disks were picked up by the router's USB server, which can only mount FAT32 drives up to 500GB in size. Other tools include bandwidth management options for specific IP ranges, whole subnets or your entire network, a virtual terminal that gives you command line access to the router's settings via the web interface, a fully-fledged VPN server and the ability to use the router's USB ports to share a USB printer or hard disk across your network.
Once again, different filtering rules can be applied to different users or departments. You can then select the categories you wish to block, such as nudity, drugs, games or dating websites. Once you've added a content filter, it'll create a new default content filtering profile.
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You can buy a licence, sold as the Draytek GlobalView Content Filter, for around £22 ex VAT or register for a free trial via the Wizard and later upgrade to the full version. Most of the options are tailored for German-speaking family users, but the Commtouch filter is an appropriate choice for UK businesses. More advanced content management is available as an optional feature through the router's Service Activation Wizard. While the configuration screens for these settings initially look a little obtuse, Draytek's online documentation is thorough and the examples available inside the web interface when you start creating rules and groups are helpful.
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You can, for example, create an IP group that includes the addresses of every PC in a department using the router's Objects Setting menus. Rules can be applied to specific users and groups as required. These can block certain kinds of internet traffic, such as games, instant messaging or P2P file sharing services. The firewall menu includes simple content filtering based on your own blacklists of URLS and general keywords, and the ability to create APP Enforcement Profiles. The router's NAT settings make it easy to open and forward ports, which you’ll need to do if your users ever need to access an online service or make a web or FTP server available outside your local network.
There's also an "isolate VPN" option, which prevents users on the SSID communicating with users who've connected to the network via a VPN. Each wireless SSID can be configured to "isolate member", which means that devices connected to it won't be able to see either each other or anything else on the network. The Vigor 2850n can provide up to four wireless networks, and you can easily create a Guest network so that visitors or staff can get online without having unrestricted access to other directories and devices shared on your network.
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