[MediaMole]

The Zonealarm system will provide extra security at a price, but unless you have very naive users (young kids?) who click on any link they see, it won’t provide much more protection than a good router and anti-virus software.

It’s more substantial negative is the proprietary Super-G Wifi system. Unless you have Super-G cards (atheros chipset, primarily in Netgear and D-Link cards) the router will run at standard 54mbps speeds.

I would recommend getting a Wifi-N router. Any new laptop will include a Wireless-N card, so it makes sense to get an N router even though the speed boost isn’t quite all the way to 300mpbs. N also features greater range, so you will see an improvement even with a standard G card.

I have the Belkin N1 router and have been very happy with it. You really want to avoid the Pre-N routers now that the final draft standard has been approved. You want to look for a router that supports the “Draft 2.0” specification, which is the final spec.

[Yosemitest]

My Laptop is 2001 technology. My 802.11 is either b or g .

My brother to me to check out an SMC 7004AWBR Barricade Wireless Broadband Router because of the connections.

One RJ45 10BaseT Ethernet WAN
Three RJ45 10/100BaseT switched Ethernet LAN
One DB9M "COM" port.
One DB25F parallel printer port.
Power

He said it's hard to find one of these for sale because of their age(2001).

[Yosemitest]

Do you know if this router,
an D-Link DI-724P Wireless 802.11g High-Speed 54Mbps1 Broadband Router w/ Parallel Port Print Server,
is any good?

Also, What do you think of the D-Link DI-724GU Gigabit Office Router?

My printers are old and have parallel serial ports.