Asante AWRT-550N The New Simplest Wireless Hotspot N Router/USB shared printer (Mac/PC)

The innovative features of this design include:
1) It can smartly redirect a login page and authenticate user whenever user bring up a browser. - This significantly eliminates the burden to user who needs to remember the IP address and technologies and figure out how to access a router.

2) It can be reached by entering “smarthub” on any browser and anytime. This design makes SmartHub become a very friendly device instead of awkward IP address.

3) It can manage a list of user’s name and password so that administrator can easily create/delete/monitor the user status without entering computer’s machine ID(MAC address) or dynamic changing IP address).

4) Offers 2 levels of security system - (a) user access control and (b) wireless security where user can has it discretion to select its provisioning depend on its need. Today’s Wifi encryption is a complex technology that vertically increase the challenge to all users to know how to use it. And yet, SmartHub gives a very efficient way and also retain wifi security requirements.

5) This access control method can persistently authenticate user whenever user’s trying to reconnect to SmartHub. New user could be easily added on by creating a username and password in a minute. Likewise, it can be erased afterward and without changing entire security setting. Today’s Wifi static system, administrator may need to force to change setting after new user is off and impact to all existing user to adopt new setting.

6) Smarthub’s smart access control method could be disabled if user has no need to control security in this fashion. Simple go to Advanced Set Up-> management, and disable it.