The AOSS (AirStation One-Touch Secure System) allows you to securely connect to AOSS-enabled wireless clients and doubles as a WPS (Wi-Fi Protected Setup) button. Bottom line – if you see two solid green LEDs, the WMR-300 is working properly and is connected to the Internet. You can decode the various colors and blink sequences in the instruction manual which you can download here. The Power LED is a multi-color LED that can show you, using color and blink sequences, diagnostic information. The internet Access LED shows whether (solid green) or not (blinking green) you’re connected to the Internet. On the front of the WMR-300 you’ll find two LED indicators as well as an AOSS / WPS button. The maximum power consumption is 4.95W, so it’s just below the 0.5 amp rating of a standard USB port.Ī convenient snap-on case allows for storage of the included 23″ flat Ethernet cable. It’s powered by a built-in USB “pig tail” that you can connect to a USB power supply or to a USB port on a laptop. The router itself only measures 1.25″ X 1.25″ X 0.79″. The Buffalo AirStation WMR-300 is a two piece design that I call a "match book" style. Data was derived from product specification sheets, user manuals and, in some cases, contact with product marketing departments.Īs you can see from the product collage above, the N300 travel routers come in two slightly different form factors than the N150 devices. The chart should also make it easy to compare the N300 routers to the previously-reviewed N150 routers. To help you to sort through key features, I complied the same chart used for the N150 travel routers. Both connected to the internet by merely plugging an Ethernet cable into my network and plugging them into power. Both routers provide basic routing and connection sharing for wired Ethernet connections as well as an AP (access point) mode. Instead, ease of setup and feature set will tell you which one to buy.īoth routers are “N300” class, meaning that they support dual-stream 802.11n with a maximum link rate of 300 Mbps in the 40 MHz bandwidth mode and 130 Mbps in the recommended 20 MHz mode. But as we learned with the N150 routers, for this category, neither price nor performance are likely to be the deciding factors. With prices just slightly higher that the N150 class devices, you’d expect a bump in performance. But when we put the call out to manufacturers for their best-selling products, only two came in for this category. Only two routers makes for a mighty small round-up. This time, I’m llooking at two N300 class travel routers, Buffalo’s WMR-300 AirStation N300 Wireless Travel Router and NETGEAR’s PR2000 Trek N300 Travel Router and Range Extender. In that roundup, I thought that we had seen most of the form factors and feature sets that were likely to see in small, travel-oriented routers. All of the included products were based on “N150” single-stream technology. Several weeks ago, we published a roundup of N150 travel routers.
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