ASUS Pocket Router - New Age For Personal Routers

If you have ever been somewhere with a group of people and had a single Ethernet connection in the room you were working on, you completely understand the need to share that connection. You can carry around a small switch with you, but then you have to also carry around the associated network cables so that everyone in the room can make a connection. With every mobile device and laptop having WiFi, it makes things much simpler. But carrying around a WiFi Network switch is too large of a device given the shrinking size of devices. Today's Personal routers are much smaller, but are still large enough to add weight to what you are carrying.

Enter the Asus Pocket Router with a specific name of WL-330NUL and a claim to being the World's Smallest Router. And given that it is the size of a USB memory stick, they do have an extremely small wireless router. Operating as a USB 2.0 device, it can handle 10/100 Mbps WiFi connections and is perfect for those of us who are truly mobile and have a need to share a connection with others. Or to turn an Ethernet connection into a WiFi connection so you are not tethered to the wall. This small device is going to be a must have for all of us.

This small device weighs less than an ounce and since it is billed as a pocket router, it may not provide for more than a few people accessing the WiFi without experiencing some slow downs. The rated throughput based on the Asus site using b, g and n Wi-Fi is for speeds of up to 150Mbps. And you can add protection with WEP and WPA so that you know that you have a secure connection. This small USB personal router can be a life saver in an extremely small package.

This will be available for sale on February 14th and there is currently no pricing for the USB pocket router information available from Asus, though we are seeing $39.99 as the suggested retail for this. In a few weeks, it will be available for purchase and something that you really should take a look at.