What router can be used with Kansas Broadbands service and why is it required?
Any broadband router that has an Ethernet port (10BaseT or 100BaseT) as its WAN or Internet port will work. This includes the wireless routers that are currently popular. If you get the router from Kansas Broadband Networks, it will be a Linksys model , which is a router and 4 port Ethernet switch. Several brands that we know work include D-link, Netgear, Belkin, and SMC. Kansas Broadband Networks requires the use of a router because the radio transceiver we use does not block non-Internet protocols (such as Windows’ Netbeui) or Ethernet broadcast packets. For security reasons, you do not want this traffic getting onto our network. For performance and reliability reasons, we want that traffic to be blocked. Additional benefits of the router include firewall protection as well as multiple Ethernet ports and IP Addresses to allow multiple computers to be online at the same time.
