Travelling as a geek in the 21st century can be a rather heavy affair – and sometimes you simply have to leave some things behind. Now ASUS believes that your wireless router should not be one of them.
The ASUS WL-330NUL USB Pocket Router (really? No cute name like wispo or travelroute or something?) comes in at USB drive size, with dimensions of 65 x 20 x 15mm and weighing only 25 grams. But don’t let the little package fool you: it’s packing 802.11 b/g/n support, WiFi 2.4GHz an Ethernet port and connects to the computer via USB 2.0/3.0 to draw the power it needs – so no need to carry around another power plug.
I imagine this would be good for the geek whose friends expect him to get everything working – and the one who likes to make people happy by doing it. I’ve been that geek too many times, so to have this, hook it up into a network and have everyone in my little group then hooked up wirelessly…it’d be like being a little personal travelling Internet provider.
The ASUS WL-330NUL can be preordered from Expansys to be released on February 14 (what a great geeky Valentines gift!), although the price hasn’t yet been revealed. Hopefully it won’t break the bank…
[Via Geek.com]
This isn’t really anything new. You have been able to get travel routers for years. The only difference with this is that it is powered by usb instead of an ac adapter
I could plug a ethernet cable in to my laptop to access the internet. But then im teid to that wire.
The purpose of a wlan router ist to free me of that wire.
A router, that ist plugged to an ethernet cable on one side and to an USB port on the other defeats that purpose.
What good is it?