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| Brand | Zoom |
| Item Weight | 231 g |
| Product Dimensions | 13 x 12.1 x 3.2 cm |
| Item model number | 4501-72-00F |
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| ASIN | B002SXMH1C |
| Best Sellers Rank |
4,288 in Computers & Accessories (See top 100)
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| Shipping Weight | 540 g |
| Date First Available | 26 Oct 2009 |
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Product Description
With the Zoom 4501 3G Wireless-N Desktop Router, your computers, mobile phones, and gaming consoles can share a high-speed Wireless-N connection to the Internet through your 3G mobile broadband USB modem. Just plug your USB Modem into the Zoom 4501 3G Wireless-N Desktop Router, and then any WiFi devices you choose, can have instant, fast and easy Internet access. The Zoom 4501 3G Wireless-N Desktop Router works anywhere you can receive a 3G signal and where AC power is available.
The Zoom 4501 3G Router wireless-N networking capability is fast, with extended range for maximum mobility. Now you can provide a 3G mobile broadband Internet connection to all your WiFi devices, including Windows, Macintosh or Linux computers, iPhones and other WiFi mobile phones, the iTouch and Blackberry, barcode readers, and game stations including Nintendo DSi, Nintendo DS Lite, and Playstation PSP.
You can connect computers and other devices to the Router through its wireless-N capability or through its Ethernet LAN port. You can even plug the Router into the Ethernet port of an ADSL modem or cable modem so your 3G USB modem provides backup to your wired Internet connection.
The Zoom 4501 3G Wireless-N Router is a great way to simultaneously connect multiple wireless devices to the Internet through your 3G USB modem. But its also useful as a range extender for one or more wireless computers, phones, or other devices.The Router then lets you roam around your home or office using its extended-range wireless-N capability.
The Zoom 4501 is a full-featured router that supports NAT, a robust firewall, VPN Pass-through, DHCP server, and other router functions for up to 253 simultaneous users. It also supports a wide choice of connections to your Internet Service Provider, including static IP, dynamic IP (DHCP client), PPTP, L2TP, PPPoE, and 3G and supports wireless security modes, including WEP, WPA, WPA2, and WPS, making it easy for you to control who has access to your Router.
The router can be set up easily using the Router’s built-in browser interface. Most users wont need to change any settings, and will enjoy easy setup with Universal Plug and Play.
The bottom line? The Zoom 4501 3G Wireless-N Router is ideal for 3G USB modem owners at home, in the office, or wherever there’s AC power and enough signal strength for your mobile broadband modem.
Product Description
Share your mobile broadband Internet access in your home or office.- Wireless n/g/b Router distributes mobile broadband to Wifi computers,phones, game stations, and more!- 3G USB modem plugs into this AC-powered RouterNow computers, mobile phones, and game stations can share a high-speed wireless connection to the Internet through your 3G mobile broadband USB modem. Just plug in the modem and all the WiFi devices you choose have fast, easy Internet access. It's a great way to share your high-speed mobile broadband connection at home,the office, or anywhere else that AC power is available.The 3G Router's wireless-N networking capability is fast, with extended range for maximum mobility. Now you can provide a 3G mobile broadband Internet connection to all your WiFi devices, including Windows, Macintosh, or Linux computers, iPhones and other WiFi mobile phones, the iTouch and Blackberry, barcode readers, and game stations including Nintendo DSi, Nintendo DS Lite, and Playstation Portable.The Model 4501 can often provide an improved 3G connection where signal strength is low. Put the Router and 3G modem where the local 3G signal strength is the best, such as near a window. Then the Router will complete the connection to local WiFi devices through extended-range wireless-N capability.You can connect computers and other devices to the Router through its wireless-N capability or through the Model 4501's Ethernet LAN jack. You can also plug an ADSL modem or cable modem into the 4501 through an Ethernet WAN port to provide router functions to those broadband connections. When also connected to a 3G USB modem, the 4501 will provide automatic backup to your wired Internet connection.The 4501 provides an extensive list of router features, including robust firewalls, VPN Pass-through, DHCP server, Quality of Service (QoS) and other router functions for up to 253 simultaneous users. The 4501 also supports a wide range of Internet service connection protocols
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Most Helpful Customer Reviews
22 of 22 people found the following review helpful
Amazon Verified Purchase
This is a good modem. I installed 2 of them mainly for an upload application. Worked first time with minimal configuration and seems to be fairly robust in retaining 3G signal. It has a good strong wifi signal. I will update my post if I experience anything different. A word of warning, this router (and most other routers), will not work with all dongles. Check the compatibility carefully before you buy this or any router.
13 of 13 people found the following review helpful
By Robrik
Initially, I had great hopes for this router. Small and unobtrusive, it has decent network speed and passable range (up to 10m through 1 wall and two floors). A definite plus is that it not only works with many 3G USB stick modems, but it also can also connect to the internet via certain mobile phones when they're plugged into the USB port at the back: my Nokia was recognised and used without trouble. However, although it claims to allow VPN passthrough, the current firmware (ver. 1.0.6) does not support PPTP VPN connections unless one disables the router's security firewall. This makes this router a less attractive option for users who need to VPN into a corporate network this way. Zoom assured me that future firmware will fix this, but haven't said when that will be.
29 of 30 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars
Excellent Product, Working with Vodafone K3565 Fine with correct settings applied.
24 July 2010
By reviewer
I have been looking for a 3G router for a while to hopefully be able to replace my flakey wired broadband with a wireless 3G solution that would offer me more stability and be completely portable.
This unit is mid range in terms of price, I avoided the cheaper ones but did not want to fork out too much in case this experiment failed to work. the unit has a very small footprint and has a USB connection for a USB 3G stick, a LAN port and a WAN port. You can configure the unit to work with your ADSL/Cable with 3G as an automatic failover option or just use 3G/DSL. Mine is configured for just 3G.
If you require more LAN ports then you can always add a secondary switch of your own choice.
Wireless LAN reception is excellent, offering 802.11b,g and n and various security features such as WEP etc, including filtering via MAC addresses on either the wired and wireless interfaces.
Setting up the 3G was the most time consuming, I use a vodafone PAYG 3G dongle (K3565) which I had connected to a very long USB cable with the dongle situated in my loft for better 3G reception. this was working fine on my PC, but the router failed to see the dongle on the long cable. The dongle needs to be inserted directly into the unit, or use a very short USB cable for it to be correctly detected.
Next small problem was getting the dongle to connect to the vodafone network. it does work once you find out what the settings should be, so for any future purchases using a PAYG vodafone stick here are the connection details.
APN = ppbundle.... Read more ›
This unit is mid range in terms of price, I avoided the cheaper ones but did not want to fork out too much in case this experiment failed to work. the unit has a very small footprint and has a USB connection for a USB 3G stick, a LAN port and a WAN port. You can configure the unit to work with your ADSL/Cable with 3G as an automatic failover option or just use 3G/DSL. Mine is configured for just 3G.
If you require more LAN ports then you can always add a secondary switch of your own choice.
Wireless LAN reception is excellent, offering 802.11b,g and n and various security features such as WEP etc, including filtering via MAC addresses on either the wired and wireless interfaces.
Setting up the 3G was the most time consuming, I use a vodafone PAYG 3G dongle (K3565) which I had connected to a very long USB cable with the dongle situated in my loft for better 3G reception. this was working fine on my PC, but the router failed to see the dongle on the long cable. The dongle needs to be inserted directly into the unit, or use a very short USB cable for it to be correctly detected.
Next small problem was getting the dongle to connect to the vodafone network. it does work once you find out what the settings should be, so for any future purchases using a PAYG vodafone stick here are the connection details.
APN = ppbundle.... Read more ›
8 of 8 people found the following review helpful
By Mr. Gary Gee
Amazon Verified Purchase
Make no mistake this 3G router is better than anything else out there there is no comparison performance wise to the likes of the Netgear range! The Netgear doesn't support any of the new dongles where as the Zoom took a few mins to get up and running with the latest ZTE 112 and a 3 sim card. One word of advice, although it worked from the box and gave me download speeds of 3 - 4mb, after updating the firmware from the Zoom site it now gives me 5-6mb much better than having the dongle plugged straight in a usb port! I'm happily running 3 desktops 4 laptops 2 iPods, an iPhone and a HTC phone with no problems what so ever!
Recommended :D
Recommended :D
6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
By dcd
Amazon Verified Purchase
This router worked first time with no problems with a 3 USB dongle. The only comment is that the wireless starts up unprotected by default so if you don't change it anyone can use up your data allowance if they are close enough.
With vodaphone the settings for PAYG are as in another review repted below along with settings for contract dongle.
PAYG
APN = ppbundle.internet
PIN CODE = <leave blank>
Dial = *99#
username = web
password = web
Authentication type = auto
Connection type = Auto (always on)*
*note you can configure the router to be always connected to 3G, or dial on demand, or connect manually via the web interface to the router.
Contract
APN = internet
PIN CODE = <leave blank>
Dial = *99#
username = web
password = web
Authentication type = auto
Connection type = Auto (always on)*
*note you can configure the router to be always connected to 3G, or dial on demand, or connect manually via the web interface to the router.
With vodaphone the settings for PAYG are as in another review repted below along with settings for contract dongle.
PAYG
APN = ppbundle.internet
PIN CODE = <leave blank>
Dial = *99#
username = web
password = web
Authentication type = auto
Connection type = Auto (always on)*
*note you can configure the router to be always connected to 3G, or dial on demand, or connect manually via the web interface to the router.
Contract
APN = internet
PIN CODE = <leave blank>
Dial = *99#
username = web
password = web
Authentication type = auto
Connection type = Auto (always on)*
*note you can configure the router to be always connected to 3G, or dial on demand, or connect manually via the web interface to the router.
6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
By Alan R. Wood
Amazon Verified Purchase
Does exactly what it says on the tin. Used for mu caravan with Vodafone E172 Dongle. After connecting to 5 port switch to which my 3 computers were attached, connected within 10 seconds straight from the box with all 3 computers able to access the internet. I only have very slow 2G (GPRS) signal at my caravan location but it still works despite the product being named a 3G router. An excellent piece of kit. Mine came with the firmware update issued in January already installed. This solved a long standing problem for me where I was continually having to pull out the dongle from one machine to use in another and I can unhesitatingly recommend it.
Alan
Alan
Most Recent Customer Reviews
5.0 out of 5 stars
Easy to set up - just make sure you also update it!
Works well with a 3 dongle. I also bought an external antenna from Panorama which sits on a windows sill pointing vaguely towards a mast. Read more
Published 1 month ago by Jimbo
5.0 out of 5 stars
Excellent
This is a great product, having used it for a number of years. Other than resetting it about once every 6 weeks, (disconnect and reconnect the power to the unit) it has been... Read more
Published 2 months ago by Pat Sheehan
5.0 out of 5 stars
Simple and Works!
I have had this router a couple of years now and it is still going strong. Very easy to configure and works with nearly all the available 3G dongles in the UK. Read more
Published 2 months ago by Nancol
5.0 out of 5 stars
Excellent device
This device works even better than expected. My wi fi is great and I can run Xbox and pc at the same time.
Published 5 months ago by Mr K P Sheil
5.0 out of 5 stars
Zoom 3G Wireless-N Desktop Router
Truly excellent, the answer for anyone wishing to use mobile broadband to network multiple devices in the home. Simple to set up, with a good signal range.
Published 10 months ago by Stanleyman
5.0 out of 5 stars
Worked well straight away
It was very easy to get working. Took a little longer to get a wifi key setup but the instructions were pretty clear ang got this setup too.
Published 11 months ago by Chris
5.0 out of 5 stars
100% amazing!!
What I want is to take a product out of the box assemble and plug it in and then use it within 10 minutes max. This does all of the above. FANTASTIC!! Simplicity itself. Read more
Published 11 months ago by TeeGee
5.0 out of 5 stars
Good Product
Had a bit of a nightmare setting this up due to not having the ethernet cable. I purchased from Amazon marketplace. Read more
Published 12 months ago by Phil Draycott
5.0 out of 5 stars
Plug and play
Brilliant!
This is the third usb 3g router I have tried over last 2 years.
Unboxed it this morning, plugged in E160X 3g usb modem on Orange, checked ip... Read more
This is the third usb 3g router I have tried over last 2 years.
Unboxed it this morning, plugged in E160X 3g usb modem on Orange, checked ip... Read more
Published 17 months ago by Boffin
1.0 out of 5 stars
Avoid
My first Zoom 3G Router was as dead as a dodo and it was immediately returned with a request for a refund which Amazon ignored. Read more
Published 20 months ago by Caveat
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