BT Wireless Network 1250 Router Review

Introduction
The BT Wireless Network 1250 is an evolution of the earlier BT Home Network 1200 router, both of which are actually built by 2Wire. The BT 1250 looks almost identical to the 1200. The main difference is that the PCMCIA card slot is missing, because the BT 1250 has the wireless networking built into it, rather than an optional extra. Otherwise the unit is pretty much identical offering:

Single 10/100Mbps Ethernet socket with auto-crossover
802.11b wireless built-in
RJ11 socket for connection to phone line
USB socket for connecting to a PC
Home PNA 2.0, allowing use of telephone extensions for networking
NAT/PAT support
DMZplus option to assign WAN IP to a PC
Internet based upgrades, downloaded direct to portal
Much of the documentation for the BT 1250 refers to it as a Home Gateway, and with the various connectivity options, it is much more of a gateway than many other routers on the market. The actual web interface used to configure the unit is also designed with non-expert users in mind, though it still has plenty of functionality. The router will work on single or dynamic IP address ADSL accounts and while NAT can be disabled to allow use of blocks of static IP addresses, the router is best suited to use on single IP address accounts.

What you get for your money
The unit itself is not particularly small measuring 22cm x 20cm x 6cm, but as it is designed to stand up, it does not occupy too much real estate. All of the leads and the router itself are shownn below. You receive as standard with the router, a 3 metre BT phone plug to RJ11 plug lead, USB Type A to Type B lead, power supply, 3 metre RJ11 to RJ11 lead, two microfilters, one RJ45 CAT5e Ethernet lead and a mains lead for the PSU.

Additionally there is a nice stack of documentation and a CD based wizard that can be used to set-up the unit. The quick start guide is a large fold-out affair, that is designed to show you how to connect all the leads and get connected initially. The software manual walks you through many of the more complex options available in the router. The manual also covers how to set-up the router for a Macintosh computer.

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