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Zoom Home LAN
Creates an affordable Local Area Network without
running wires
Installs easily using existing home phone wires
Does not disrupt normal phone use
Share Internet access, printers, and files
Plugs into PCI slot
Home Phoneline Network Alliance certified
Zoom/HomeLAN PCI Network Interface Card
Networking your computers at home has never been easier. The Zoom/HomeLAN family of products plugs into standard phone jacks for fast, affordable networking without the cost and inconvenience of running cables. Households with more than one PC can now swap files, share a printer or other equipment, play networked games and share Internet access.
Zoom/HomeLAN does not disrupt normal phone use. Your telephone or fax machine plugs into a phone jack on the Zoom /HomeLAN PCI and can be used normally even while computers are actively networked on the same phone line. The jack is filtered to improve network performance and guard against noise and interference.
Zoom/HomeLAN transmits and receives data at a fast 1 Megabit per second rate. That's about 30 times faster than a modem and nearly as fast as a heavily trafficked office network.
The Zoom/HomeLAN PCI card is shipped with a two-user version of SyGate. This software allows shared Internet access over a Zoom/HomeLAN network using a single Internet account. The SyGate software's Network Address Translation (NAT) feature supports the broadest range of Internet application software, including NetMeeting, ICQ, InternetPhone, Net2Phone, and VPN (PPTP). And, unlike other Internet sharing software, SyGate enables any PC on the Zoom/HomeLAN network to initiate a dialup connection to the Internet using America OnLine's AOL 4.0 browser. SyGate can also be used to prevent access to undesirable Web sites or restrict access to approved sites.
Zoom/HomeLAN is certified by the HomePNA (Phoneline Networking Alliance). So, Zoom/HomeLAN will talk to any other computer equipped with HomePNA compatible network devices. A Zoom/HomeLAN PCI card can also be used as a 10BASE-T network interface card, which provides flexibility should networking needs change.
Zoom/HomeLAN PCI is simple to install. The card plugs into a computer's PCI slot and is connected by a normal phone cable to a residential phone line. Included software makes wizard-assisted setup and configuration quick and easy. Zoom/HomeLAN works on nearly any computer, even older 486-based models. All that's required is an available PCI slot, a CD-ROM drive (for software installation) and a hard drive. One Zoom/HomeLAN card, or compatible card, is needed for each computer on the network.
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