The NBG6716 may be yet another router enclosed in a black plastic rectangular box, yet Taiwanese firm Zyxel has spruced up its appearance with a swirling groove of plastic that covers three quarters of the front. Zyxel's onboard software is simple but effective, yet it doesn't work as well as that offered with some of the company's NAS drives. When you log in you'll see the aptly named Simple mode, which provides three switches for enabling power-saving mode, the firewall and the content filter, plus a pair of links to the internet and wireless settings. These settings aren't ones we imagine changing that often, so you'll spend more time in the less-well-designed Expert mode. Four tiny, poorly drawn and unlabelled icons lead to different areas of the software. It's far from obvious to what each one refers, leading to blindly clicking on each section to find a specific option.
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