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Prismiq Commander Wireless Router

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If you're looking for network monitoring/logging capabilities, this wireless router is a bargain.

Prismiq Commander

This is the front of the Primiq Commander Wireless Router (model IWR 5010). It has status LEDs for indicating traffic status on the various ports.

Prismiq Commander: Top

Prismiq Commander: Right Side

Here we see the right side of the device revealing the power port, USB connector, Ethernet ports, reset button, and antenna.

Prismiq Commander: Left Side

Prismiq Commander: Bottom

Prismiq Commander Wireless Router

The Commander's router setup wizard.

Prismiq Commander: Status Screen summary

Commander Router Status Screen summary.

Prismiq Commander: AOL Session

Here we see captured traffic from an AOL IM text session.

Prismiq Commander: POP Plain Text Email

This image displays captured inbound (POP) plain text email.

Prismiq Commander: SMTP Plain Text Email

This screen image displays captured outbound (SMTP) plain text email.

Prismiq Commander: Log

This log displays Web sites that have been visited by computers attached to the Prismiq Commander router. They've been sorted in order of session start time.

Prismiq Commander: Log of Unrecognized Traffic

The router can be set to keep a log of unrecognized traffic, secure (SSL) traffic being one such example.

Prismiq Commander: Computer "MAC" addresses

With the Commander, the usually non-intuitive computer "MAC" addresses can be assigned a "friendly" more recognizable name.

Prismiq Commander: Types of Traffic

The Prismiq Commander Wireless Router can be configured to ignore different types of traffic from individual computer names.