We use these Z1s, mostly for, our remote sales peoples to tunnel access for Voip Phones Corp Shares. The Pro in all this is that the Z1 is much easier to hand to a sales person, and tell them to just plug it in and every things works.    The Voip is no problem bandwidth wise, but the shares make it nice to have a speed, but they are not complaining. What they complain about is that now that they are behind this thing, they are bottled necked to 50meg when they have 300 just on the on the other side, for other internet activity that requires bandwidth.    We have replaced all those concerned with the MX64, that has taken care of the problem although even this unit is maxed out at 250meg, but they are happy now.    I would definitely agree with Philip that these are only for telecommuters that only need very little bandwidth, and are not going to use them for there Home network, other than that they are not very useful.  ... View more

Thanks for the reply. Wow, I just never really paid to much attention to those specs, I mean you have ISPs now as a norm offering well over 100m as a standard, and there cheap little routers will do that ,and up to 1g.   I also think that I really never paid attention since it is some what of a new standard, so it really never mattered before, and the fact that the actual interface is 1g, my assumption was that it could throughput 1g. Bottom Line obviously is that these units are really totally worthless in today's internet environment.    I went to look at the new Z3, and it appears that it is doubled, but still cannot handle over 100meg, so even the newest Cisco Z3, is really worthless as well, and at a cost of over 300.00.   I am going to be forced to only use the Z1 for Voip, and move all of the client devices in front of the Z1 so they can enjoy the internet through the 69.00 ISP router, although I will not have much of a firewall to work with, its a 2 edge sword. ... View more