Why you need green router? With green routers, you can save cash on energy costs, comply with government regulations, and the more important reason is you care for the environment.

Power consumption related to technology including the wireless devices such as routers is rising rapidly. As a consequence, this will also creates a rising in technology pollutes including the increase amounts of electricity, toxic elements in the materials that compose the hardware such as cadmium and mercury. It is therefore, the need of electronic devices with the green logo is very important to help save the power and care the environments.

Why You Need Green Router?

There are many general reasons why you need green router. With green routers, you pay attention to energy consumption and other recycling hardware which consequently helps you save power and comply with government regulations, and the most important thing is that you care for the environments, help heal the planet, and make it beautiful and clean.

There are many ways for manufacturers to produce green equipments including green router such as:

• Producing equipments that require less power than normal by designing the products with less power consumptions such as minimizing power waste and design power-saving features into software, firmware, and hardware.
• Reducing the amount of toxic waste materials in manufactured products and using more recyclable materials. Unfortunately, the fact is that almost 70 percent of overall toxic waste comes from dumped electronic equipment.

There are many green router products available in the marketplace today such as the following:

Airlink101 AR675W 300Mbps Wireless N Green Router

Airlink101 AR675W is designed with the green Ethernet technology to help save more energy. The router is powered by the high performance wireless 802.11n technology for highest wireless data rate of up to 300 Mbps. It includes the two 3dBi antennas to provide wider coverage to eliminate dead spots.

Other features:

• Wireless On/Off Switch to reduce power when you don't need wireless network.
• WPA2, WPA enhanced security provide fully protection for your wireless connection
• To prioritize the HD media streaming or voice, the router supports Quality of Service (QoS) WMM
• NAT and SPI feature for your internal network protection against any types of internet threats
• Supports VPN pass-though for secure remote connection via public internet.

TEW-672GR 300Mbps Dual-band Wireless N Gigabit Green Router

TEW-672GR Wireless Gigabit Router is powered by GREENnet technology which is designed to reduce power consumption by up to 70% by reducing power supplied to unused ports, and the use of Energy Star Certified external power adapter that help consumes less power. It is also equipped with the Enable/disable wireless functionality with the WLAN on/off toggle switch to save energy while you are not using the wireless.

Other features:

• Powered by the wireless –n dual-band technology and 3 external antennas with smart MIMO antenna technology for the speeds of up to 300 Mbps and longer distance coverage
• Equipped with 1 Gigabit WAN port which is compatible with most popular cable/DSL Internet service providers using Dynamic/Static IP, PPPoE, PPTP and L2TP. For wired connection, the router is equipped with 4 Gigabit Ethernet Auto-MDIX ports
• Advanced dual-firewall protection (NAT and SPI) for internal network protection against any threats
• Access restriction with Internet Access Control; time scheduling, URL and MAC filtering
• Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) for auto discovery and support for device configuration of Internet applications

WNDR37AV Wireless N Gigabit Router for Video and Gaming

WNDR37AV is a new powerful wireless n gigabit router for video and gaming which is also designed with Netgear Green technology including Power On/Off Button, 80 percent recycled packaging, Wireless On and Off Button, Cable Length Power Save, and Energy Star etc. WNDR37AV is different with others because it is specifically designed for video and gaming with green technology.

Other features:

• ReadySHARE USB Storage Access which supports FAT16/32, NTFS Read/Write, Ext 2 Read/Write, Ext 3 Read/Write
• Powered by Wireless –n technology with dual-band wireless 2.4 GHz and 5 GHz for twice the bandwidth for better connection and less interference
• Equipped with 4-port Gigabit Ethernet for high-speed wired connection which is ideal for large HD file transfer
• You can stream video and music from a USB drive to media players easily with DLNA Media Server feature – no PC required
• Video Quality of Service, a dedicated video network which allows you stream video on one network, while surfing the Internet

In selecting the wireless router, make sure that you choose the router with Green technology logo including Energy Star, On/Off wireless, recycle materials packaging, and so on. By selecting the wireless router with green technology in mind, you care for better environments, help heal the planet, and make it beautiful and clean.

By Ki Grinsing