US Robotics 8000 Router gets a thumbsup from me!

[teriba]

I know that there are only two reviews of this router on the web right now (8wire.com, practicallynetworked.com) so I will give it one of my own.

So far I have had no problems at all. It came with firmware v1.23 and I upgraded it to v1.25 without a problem. I have 2 computers running off of it with their MAC addresses mapping them to specific ip's. That worked great. Speed seems great, no connection losses. Networking performance is superb. I give it a big

One question: What is with the power cord that they gave me in the box? It has two prongs like a normal plug, except they are spaced wider than normal and they are round like the ground on a 3-prong plug. Is this for some other country? They didn't supply a normal one so I had to use one from my bucket 'o parts

 

[lowtech1]

"It has two prongs like a normal plug, except they are spaced wider than normal and they are round like the ground on a 3-prong plug."

2 prongs is for 220v

 

[teriba]

Why would they include it then and not a normal plug?

 

[lowtech1]

Just incase you live some where eles that uses 220v. Most of Europian countries, and some Asian & Midle Eastern countries uses 220v.