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Today, many organizations, businesses and public facilities provide internet access to their guests or general public, such as schools, libraries, airports, hotels, shopping centers and coffee shops, etc. Because of the popularity of P2P applications, it quite frequently happens that a few P2P users taking most of the bandwidth, blocking other users from accessing internet. This is causing very unstable Internet experiences to the visitors, sometimes leads to complaints. Nowadays the quality of internet access can be an important factor for people to choose the places they'd like to stay. The unstable Internet access is silently hurting the businesses.

AppEx HC series Smart Routers are the perfect solutions to ensure the quality of the shared internet access. Priced at the same level as the common SOHO routers, HC Smart Routers offer the following unique features:

1. Eliminating the congestions on internet access and accelerating TCP connections significantly, which lead to an improved WAN link utilization and overall quality of experiences;

2. Balancing the bandwidth usage among users dynamically so that no one will be blocked by the P2P users;

3. Configurable P2P bandwidth upper limit (set to a certain percentage of total bandwidth capacity).Learn more

HC Smart Routers are very easy to use. The above features 1 and 2 are configuration-free.

With the help of HC Smart Routers, businesses that provide shared Internet access can attract more customers and boost their profits. Public service organizations will receive fewer complaints and asks for support, enhancing the overall Internet experiences.

The above graph shows the difference with and without AppEx HC Smart Router in a real-life deployment test. On the left side, with a normal router, the eMule P2P download traffic to PC-B overwhelmed the downlink. When PC-A started downloading Windows Vista SP1 package, it could barely get any bandwidth with its single TCP flow. While on the right side with AppEx HC Smart Router, when PC-A started downloading, PC-B's total bandwidth was automatically suppressed to 50% of the WAN speed so that PC-A would get its fair share.