Home Wi-Fi Made Easy By Cisco Valet

Makers of the easiest to use and best-selling Flip video camera want to make it easier for you to network & Wi-Fi your home. The network giant Cisco has released its first easy-to-use home Wi-Fi router, The Valet. There is two models of the Valet, one sells for $99 and the other $149. It seems Cisco bought Pure Digital the parent company of the Flip video camera about a year ago. Now they plan to make routers as easy to use as the Flip video camera.

Cisco, 20% of the mainstream who buy routers and returning them because they just too hard for them to set up. All you have to do to set up the Valet is insert the USB dongle into the Valet and the other end of the USB into your computer. The password and the web key are automatically set up by Cisco software. To add additional computers to the network, insert the USB cable into each machine.

There are two versions of the Valet. The small $99 version of the Valte is for small to midsize homes and the $149 one is for large homes that require a bigger signal. For you tech-geeks, to set up the network manually users can bypass the automatic setup, and go to advanced tab and make individual decisions and settings.

Personally, I think this will make it a lot easier for the non-techie's to install and setup a home router. I know a lot of people in the past who have bought a router to use with their home computers and just could not get the router set up properly. Many people would love to buy a router for their home networking that is easy to set up, more or less plug-and-play, just plug in the USB cable and it's setup. Ready to use.

Normally, set up a securable router with WiFi networking, you would have to install software first, then plug all the cables into the router and into your computer, change the name of the router and then setup the password for the wireless WiFi part. Now, using the new Cisco Valte router, all you have to do is plug in the USB cable and it's automatically setup for you, ready to use. It all sounds very easy, which should make a lot of frustrated ex-router users very happy.

I think Cisco will sell thousands of these easy-to-use Valet routers to the non-techie public. Personally, I could think of five people I know that will be extremely happy to hear about the new Cisco Valet router.

The Cisco Valet

Prices range from $79 to $179.99.

Features include the ability to have two separate networks run via one router.