THE TEW-827DRU

The TEW-827DRU is housed inside a hard plastic enclosure that measures 250mm in length, 180mm in width and 45mm in height.

All of the activity LEDs (power/internet/LAN/WiFi/USB) are placed on a glossy strip placed at the front of the router.

Most of the base of the router is perforated to allow hot air to exit the enclosure.

Antenna ports are placed on both sides of the router as you can see from the above pictures.

At the rear of the TEW-827DRU we see two extra Antenna ports, LED on/off button, two USB 3.0 ports, WPS button, 4 RJ45 Gigabit LAN ports, RJ45 Gigabit WAN port, WiFi on/off button, reset button, power on/off button and the DC in.

Four small rubber feet and two wall mounts are placed at the base of the router.

TRENDnet has used 4 high gain Antennas (3dBi for the 2.4GHz band and 4dBi for the 5GHz band) with the TEW-827DRU which of course you can replace with others.

With all the Antennas mounted the TEW-827DRU is not what i'd call small but this is what most modem/routers look like today so we can't complain (of course that will depend a lot on its performance).