Home Networking Routers

If you are in the market for a new router, then reading this report from MacDailyNews might just be the eye opener you need before making the purchase.

Although satisfaction with ISPs has slipped slightly, the hardware part of the equation has improved, as shown by this year’s results for the Internet’s conduit to your PC: home networking routers. Overall ratings are up for seven of the nine companies returning from last year’s survey. Three vendors—Linksys (a repeat winner), Apple, and Cisco (Linksys’s parent company)—receive Readers’ Choice awards, and Netgear follows close behind.

Home networking routers connect to a broadband modem and provide a hardware firewall against outside hackers. They usually have a switch so that several PCs can be connected and, in the case of wireless routers, a wireless access point. [Read the rest]

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