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D-Link DIR-657 Wireless N HD Media Router
Users are spoiled for choice when it comes to choosing a new or replacement router, with models to suit pretty much every budget and whim. D-Link’s new DIR-657 is a mid-range model with a rather odd mix of advanced and basic features. The bad and the good With every router manufacturer falling over each other…
TP-Link TL-WR2543ND Router
Wi-Fi is now ubiquitous, but performance never quite lives up to expectations. Poor throughput, interference from neighbours and dead spots around the home, all mean that wired connections are still the best choice, when practical. TP-Link’s new TL-WR2543ND router claims to address some of these problems, by implementing the next step in the evolution…
Belkin Play N750 DB (F9K1103) router
Belkin’s latest top-of-the-range wireless router, the Play N750 DB, has dropped most of the unimpressive third-party add-ons that we met in last year’s Play Max model, but introduces some clever (and rather more useful) new antenna technology to improve wireless range. The N750 DB is available for use with either cable/BT Infinity or ADSL2+ connections,…
Solwise 4-port Homeplug 500AV adapter (PL-500AV-4PE)
Homeplug networking over the mains is very convenient when cables or Wi-Fi are not an option, but if you have more than one device at the remote end of a connection you will also need to add a switch. Solwise’s latest Homeplug 500AV adapter, the PL-500AV-4PE, solves this problem by incorporating a four-port Gigabit switch…
Cisco Linksys E4200
It’s always pleasing when a company takes reviewers’ criticisms seriously – and that certainly seems to be the case with Cisco’s new Linksys E4200 top-of-the-range router. When we reviewed the previous flagship model, the E3000, in 2010 we found many deficiencies in the Cisco Connect software (which comes with all E-series routers) – but we’re…