The Wi-Fi Alliance—the trade group that certifies the interoperability of Wi-Fi products from different vendors—has begun a certification program for Voice-over-IP telephony on Wi-Fi devices.
A product (whether an access point, a router, a handset, or a PC) with a Wi-Fi Certified Voice-Personal sticker on its packaging is certified to be capable of making or handling [...]
TRENDNET 300MBPS WIRELESS and GIGABIT ROUTER
Good Features, Low Cost, Rotten Install
For a very reasonable price, the Trendnet 300Mbps Wireless N Gigabit Router (model TEW-633GR) has almost all the features you could want. But although the company went to the trouble of providing four Gigabit Ethernet wired ports, the router doesn’t support operation in the 5-GHz [...]
Draft-N Under a C-Note
You’re unlikely to find a draft-n router that costs less than the Link-sys Ultra RangePlus Wireless-N Router (WRT160N). As with the Linksys RangePlus Wireless Router (WRT110), the four wired Ethernet ports are 10/100 only, and there’s no USB port for sharing a printer or storage device. But the WRT160N can use Linksys’s [...]
Router with a Reach
Though a bit slow (just 87 megabits per second) at the optimal wireless computing distance of about 20 feet, the SMC SMCW-GBR14 Barricade N router is a champ at long range: I measured 32 Mbps at over 180 feet! It can’t operate in the 5-GHz band, but its four wired ports support [...]
Constrained Wireless for Strained Budgets
Seventy bucks is a great price for a router that, although not true draft-n, can connect to wireless-n clients (not just its own brand but others as well) and has a decent range. But to drive the price down that far, the Linksys RangePlus Wireless Router (WRT110) made some sacrifices: Its [...]
