Best Value Wireless Router For Home Or with Modem

In this article:

• Overview – best value wireless router
• Best wireless router for home
• Best wireless router with built-in modem
• Network diagram for home entertainment

Looking for the best wireless router for home means looking for the wireless router that supports all networking tasks both work and play. The best wireless router that supports your “work” environment includes the following features:

1. Capable of transferring data with high speed data rate transfer including internet browsing, very fast data rate transfer from server to the workstations, fast wireless connections for mobile devices etc
2. Capable of sharing the printer and storage attached to the router and are accessible across the network easily
3. Capable of accessing data across  the internet securely

The best wireless router for home that supports your “play” environment should support the following features:

1. High speed and solid wireless connection for HD media streaming and online multiplayer gaming
2. Supports UPnP media server with DLNA compliant to let you connect any DLNA compliant devices seamlessly

With the above criteria, which is the best wireless router for home? You can find the one that meets those features on Asus RT-N56U N600 Black Diamond can be nominated as the best one.

Asus RT-N56U Black Diamond

Main features:

• High speed Simultaneous dual band N600 technology, up to 300Mbps each band
• Gigabit interfaces
• Twin USB ports with built-in media server – DLNA compliant
• High performance router with 128Mb RAM

The RT-N56U black diamond provides the rich features to support all your networking tasks both for your “work and play”. With the N600 technology and is powered by internal antennas (2xantennas with 3.8dBi gain for 2.4GHz and 3xantennas with 5.1dBi gain for 5GHz) with Ai Radar, the router provides high speed and solid signal ideal for streaming HD media smoothly and is also ideal for fast responsive gaming.

Should you have data server (with gigabit NIC adapter) and couple of workstations with gigabit NIC ready, you don’t need to purchase separate gigabit LAN switch for Gigabit LAN network. All the high bandwidth intensive applications that need fast data rate transfer from the server to the workstation can be perform through the fast lanes.

To let your clients access the share storage and printer, you can attach both external disk and multifunction printer and scanner to the router concurrently, no need purchasing separate printer server. And with the built-in media server with DLNA compliant, what can you say it’s what you require to support your home entertainment connecting all home theater DLNA compliant devices seamlessly. High speed processor with 128Mb RAM can perform high speed processing tasks.

Those features are the pros part of this best wireless router for home, are there any cons? Yes

Cons:

• To support secure tunneling for remote users when they require accessing the network from the internet, this router doesn’t support VPN natively, but VPN pass through. As opposed to Buffalo Wzr-Hp-Ag300h with external storage LinkStation and TeraStation, you have free WebAccess services to allow you access your files from anywhere via the internet.
• It doesn’t support guest network

Read more detail about RT-N56U manufacture’s spec here.

With these two minus, the Asus RT-N56U is still one of the best wireless router for home to support your “work and play” environment.

What about the all-in-one device, the wireless router with built-in modem? The Netgear DGND3700 is the best wireless router with modem for DSL services.

DGND3700 ADSL Wireless N600 Router

Main features:

• N600 simultaneous dual band wireless router, up to 300Mbps each band
• Gigabit Ethernet for LAN network, fast data rate transfer for gigabit environment
• Includes one USB port for share storage with built-in DLNA media server – ideal to support your multimedia environment
• Includes one gigabit WAN port for cable modem connection when you require Cable services instead of DSL
• Support guest network each band

Those features are ideal features for your best wireless router modem in home, a single device which includes all the networking requirements for wireless router, modem and gigabit switch. Unfortunately you cannot share the printer attached to the USB port.

Networking Diagram

The networking diagram as shown in the figure below is typically used in home with Asus RT-N56u as the central of the network and multi-port Linksys WES610n wireless bridge for home theater devices (including internet-ready HDTV; XBOX; and Blu-Ray) connectivity to the internet network, no wires.

By Ki grinsing

See also:

1. Computer networking cable the concept
2. Networking home computer – a basic guideline
3. an example of IT risk assessment
4. how to calculate router summarization – the easiest way to calculate route with multiple subnets
5. Virtual LAN tutorial – guidelines insight of Virtual LAN