Buying The Right Kind Of Router
You look online and go to your local retailer looking for a router; the only problem is there are literally hundreds of choices out there. The trick to finding the right router is to narrow down your needs. If you don-t need wireless access, just focus on ones that don-t have that feature. If you have multiple floors in your home and you do not have the house wired for networking, wireless may be a good choice so you can connect across different levels of your home without running cables everywhere. If your equipment is all in one room and you have no plans for expanding, a wired router may be the best choice.
Most routers run with some ports that are listed as “fast’ or “10/100mbps’. This type is standard even on wireless routers. If you move large amounts of information you may want to take it a bit further. There are both wired and wireless routers that feature “Gigabit’ or 1000mbps ports on them. This port is also backward compatible to the other speeds as well, but as long as the connecting computers have the right adapters installed, you can use that speed boost to help you get your work done that much faster.