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What is a wireless router?

A wireless router converts and broadcasts the signals coming across your telephone wire around a fixed area, working on the on same principle as a cordless home telephone.

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This broadcasted signal is then picked up by wireless-enabled devices like laptops and gaming consoles, giving them wireless broadband connectivity throughout the house.

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Wireless routers are commonly included in wireless broadband packages and are popular in homes where multiple devices connect to the internet at the same time.

What wireless routers do:

  • Provide wireless internet to wireless-enabled devices such as computers, laptops and gaming consoles
  • Can be used to make VoIP calls
  • Facilitate digital TV

Top wireless routers

  • BT HomeHub 2.0 - Free with some BT broadband packages, more details below
  • Netgear DG834GT - Free with Sky and AOL Broadband broadband packages, £49.99 with UK Online broadband packages
  • Thompson Speedtouch 780 - Free with O2, Pipex Business and Be broadband packages
  • Thompson Speedtouch 585 - Free with all Tiscali broadband packages
  • Thompson Speedtouch 330 - Free with Toucan broadband packages and DST option 4
  • Alcatel Speedtouch 510 - Free with Demon broadband packages
  • Orange live box - Free with all Orange broadbnad packages
  • D-Link DSL 2640 - Free with all PlusNet consumer packages
  • DSL-924 - Free with all Madasafish packages
  • BT Voyager - Free with Plusnet business packages
  • Netgear WGR614 - Free with Virgin Media M, L and XL broadband packages
  • Zyxel 660HW - Free with Namesco broadband packages and DST option 4 pro

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Top 10 Recommends

BT's HomeHub 2.0, an upgraded version of the 1.5 edition truely blows all other wireless routers out of the water.

Hailed as the iPod of wireless routers, the HomeHub is more than just a visual stunner it has brains too. In addition to making it easy to connect PCs, laptops and gaming consoles to the internet wirelessly, the HomeHub allows you to make calls over the internet, either with the BT HubPhone (£49.99) or with any touch-tone phone. Furthermore, it has a built in firewall, parental controls and automatic security updates to keep you and your family safe online.

In terms of style, BT have moved away from the plain white of the 1.5 Hub in favour of a new black shiny style. Finally a wireless router that can take pride of place in any home.

Using improved N-standard technology, the HomeHub is ahead of the competition giving you wireless signal in areas where wireless has never been available before, like the bottom of your garden. As an ADSL2+ router, it is capable of offering you the maximum speeds available in the UK (if you can get them in your area).

The HomeHub is usually priced at £89.99, but is currently free on BT broadband options 2 and 3 for a limited time!!

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