good speed, good features and plenty of flexibility make this a winner

Good value, but without the decent performance or the feature set of our current award winners this time

Although it’s not a screamer at short range, the good long-range performance (at 5GHz at least) makes the Linksys WRT610N an attractive choice

An absolute steal at this price – great performance and superb value make this a must for next-gen WiFi junkies

D-Link offers a well-built desktop NAS appliance that looks good value, but for business users it’s short of features

The DIR-855 is among the fastest wireless routers in our tests and would be particularly attractive to all-Windows networks.

Packed with great features and offering decent coverage, the DIR-655 is a winner at this price.

This unit is quite similar to the Pinnacle ShowCentre in look, as it's a wide and deep slimline component for nestling in amongst your other hi-fi componentry.

The D-Link DWL-7000AP is a wireless access point that is friendly towards all 802.11 devices. It's a dual-band/tri-mode wireless device - this means the 7000AP supports all three 'g', 'b' and 'a' standards. If you have one of these, you don't need to worry about what other 802.11 devices you will be using - chances are they'll talk.

This tri-band PCI wireless adaptor is designed to work with all of the ratified 802.11 standards.

Tiny, lightweight and rugged, this USB thumb drive 802.11b adaptor features 64- and 128-bit WEP security making it ideal for frequent travellers and notebook users without a free PCMCIA slot.

Telstra says it now has more than 300,000 ADSL subscribers and is on target to reach a million by 2005. The problem with home ADSL is that unlike cable, Telstra doesn’t make it easy to network even though it requires an Ethernet connection. Interestingly, the Ethernet requirement for broadband Internet connectivity is also helping to drive the rising popularity of home networks.

This is another dual-band 802.11a/802.11b PCMCIA adaptor that offers the best of both worlds.

This access point did not perform very well, the only exception was an admirable performance for the short file transfer with good reception.

The D-Link DWL-650+ PCMCIA card was paired with the DWL Dl-614+ access point in our tests and they made for a dire couple, returning bad times and high data dropouts in almost every case.

For many small businesses or home offices, a wireless router will be a core component of your network. We've looked for routers from Linksys, Netgear, D-Link, Netcomm and others.

Internet everywhere, for affordable prices. Dave Stevenson investigates the claims, tests the speeds and delivers a verdict on the best plan for your mobile dollars.

Poor coverage means the Zyxel isn’t a bargain.