Cheap meats effective in this scalable, rackmountable, professional KVM switch.

We explain port forwarding and triggering, firewalls and traffic filtering, the DMZ and other broadband bits you should know.

Seven USB ports delivered with characteristic Belkin quality and price.

Not as stylish as the Dell, but the BenQ’s image quality and HDMI port make it our top 24in LCD.

If laptops were cars, then the Pioneer Power 470 would be a caravan - a quick scan of the specs reveals that it has almost everything. The 470 model we tested was a 3.06GHz Pentium 4 unit with a large 60GB of drive space and 256MB of DDR.

Just where do you start? Best point would be to introduce this Vaio as the first commercial offering designed and built from the ground up for Windows XP. The next point is simply that this is the most visually stunning notebook we have seen in a long time.

Although the basics of this router are somewhat low spec (no 802.11n or Gigabit Ethernet), the extras do make it interesting.

The especially full feature set of the 7404VNOX makes it stand out from the crowd.

USB 2.0 hard disks are a convenient way of backing up your data, but if you want to share the files with other computers over a small office or home network they're not ideal. But Linksys has an alternative. The Network Storage Link (NSL) takes a USB 2.0 hard disk or flash drive and puts it on the network.

Poor coverage means the Zyxel isn’t a bargain.

The best convertible tablet we’ve seen great performance and great design at a decent price.

It's a sign of the times when Compaq's Aero 8000 runs Windows CE in a box bigger than a Sharp PC-A250 (reviewed issue 23, p86) running Windows 98. So what's the big idea? Windows CE uses no moving parts, while software in ROM means immediate start-up times, high reliability, and long battery life all highly desirable qualities in a portable.

Impressive and free antivirus and antispyware package

Superb styling, packed with ports and features, and now with an increased colour gamut

Poor image quality and no DVI port make this one to avoid

A great choice for anyone who needs a backup to their broadband connection

David Moss tackles misbehaving com ports and resolves a windows share issue.

Fast, cheap to run and offering flawless text quality, this is a great-value option.

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

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