This aluminium storage box is a prime candidate for a living-room media network, especially if you need 1TB of storage space.

A veritable Swiss Army Knife of a NAS drive, the QNAP TS-119 Turbo NAS has every feature under the sun

A comprehensive set of features and good performance

With more homes served by their own wired and wireless networks, there’s no better way to store all your music, movies and documents than a NAS box like this

Fast and blessed with some truly useful features - a router that's well worth investing in

Fast, full of features and with mobile broadband support, but just a little too expensive

The arrival of dual-n band networking with 5GHz promises an end to crowded home wireless networks. Speed, range and technology is great, but the price is steep

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

Innovation and solid performance in an attractive package make the N1 Vision stand out, but it’s expensive

Smart and easy to use, and can be positioned vertically or horizontally

Zyxel's build-your-own approach offers good value

A quiet and efficient device, but expensive at 48p per gigabyte

Lack of online content and copy-protected music are problems, but no HDMI is a major headache

You've got Gigabytes of music on your PC. You have an expensive stereo system in your lounge room. Enter the SqueezeBox Duet.

Belkin’s N1 Vision is an eye catching wireless modem router that combines a sleek design profile with big speeds.

Beautifully designed with a clear interface, but format support is limited

It lacks Wi-Fi, but is otherwise an excellent budget video-streaming choice

A Media Center Extender, upscaling DVD player and great games console

Great speed for a wireless router, but lacking features for the price.

Excellent speed, both wired and wireless, but this comes at a hefty price.