A solid draft-n router with NAS and media-streaming features – though it’s a little on the slow side.

Apple Time Capsule owners can now access their files from afar thanks to a tie-in with Apple's Mobileme service.

Although its design is no more exciting than a grilled cheese sandwich, the Billion BiPac 7300N is functional and easy to set up.

TP-Link’s basic router offers good performance at a good price and even throws in some easy setup features for first-timers.

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

Not a great performer in testing, but a firmware update that delivers the performance we saw with the TL-WR841ND would make it great value.

Buffalo is first to show off the recently ratified Draft 802.11n specification, but the Nfiniti doesn’t really showcase its talents

Wireless networking at 10/100 speeds, with range to match.

Respectable performance and a security assistant makes the Belkin N1 Vision a good contender for a small office.

A good demonstration of the benefits of 802.11n, and a good choice for offices requiring a basic router.

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

Striking looks but limited features, average performance and a high price put paid to the Netgear’s chances

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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