Netgears engineers have kept all the antennas on the inside, resulting in a sleeker, more efficient device

With huge range potential and ready for hardcore streaming, this is a router that'll serve you well for the next few years at least. Nice work Netgear

Compatible with both 802.11b and g, the WRE54G Range Expander is undeniably a simple solution to add range to your network. It's one of the only examples of such kit on the market, too. Acting as a repeater, the WRE54G picks up signal from your existing r...

Unique product

Expensive

We envisage it to be most useful when you have good range in the main part of your house or office, but poor range in another part of the building. It could also help in multi-storey homes - after all, it's cheaper than Powerline for this purpose

Under its uninspiring exterior is a very capable piece of hardware

Very capable

Complex to set up

It also has the bandwidth-reserving QoS function, but adds wireless 802.11g support and a USB port for sharing your printer over the network. What's more, the QoS is customisable, enabling you to reserve a percentage of your bandwidth at specific times

Using a chip doubler, the Netgear can effectively gain an increased data throughput

Good data rate

Not the fastest overall

Using a chip doubler, the Netgear can effectively gain an increased data throughput over that offered by a standard 54Mbps connection. What this means in practise is you'll regularly achieve a data rate of 38Mbps. This is a more than acceptable rate, espe...

Trust has revamped its cheap and cheerful solution for beaming video signals around the house. So is the new improved Televiewer a savvy buy or a false economy?

Easy to set up and reliable video sender; reasonable versatility

Rubbish manual; another £80 gets you a superior Philips Streamium