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The Best Wifi Range Extender

If you want to have a high performance wireless network right at your home, you should take your traditional wireless router and introduce it with the many cool stuffs available in the market today. A regular Wireless N Router costs between $75 and $350. If you want to share storage space and make it accessible to everyone in your network and to other people who has internet access, you will need a Network Access Storage (NAS), which can cost from $75 up to hundreds of bucks depending on the capacity and kind. When you have an NAS, you can manage as well as share files accessible to authorized users, within a local network or over the internet. But you might need an FTP server to download or access the files via the internet.

D-Link offers an amazing DIR-685 Storage Router that combines all the cool features of a draft 802.11n wireless router, a Network Access Storage, an FTP server and a Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) AV server. On top of that, the DIR-685 also has a digital photo frame feature plus a D-Link Green power saving adjustment, allowing it to provide ultimate user experience without wasting energy. With the DIR-865 Storage Router, you will be able to share a broadband internet connection with any computer in the house wire-less. All you have to do is to connect the router to the cable or DSL modem and voila, you now have a wireless connection at home.

Aside from the DIR-865 Storage Router, D-Link is also the home of the best wireless range extender in the market today. A wireless range extender is a tool that increases the distance or coverage over which a WLAN signal spreads, overcoming every obstacle while enhancing overall network signal quality. There are a lot of forms as far as the available wireless range extenders are concerned. Wireless range extenders are also called “range expanders” or “signal boosters”.

D-Link’s wireless range extended works as a relay or as a network repeater. What is does is that it picks up WiFi signals and reflect these signals back to a network’s base router or access point. However, the network performance of the other devices that are connected to and through a wireless range extender will be significantly lower compared to having it directly connected to the primary base station.

Although D-Link has shown impressive results and features with their routers and wireless range extenders, not all that you find in the market will promise the same. A wireless range extender easily connects wire-less to a WiFi router or access point. But because of the nature of this technology, most wireless extenders in the market today only work with a limited set of tools. So before you buy any router or signal booster, check first the manufacturer’s specifications for compatibility.