We want to offer the best routers on the market, at prices and specifications to suit all our customers.
That’s why the products below have been hand-picked by our technical experts to fulfil your needs. From a very affordable £35 to a high-spec and ultra-secure dual-WAN product – you should find a router perfect for you.
How do we know? Well we’ve just finished some intensive research into just this topic. Our experts looked at the most popular products on the market, analysed what our competitors were using – and most importantly asked our customers. We ended up getting a bigger response than in any survey ever launched, so we know that getting the right router is key.
As a result, we ordered a lot of test devices to make sure the routers we felt best fit customer needs, really lived up to their hype. Each of the 6 products below has been tested and re-tested – to make sure they are fit for purpose in terms of both features and brand values.
We hope you find what you’re looking for from our selection – and to make the choice easier, we have suggested which devices are perfect for each of our connections.
Suitable for: Home Broadband Business Broadband
The ZyXEL AMG1202-T10A featuring wireless N technology, provides the ultimate solution for speed and coverage. With a wireless speed of up to 150 Mbps, the AMG1202-T10A provides stable and reliable wireless connections for high-speed data and multimedia delivery, such as music and video streaming, or voice and video conferencing in the office environment. It eliminates wireless dead zones and extends coverage by using IEEE 802.11n technology, and is also backward compatible with any wireless B or G certified device. All ADSL routers include at least one free micro filter.
Suitable for: Home Fibre
The Netgear N300 WNR2200 Wireless Router is ideal for both professional and personal Internet use, providing Wireless-N speed for simultaneous downloads, voice and music, and online gaming. Storage for downloads is easy with ReadySHARE® for shared access to a USB storage device. NETGEAR Genie® CD-less installation enables easy dashboard control.
Suitable for: Home Fibre Business Fibre
With better wireless performance and coverage than older wireless G routers, the NBG4604 allows users to enjoy real-time IPTV, VoIP, online gaming and video streaming with or without wires. Suitable for any Eclipse FTTx connection, the ZyXEL NBG4604 Wireless N Gigabit Managed router integrates a Gigabit WAN port (used to connect to the FTTx/cable modem), a four-port Gigabit Ethernet switch and a 802.11b/g/n Wireless access point for copnnecting all your internal network devices such desktop computers, laptops, tablet devices and smart phones.
Suitable for: Home Broadband Business Broadband
The NETGEAR N300 DGN2200M is a fully featured Wireless-N router with Integrated ADSL2+ Modem and a failover or backup option to connect to 3G Mobile Broadband in case of a broadband outage. Internet traffic will be temporarily routed using the secondary Mobile Broadband connection. When normal service is restored to your primary broadband line, all traffic is switched back. With Wireless N, the DGN2200M also offers great wireless coverage and speed for streaming music and video, or in an office enviroment for VoIP and conference calling. All ADSL routers include at least 1 free micro filter.
Suitable for: Business Fibre Business Broadband
The Vigor 2830 is one the latest generation of ADSL broadband router/firewall from Draytek and has been the winner of the PC Pro wireless router award for three years in a row. This latest series includes support for professional features such as VLAN tagging, Gigabit Ethernet and WiFi. The Vigor 2830's secondary WAN interface can be connected to other modems (e.g. a second ADSL broadband line, Eclipse Fibre or cable modem etc). All ADSL routers include at least 1 free micro filter.
Suitable for: Business Fibre
The Vigor 2920 series is a dual-WAN Firewall Router, with excellent performance to run both WAN interfaces simultaneously. Security is a major feature of the Vigor 2920 Series. The firewall features are measures for protection against attacks including DoS (Denial of Service) attacks, IP-based attacks and access by unauthorised remote systems. Wireless, Ethernet and VPN are also protected by various protection systems. The DrayTek object-based firewall allows vast flexibility, enabling you to create combinations of users, rules and restrictions to suit multi-departmental organisations.
