February 12th, 2009
Tax Refund Special: Home networking
You’d have to be pretty hardcore about networking to drop a $2,500 tax refund completely on your home network, but you can do it if you really try. Here’s how you can put together a great networking setup with a supersized budget.
Router
You obviously have to start with a good router, and with this budget, you don’t have to go bargain hunting for the lowest priced 802.11n out there. Instead, you can splurge on something like the Linksys WRT610N Simultaneous Dual-N Band Wireless Router, which can work over 2.4GHz and 5GHz frequencies at the same time. It’s perfect if you have legacy 2.4GHz devices, while the 5GHz performance is impressive. You even get a USB port so you can attach an external hard drive and have instant network attached storage. You’ll also want to grab a Linksys Wireless-N USB Network Adapter with Dual-Band for another computer on the network.
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Sean Portnoy spent several years as an editor at Computer Shopper magazine, most recently serving as online executive editor. See his full profile and disclosure of his industry affiliations.
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