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Last Rated:	1. Linksys Wireless-G Broadband Router with SRX - WRT54GX Airgo True MIMO, 128-bit WEP and WPA encryption , Features: Very Good, Installation: Very Good, Price when ranked: $274 Bottom Line: This pricey product offers an excellent combination of easy setup, documentation, and tech support. It has the best VPN support and ranked number two overall in our performance tests. Full Review • Test Report • Check latest prices	Check Latest Prices
Last Rated:	2. Belkin Belkin F5D8230-4 Wireless Pre-N Broadband Router Airgo True MIMO, 128-bit WEP and WPA encryption , Features: Very Good, Installation: Very Good, Price when ranked: $238 Bottom Line: This Airgo-based combo has a fair price and a nice design plus strong long-range performance, ease of use, and support. But its short-range performance is worse than that of cheaper non-MIMO products. Full Review • Test Report • Check latest prices	Check Latest Prices
Last Rated:	3. Netgear Pre-N Wireless Router Airgo True MIMO, 128-bit WEP and WPA encryption , Features: Good, Installation: Good, Price when ranked: $217 Bottom Line: Netgear's Airgo-based product aced our long-range tests, but it straggled at shorter distances. Antennas easily slipped out of a boxy case that seems best suited for small businesses. Full Review • Test Report • Check latest prices	Check Latest Prices
Last Rated:	4. D-Link Super G MIMO Wireless Router Atheros Super G with Smart Antenna, 128-bit WEP and WPA encryption , Features: Good, Installation: Good, Price when ranked: $205 Bottom Line: The D-Link was a middle-of-the-pack performer at short and middle ranges, but slower at long range. For best results it uses channel bonding, which may not kick in if other Wi-Fi networks are in range. Full Review • Test Report •
Last Rated:	5. US Robotics Wireless MAXg Router with integrated USB Print Server Broadcom Encore, 128-bit WEP, WPA, and WPA2 encryption , Features: Outstanding, Installation: Good, Price when ranked: $121 Bottom Line: This low-cost, non-MIMO product includes a built-in USB print server and earned top marks in our short-range and midrange tests. But it couldn't complete our long-range tests, and it lacks 24/7 phone support. Full Review • Test Report • Check latest prices	Check Latest Prices
Last Rated:	6. Netgear WPN824 RangeMax Wireless Router Atheros Super G and Video54 BeamFlex, 128-bit WEP and WPA encryption , Features: Fair, Installation: Fair, Price when ranked: $206 Bottom Line: The strongest MIMO performer at close and middle range but undistinguished at long range, this model lost points for a default setting that kept channel bonding on when other 802.11b/g networks were in range. Full Review • Test Report • Check latest prices	Check Latest Prices

We tested each router and corresponding PC Card in a series of short-range, medium-range, and long-range tests conducted in a real-world suburban home. In the close-range tests, the router was set up in a home office with the client set up approximately 6 feet away in the same room. In the medium-range tests, the router remained in the office while the client was moved two rooms away. All doors were closed and a wall of metal filing cabinets stood in the path of the signal. In the long-range tests, the router remained in the office while the client was set up in the backyard, about 100 feet away. Our server test bed, which was connected to the router via ethernet, was a 3-GHz ABS Pentium 4 system running Suse Linux 9.2. Our client test beds were five identical IBM ThinkPad T52 notebook PCs. Though each of these would normally ship with an internal Wi-Fi card, IBM removed them for our testing purposes. Our standard 802.11g client test bed was a Toshiba Tecra M3. We ran a script that contained a series of tests. We uploaded and downloaded a 48MB file using the Windows FTP client. We used Windows ping to measure the average response time (aka latency) between the client and the server on a pass of 40 packets of data. We also measured the number of lost packets. We ran our tests multiple times over several different days.