Are you in the market for a new home router? If so, this article comparing current routers can be very helpful:

Dual-Band Router Showdown

From the article:

Over the years, router makers have been cobbling together “Pre-N,” “Draft-N,” and any myriad number of products with names that associate their devices with the 802.11n standard without actually saying they are the standard — because they’re not, because there isn’t one. They’re all based on draft proposals that keep inching closer to what the standard could be. Latest out of the blocks is dual-band 802.11n.

Why have we bothered to wait around for so long? It’s because 802.11n is better and faster than 802.11g — the current honest-to-goodness standard. Yes, it really is. Multiple input multiple output, or MIMO, technology, allows a router to send more information over multiple radios at the same time and receive data more reliably, thanks to multiple antennas. Better still, since it can compare the different antennas’ data streams, it can fill in any missing data to derive the correct content.

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