Wal-Mart Reviewers hit the nail on the head on this one. After four routers and still dissatisfied with download speed and dead zones, I turned to the reviewers' remarks to find the best router I could without getting a second mortgage. Netgear is the best brand, as many reviewers declared, so I concentrated on that brand, and it didn't take me long to see that this Nighthawk received the most consistently great reviews. Based on that only, I ordered it online, picked it up the same day, took it out of the box, followed the boldly printed, easy directions, and my kids were downloading YouTube videos within five minutes, all at record speeds for our house. And we have an old house with the kids' "wing" very far away from my office (location of the router), separated by a vinyl-covered asbestos wall... you can imagine how hard it is to get good wi-fi reception. However, they've got it now (even though I placed a Netgear wi-fi extender in a room between us, just to be safe). This router somehow knew to connect with DirecTV and the kids' computers almost automatically, and we did very little to finish setting them up. Like I said, less than five minutes, start to finish, and we have about six wi-fi devices in the house. Could not be more pleased with this router, and if one of the dogs eats this one, I'll be the exact same model the next day at Wal-Mart (and cheaper dog food for a while too).
