**The Evolution of Wi-Fi Routers**

As technology advances, so do the capabilities and features of Wi-Fi routers. In recent years, we've seen significant improvements in router design, performance, and functionality. From basic 2.4 gigahertz band to advanced dual-band and simultaneous dual-band office routers, there's a wide range of options available for home users and businesses alike.

**5 Gigahertz Band**

One of the latest developments in Wi-Fi technology is the support for the 5 gigahertz band. This newer frequency offers faster speeds and better performance compared to the traditional 2.4 gigahertz band. However, not many devices such as cell phones, game consoles, etc., support this new frequency, making it essential to have a router that supports both bands simultaneously. To cater to this need, dual-band routers have emerged, offering two separate Wi-Fi networks: one for the 2.4 gigahertz band and another for the 5 gigahertz band.

**Dual-Band Routers**

Dual-band routers are designed to support both 2.4 gigahertz and 5 gigahertz bands simultaneously. These routers provide two distinct Wi-Fi networks, allowing users to switch between them seamlessly. This feature is particularly useful for households with multiple devices, each requiring a different frequency band. With dual-band routers, users can enjoy faster speeds on their devices while still maintaining a stable connection.

**Simultaneous Dual-Band Office Routers**

For businesses and organizations that require high-speed internet connectivity, simultaneous dual-band office routers are the way to go. These routers offer two separate networks: one for the 2.4 gigahertz band and another for the 5 gigahertz band. This setup allows multiple devices to connect to different frequency bands simultaneously, ensuring optimal performance and minimizing interference.

**USB Port Functionality**

Many modern Wi-Fi routers come equipped with a USB port at the back, providing additional functionality beyond basic internet connectivity. These USB ports can be used to attach storage devices, such as pen drives or portable hard drives, allowing users to access their files remotely. Additionally, some routers support streaming features, enabling users to stream content from attached devices.

**3G Data Card Support**

Some Wi-Fi routers now support 3G data cards, allowing users to share internet connectivity with other devices. This feature is particularly useful for individuals who frequently use 3G data cards and want to extend their internet coverage. With this functionality, users can enjoy faster speeds and greater convenience.

**Download Manager and Torrent Client**

Some high-end Wi-Fi routers come equipped with a download manager and torrent client, enabling users to download files or torrents without the need for a PC. This feature is particularly useful for individuals who frequently download large files or engage in peer-to-peer file sharing.

**Guest Network Support**

Another essential feature of modern Wi-Fi routers is guest network support. This allows users to create a separate network for guests, ensuring that they cannot access the main network and its devices. Guest networks are particularly useful for households with frequent visitors or for businesses that need to provide secure internet connectivity for external clients.

**Wi-Fi Throughput**

When choosing a Wi-Fi router, it's essential to consider the actual Wi-Fi throughput of the device. This can be difficult to determine, so it's recommended to check reviews and online forums for information on the range offered by a particular router. Additionally, if you use multiple devices or have a large household with many Wi-Fi-enabled devices, look for routers that can handle loads easily.

**Expandability**

Finally, some Wi-Fi routers offer advanced expandability features, such as open-form support. This allows users to install custom firmware, such as DD-WRT, enabling them to customize their router's performance and security features. With these features, users can enjoy greater control over their internet connection and take advantage of advanced networking capabilities.

In conclusion, the evolution of Wi-Fi routers has brought numerous improvements in terms of speed, functionality, and convenience. From basic 2.4 gigahertz band to advanced dual-band and simultaneous dual-band office routers, there's a wide range of options available for home users and businesses alike. By considering factors such as Wi-Fi throughput, expandability, and guest network support, users can find the perfect router to meet their needs and enjoy faster, more reliable internet connectivity.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enhi there this is Ranjit from tech Tabasco and in this video I'm going to talk about what to look for when you're purchasing a new Wi-Fi router the thing is that I have been getting a lot of questions regarding Wi-Fi routers for the last couple of weeks and hence I have actually written an article on my website take two bus comm where I discuss some of the points that you need to look at when buying a Wi-Fi router you can read that in the show the link is in the show notes and I'm also going to talk about them right now the Wi-Fi routers are priced from the lower end that's approximately $30 that's about rupees 1,300 to 1,400 - all the way to rupees 11,000 that's about $200 as you might have noticed there is a lot of variation between the price from $30 to $200 so what do you get and is it a wise decision to just to go for the most expensive Wi-Fi router no I don't feel that everybody requires a very expensive router and I'm going to talk about some of the features that you get with the Wi-Fi routers the first thing is the with every Wi-Fi router you also get Ethernet ports like these generally we have four Ethernet ports the thing with Ethernet port side ports is that with a budget router you generally get the port's that are of 100 Mbps and I feel that that's more than enough for a normal user but if you are a user who transfers a lot of data every day between multiple bar computers I think so a Gigabit Ethernet port that's thousand Mbps port will be beneficial also if you have a device like an ass that's network attached storage a Gigabit Ethernet port on your router makes sense but again do note that routers which have gigabit ethernet ports are a little bit expensive the second thing is the Wi-Fi speeds with your aura generally the budget routers these days most of the routers that are sold in the market have the end specification then your routers you will get with the dmg specification just avoid that even the end routers are pretty cheap these days the basic end routers des that's basically called n 150 all sold approximately at about thirty to thirty-five dollars and you get a speed of our 150 megabits per second no no these are the theoretical speeds in the real world expect speeds to drop a doubt about fifty percent that's normal nothing to be alarmed about it but I would suggest that do not just go ahead and buy these n 150 routers instead of that up your budget a little bit just about 500 rupees or $10 more and you can get routers off the N 300 basically what n 300 is that these routers employed to and dena so you get a theoretical speed of 300 Mbps and I feel these are much better than n 150 routers that are sold in the market because these artists offer definitely better throughput and the second thing is because of the dual antennas and then they offer better range and do note that all these routers the N 150 and 300 budget travelers run on the 2.4 gigahertz Wi-Fi ban most of the routers unless specified run on the 2.4 gigahertz band but the problem with the 2.4 gigahertz band is that especially in the urban and apartments where you have a lot of existing Wi-Fi networks it might get consistent for example even in my apartment at any time I get about 10 Wi-Fi networks and most of them are on the 2.4 gigahertz band as you might have noticed that if there are a lot of Wi-Fi networks around you especially if you are in an urban environment your throughput is going to go down like crazy and to my gate that these manufacturers have now started new routers that support the 5 gigahertz band the thing with five yards band is that right now it's not congested because it's fairly new so if you are living in an apartment or an area where you have a lot of congestion with the 2.4 you might need to move to the five gigahertz man but everything is not rosy with the five gigahertz band the first problem is that change with the fine gigahertz man is not as good as 2.4 gigahertz generally I say it's about 65% of the range that you get for the 2.4 gigahertz and second thing is that not many devices support the five in the Hertz mind especially budget devices do not support that and only higher-end laptops and devices support the 5w expand again as you might have expected router that supports this 5 gigahertz band is much more expensive than the router that supports 2.4 gigahertz band next we come to the simultaneous dual band office as we are talking about those gigahertz actually band 2.4 gigahertz and the 5 gigahertz some of the routers you can select between the 2.4 gigahertz and the 5 gigahertz but the problem is that as I mentioned earlier not many devices for example cell phones game consoles etc support the 5 gigahertz band so there was a need for a router to support basically the 2.4 gigahertz and even the 5 gigahertz simultaneously so we arrived at these new types of routers these are known as dual point simultaneous alters and these can run 2.4 gigahertz and 5 regards band simultaneously so basically you have two Wi-Fi networks one runs on the 2.4 gigahertz and this second ones of the 5 gigahertz simple basic so sorry five gigahertz band the thing with the dual band of this as you might have expected is that again these these are one of the most expensive routers in the market the next thing that you might need to look as as many of these routers these days support a USB port at the back and these USB port can have multiple functionality basically most of the routers that have that USB port provide basic storage basically you can attach a pen drawing or a portable hard drive to it and thus you can basically store data on that and that data can be accessible throughout your network so basically it can act as a mean-ass and many of the routers also support streaming features Wow the attached device musically they support the the next thing is that some of the routers these days have started supporting 3G data cards so if you have if you use as a 3G data card and your router supports that you can share your internet connection from the 3G data card using a router so if you frequently use a 3G data card look for a router that supports the 3G data that functionality the next thing is that some of the routers that have a USB port at the back support a download manager and a torrent client so basically if a router supports this functionality it can download files or even torrents to attach hard drive even when your PC is switched off so if you download a lot of torrents or big files look for a router that supports this download manager or a torrent functionality the next thing is that some of the routers have this guest network support basically what I mean is that you you will have your primary Wi-Fi network but some routers can have the functionality of setting up one more network they generally call this a guest network so if you get a lot of guests frequently you can set up a guest network and the advantage of the guest network is that people who are using the guest network cannot access your main network so they cannot access your main computers or etc the next thing is that you need to look at the actual Wi-Fi throughput of your router this is not easy to determine so the for buying our router check with the reviews if the range offered by that Wi-Fi router is good the second thing is that if you use a lot of Wi-Fi devices I mean more than five or six Wi-Fi devices you also need to add a couple of other devices that are connected to your Ethernet network you need to look at the actual throughput of your router under load most of the routers will perform great if just one or two Wi-Fi device or one wire computers are attached but lower end routers might have a problem when you have say one computer streaming video another come downloading something and for example I mean that you have multiple Wi-Fi devices connected to that router how well does it handle so just keep that into mind many cheap routers might have a problem with that but most of the high-end routers have very good processor for example 500 to 600 megahertz processor and then ample ROM not a 64 MB to 128 MB and they can handle loads easily with multiple devices the last thing that you need to look is that if you are looking for advanced expandability of your router does your router support open form where it's like dd-wrt etc I've spoken about dd-wrt earlier in my other videos you can check this link for more info so these are some of the points that you need to look at before purchasing a Wi-Fi router I hope this video makes sense and I if you feel that this video was helpful I'll appreciate if you click on the like button given below you can also subscribe to my channel for free by clicking on this link that's it for now this is Ranjith for tech tabasco and hopefully i'm going to see you in my next video youhi there this is Ranjit from tech Tabasco and in this video I'm going to talk about what to look for when you're purchasing a new Wi-Fi router the thing is that I have been getting a lot of questions regarding Wi-Fi routers for the last couple of weeks and hence I have actually written an article on my website take two bus comm where I discuss some of the points that you need to look at when buying a Wi-Fi router you can read that in the show the link is in the show notes and I'm also going to talk about them right now the Wi-Fi routers are priced from the lower end that's approximately $30 that's about rupees 1,300 to 1,400 - all the way to rupees 11,000 that's about $200 as you might have noticed there is a lot of variation between the price from $30 to $200 so what do you get and is it a wise decision to just to go for the most expensive Wi-Fi router no I don't feel that everybody requires a very expensive router and I'm going to talk about some of the features that you get with the Wi-Fi routers the first thing is the with every Wi-Fi router you also get Ethernet ports like these generally we have four Ethernet ports the thing with Ethernet port side ports is that with a budget router you generally get the port's that are of 100 Mbps and I feel that that's more than enough for a normal user but if you are a user who transfers a lot of data every day between multiple bar computers I think so a Gigabit Ethernet port that's thousand Mbps port will be beneficial also if you have a device like an ass that's network attached storage a Gigabit Ethernet port on your router makes sense but again do note that routers which have gigabit ethernet ports are a little bit expensive the second thing is the Wi-Fi speeds with your aura generally the budget routers these days most of the routers that are sold in the market have the end specification then your routers you will get with the dmg specification just avoid that even the end routers are pretty cheap these days the basic end routers des that's basically called n 150 all sold approximately at about thirty to thirty-five dollars and you get a speed of our 150 megabits per second no no these are the theoretical speeds in the real world expect speeds to drop a doubt about fifty percent that's normal nothing to be alarmed about it but I would suggest that do not just go ahead and buy these n 150 routers instead of that up your budget a little bit just about 500 rupees or $10 more and you can get routers off the N 300 basically what n 300 is that these routers employed to and dena so you get a theoretical speed of 300 Mbps and I feel these are much better than n 150 routers that are sold in the market because these artists offer definitely better throughput and the second thing is because of the dual antennas and then they offer better range and do note that all these routers the N 150 and 300 budget travelers run on the 2.4 gigahertz Wi-Fi ban most of the routers unless specified run on the 2.4 gigahertz band but the problem with the 2.4 gigahertz band is that especially in the urban and apartments where you have a lot of existing Wi-Fi networks it might get consistent for example even in my apartment at any time I get about 10 Wi-Fi networks and most of them are on the 2.4 gigahertz band as you might have noticed that if there are a lot of Wi-Fi networks around you especially if you are in an urban environment your throughput is going to go down like crazy and to my gate that these manufacturers have now started new routers that support the 5 gigahertz band the thing with five yards band is that right now it's not congested because it's fairly new so if you are living in an apartment or an area where you have a lot of congestion with the 2.4 you might need to move to the five gigahertz man but everything is not rosy with the five gigahertz band the first problem is that change with the fine gigahertz man is not as good as 2.4 gigahertz generally I say it's about 65% of the range that you get for the 2.4 gigahertz and second thing is that not many devices support the five in the Hertz mind especially budget devices do not support that and only higher-end laptops and devices support the 5w expand again as you might have expected router that supports this 5 gigahertz band is much more expensive than the router that supports 2.4 gigahertz band next we come to the simultaneous dual band office as we are talking about those gigahertz actually band 2.4 gigahertz and the 5 gigahertz some of the routers you can select between the 2.4 gigahertz and the 5 gigahertz but the problem is that as I mentioned earlier not many devices for example cell phones game consoles etc support the 5 gigahertz band so there was a need for a router to support basically the 2.4 gigahertz and even the 5 gigahertz simultaneously so we arrived at these new types of routers these are known as dual point simultaneous alters and these can run 2.4 gigahertz and 5 regards band simultaneously so basically you have two Wi-Fi networks one runs on the 2.4 gigahertz and this second ones of the 5 gigahertz simple basic so sorry five gigahertz band the thing with the dual band of this as you might have expected is that again these these are one of the most expensive routers in the market the next thing that you might need to look as as many of these routers these days support a USB port at the back and these USB port can have multiple functionality basically most of the routers that have that USB port provide basic storage basically you can attach a pen drawing or a portable hard drive to it and thus you can basically store data on that and that data can be accessible throughout your network so basically it can act as a mean-ass and many of the routers also support streaming features Wow the attached device musically they support the the next thing is that some of the routers these days have started supporting 3G data cards so if you have if you use as a 3G data card and your router supports that you can share your internet connection from the 3G data card using a router so if you frequently use a 3G data card look for a router that supports the 3G data that functionality the next thing is that some of the routers that have a USB port at the back support a download manager and a torrent client so basically if a router supports this functionality it can download files or even torrents to attach hard drive even when your PC is switched off so if you download a lot of torrents or big files look for a router that supports this download manager or a torrent functionality the next thing is that some of the routers have this guest network support basically what I mean is that you you will have your primary Wi-Fi network but some routers can have the functionality of setting up one more network they generally call this a guest network so if you get a lot of guests frequently you can set up a guest network and the advantage of the guest network is that people who are using the guest network cannot access your main network so they cannot access your main computers or etc the next thing is that you need to look at the actual Wi-Fi throughput of your router this is not easy to determine so the for buying our router check with the reviews if the range offered by that Wi-Fi router is good the second thing is that if you use a lot of Wi-Fi devices I mean more than five or six Wi-Fi devices you also need to add a couple of other devices that are connected to your Ethernet network you need to look at the actual throughput of your router under load most of the routers will perform great if just one or two Wi-Fi device or one wire computers are attached but lower end routers might have a problem when you have say one computer streaming video another come downloading something and for example I mean that you have multiple Wi-Fi devices connected to that router how well does it handle so just keep that into mind many cheap routers might have a problem with that but most of the high-end routers have very good processor for example 500 to 600 megahertz processor and then ample ROM not a 64 MB to 128 MB and they can handle loads easily with multiple devices the last thing that you need to look is that if you are looking for advanced expandability of your router does your router support open form where it's like dd-wrt etc I've spoken about dd-wrt earlier in my other videos you can check this link for more info so these are some of the points that you need to look at before purchasing a Wi-Fi router I hope this video makes sense and I if you feel that this video was helpful I'll appreciate if you click on the like button given below you can also subscribe to my channel for free by clicking on this link that's it for now this is Ranjith for tech tabasco and hopefully i'm going to see you in my next video you\n"