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Originally Posted by Kushan
These days, they're effectively mini servers.
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as many of them have usb3 ports and can act as file and print servers one of the things you'll find them benchmarking now are the read and write ntfs speeds to external hdds. Some people who are very black and white might say that you shouldn't use a router for that and it should be used for what it is, but for those who do want the extra features it is definitely useful information to know because you would be ****ed if you bought one to only find out that it is rubbish. The perfect analogy would be when people were buying Linksys routers a few years ago (it might have been the E2500) which had "gigabit" ports, but the wan to lan throughput was 94mbits
This is the kind of stuff that is good to know.
Apart from tri-band wireless, the new in thing is mu-mimo wireless. It is definitely the way forward as wireless technology continues to develop and get better and better. Everything will end up being wireless and we will want increasingly stable connections at higher speeds.