A Look at Linksys Wireless Routers - Computers - Hardware

Linksys wireless routers are an old company. Truthfully, they've been around since the 1980's, way back when the only networks available were to be found in corporate offices.

You could say that Linksys was one of the founding fathers of the eventual wireless internet movement, innovating with some really great, fast, powerful, reliable wireless networking products well before the rest of the world had caught on.

What makes Linksys wireless routers so great today is that their testing ground is still the corporate world. Normal internet users as we happen to be, we don't have millions of dollars to pour into a network system being developed just for us. A corporate CEO, on the other hand, does.

So when a company wants a great wireless network set up, they pay a company like Linksys wireless routers a substantial fee to get it up and running. The end result is that the products and techniques developed during these big, long term contracts eventually trickle their way down to us, and by the time we get'em, the research and development stage is over and done with, and we wind up paying peanuts for the finished product.

The wireless routers we're using today come from decades of testing and fine tuning. When you're getting paid a six or seven figures to build a network, you can bet you're going to put your best foot forward on the project. So what we're getting isn't just chintzy little plastic boxes that send internet around the room, we're getting the same incredibly expensive research and development that the big guys pay for, at a microscopic fraction of the cost.

If the overwhelmingly positive reviews for the Linksys wrt54g are any indication, we'd say that this "trickle down" approach works just fine. We let Bill Gates and Steven Forbes pay the millions of dollars to perfect the technology, and we sit back and reap the rewards.

Even the basic at-home models, while not as heavy-duty, are nevertheless built on the same heavy-duty technology that Linksys uses for the big network routers, and the end result is simply perfect performance.

If you haven't yet, go ahead and jump on the wireless internet revolution already. It's a lot more convenient, it's easier, it's faster, and most importantly, thanks to a few hundreds of millions of dollars tossed about by big name CEOs, it's incredibly cheap these days to switch from your old wired router to a wireless Linksys unit.

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