Linksys are probably the biggest manufacture of home broadband routers, after all they are a sub division of Cisco who are the largest networking hardware supplier in the world. With some amazing technology and expertise behind them Linksys have developed some exceptionally good home broadband routers that include the latest ‘N’ technology to provide outstanding output and wireless range.

Here are three of the best Linksys broadband routers that are available on the market today.

Linksys E3000 Wireless N broadband router – The E3000 uses dual band wireless N technology and offers exceptional range with the use of very strong internal antennas. I managed speeds of over 100mbps internally and video streaming over the wireless network was very smooth indeed. Due to the dual band technology you can have your wireless network running at the same speeds you would get on a 10/100 wired network.

The E3000 also comes with a whole boat load of features. For starters you get a USB port on the router itself that allows you to connect up a USB hard drive or pen drive to then share files over the network quickly and easily. The four Ethernet ports all run at Gigabit speeds and give your wired devices very fast transfer speeds.

The security features are standard and you can use WPA/2 for maximum home protection, with a decent size passphrase this will make your network practically impossible to break into. Not only that but the E3000 has a built in SPI firewall to protect from the outside internet. Another nice little feature is the ability to allow users access to the internet but not to your shared files within the network. This creates a seperate virtual network where users authenticate with a username and password and can only access the internet.

Linksys WRT320N broadband router - Similar to the E3000 the WRT320N offers the same dual band technology. In the tests I did with this I found that the signal was stronger and extended further, which could be to do with the fact that it houses three powerful internal antennas.

Some of the features offered are the built in SPI firewall and the ability for the ‘one touch connect’ button to pair your wireless devices up faster than normal. The Ethernet ports run at gigabit speeds allowing for lightning fast transfer rates between wired clients.

The main differences between this and E3000 are the improvements on range (of which the E3000 already performs very well in!) I also managed slightly faster throughput when transferring files between two wireless devices.

Linksys WRT610N broadband router – Very similar to the E3000 in terms of features as well as the wireless range and speed that it offers. The 610N also offers the same dual band technology that gives optimal wireless N performance.

In speed tests I found the 610N to be slightly better than the E3000 and was able to tranfer at well over 100mbps. Please remember that the maximum speed of wireless N is 300mbps but you will NOT achieve this kind of speed in a wireless internet network.

Overall the 610N has a similar price tag and the same features including the SPI firewall, usb mass storage interface and the 4 gigabit ethernet ports.