I can’t think of the last time I fell in love with a piece of hardware so fast as I did the Belkin N1 Vision Wireless Gigabit Router (Model: F5D8232-4).

I saw it on the shelf at Best Buy while looking to replace my crappy old Netgear router, and after reading some of the literature I could not resist grabbing the only one they had to take it home and give it a try – despite the $200 price tag.

I picked it up for two primary reasons:

• The cool display on the outside of the router actually looked like it could be useful for seeing what is going on with the connectivity.
• The box claimed a freakishly long range, which I reasoned would be worth it if I could actually get coverage throughout my large house.

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