These days it is more and more common to use wireless networks in office environments. To see which products are available and how they compare, we examined the feature set on offer by 13 access points currently on the market, and of course tested them for performance.

Within the network technology segment, the professional market tend to be at the front while the lower priced and positioned (consumer)-models come later on. As such, the 10Gbit-switching slowly becomes more affordable for businesses and will eventually slowly drip down to the lower price range. Looking at our previous tests we can see that even on the 'lowly? gigabit switches features as PoE ? an expensive extra in the beginning ? are now also available on the lower priced models. The same applies to software functionality. Options such as a VPN set-up or port merging (lacp) and creation of vlans do not have to cost you the shirt. Nowadays you can set up a VPN server also on the high-end consumer routers.