Wireless router that support iPad

Wireless router that support iPad

Wireless routers should theoretically work across the board for Windows, Apple and Linux clients. But there's some anecdotal evidence from readers and the blogosphere that a network consisting of all Apple products works best with an Apple route. It’s not entirely true really. Now, how to choose the best wireless router for iPad?

To answer how to choose the best wireless router for iPad, firstly you need to know the Wi-Fi adapter the iPad is embedded with and how well the adapter will work best for the iPad applications. Secondly, you need to choose the wireless router that supports the best performance for the iPad applications.

iPad is powered with wireless n technology and is compliant with 802.11 a/b/g/n wireless standards. It means that iPad is powered by dual-band technology. With the 802.11 a/b/g/n wireless technology the iPad supports, your wireless router must be able to support the 802.11 a/b/g/n technology. This means your router should support the same technology for optimum data throughput: wireless n dual-band technology.

iPad works well in streaming the video preview and downloading media when your Wi-Fi environment delivers high-performance network: high-speed, jitter-free video and lag-free gaming. To deliver high-performance network, your router should support the Quality of Service (QoS) prioritization engine technology. With QoS, the router can analyze and separate the traffic into multiple data streams and categorize them by sensitivity to delay. Applications like video streaming, VoIP and gaming are given priority over web browsing. The following are couple of the best wireless routers for iPad.

NETGEAR WNDR37AV wireless gigabit router is designed for high performance wireless network for streaming video and gaming.

WNDR37AV support the Video mode, wireless multimedia (WMM) based QoS to optimize HD video streaming without glitches, stutters, or lags. The router is powered by 680MHz powerful MIPS 32-bit processor which is powerful in delivering high-performance wireless environment. This makes the router to become one of the best wireless routers for iPad.

Other features, the router includes gigabit ports: 4 Gigabit ports for Ethernet LAN, one gigabit WAN port for connection to the modem, and one USB port with ReadyShare technology for storage access. The other benefit with this router is that WNDR37AV is compliant with DLNA media.

Apple AirPort Extreme Base StationProviding the wireless environment for iPad using the wireless router from the same vendor Apple is good for the compatibility. Even though iPad works well with wireless environment using high-performance wireless routers from different vendors, having the devices from the same vendor is better for technical support services.

AirPort Extreme is powered by the wireless n technology with dual-band technology. It can deliver the high-performance wireless environment to support up to 50 clients in sharing the internet connections and it also supports Mac OS X or Windows. The router also supports the QoS for better video streaming. Airport Extreme includes 3 gigabit Ethernet ports, one Gigabit WAN port, and one USB port. With USB port, you can add USB hub to allow you connect USB printer and USB storage for sharing.