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CES 2013 Asus's Qube is the very first standalone Google TV 3.0 box, and it's packed with unique features.
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CES 2013 Asus's Qube is the very first standalone Google TV 3.0 box, and it's packed with unique features.

Despite all the advances of wireless 802.11n, walls and distance still conspire to kill your router's reception dead. Asus, like a knight of old, is here to rescue you like some long-haired damsel in distress.

A feature-rich router ably catering for the beginner and advanced user alike. Though that comes at a price.

The Asus USB-N53 dual-band 300Mbps wireless N adaptor performs very well, and goes some way to justify its higher than average price. Being dual-band, you get both 2.4GHz and 5GHz bands - as long as you have a capable router - and interference from other wireless signals is kept to a minimum.

A dual-band 802.11n Wireless-N router from Asus, the RT-N56U is designed to provide a complete Wireless-N networking extension to your existing wired network for both the standard 2.4GHz and newer 5GHz wireless ranges.

The popular media streamer gets updated with USB 3.0 compatibility

Wireless streaming comes to the Asus media player

The media streamer that plays everything - but is it any good?

This is the niftiest bit of networking kit we've seen in a long time. It's an all-singing all-dancing wireless wonder. In what's likely to be the most used mode, it's simply a wireless bridge, controlled via your browser, that takes ethernet connections.

When is a router not a router? When it's a Network Storage Server (NAS) as well! We've seen plenty of routers before and we've seen plenty of NAS devices, but this is the first time that we've seen the two technologies married