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Western Digital's MyNet N900 is a delightful surprise from a vendor not known for making wireless routers with a nice, simple, easy-to-remember product name.

What if a router could make sure streaming movies and online games always get the bulk of your bandwidth, even if everyone else in your house is downloading a zillion porn movies? That's exactly what hard drive kingpin Western Digital claims to have done with its first router, the My Net N900 HD.

The Western Digital My Net N900 was about the easiest I’ve experienced, a refreshing turn of events that I was not expecting after having trouble installing a Western Digital external hard drive a few months ago. This time, the engineers at Western Digital must have been working overtime to assure...

Western Digital's first foray into networked devices is a good effort. owever, gamers and those looking for the highest performance should look toward such alternatives as the Netgear N900 or the Buffalo AirStation AC1300/N900 Gigabit Dual Band WZR-D1800H.

Western Digital’s well-designed user interface and its free software utilities make the My Net N900 a good consumer router. Its wireless performance, on the other hand, falls far short of the fastest router we tested, and it lacks the advanced features that you’d want.

Western Digital has brought some of its storage proficiencies and familiarity with the consumer storage market to bear with these new My Net devices, including a QoS service that prioritizes video streaming services.

With a retail price of $180, the Western Digital N900 may not be the most sensible purchase for households or small businesses that have no use for advanced QoS management, ultra-fast wireless speeds, and more than a half dozen Gigabit Ethernet ports. Any potential buyers that require extended...

The Western Digital My Net N900 HD is a great router, even with the $180 price tag. It's a quality piece of hardware with the pricetag to match, and it most certainly gets the job done as advertised and expected.

As a debut product for Western Digital, we have to give the My Net N900 high marks. The functionality and the GUI make this a perfect purchase for the beginner as well as the network engineer.

The My Net N900 is a solid first effort by Western Digital as it forges a path in the home consumer wireless networking market.

It's too bad that WD's entry into the consumer wireless router market is marred by a performance problem on the N900's 5 GHz side. It's otherwise not a bad first effort.