India, April 16 -- It is 2025, and it is anything but obvious that routers have become part and parcel of our daily lives. Most people now have broadband connections at home, and this is where a router, especially a Wi-Fi router, plays an important role in distributing the internet connection for everyone in the vicinity to use, through its various Wi-Fi channels, whether 2.4GHz or 5GHz.

Simply put, a router is a networking device at its core. It acts as the central point for internet-based wireless communication in your space. It receives data from the internet service provider (ISP) via a modem, and then distributes it to all connected devices that request it, whether a smartphone, laptop, or gaming console, in either a wired or wirele...