After spending more than 120 hours testing 30 routers, we think Netgear R7000P Nighthawk is still the Best Wireless Router for most people. It's faster and more reliable in the short and long range of almost all the routers we tested, it balances requests for devices that are automatically connected to avoid congestion, and unlike many other routers with that feature, it works well directly outside the box , with no need for mysterious tweaking.