About us

RouterVerdict is about the boxes that decide how well everything else in a home works: the router in the hallway, the mesh units on each floor, the switch behind the desk, the access point on the ceiling and the modem the internet provider left behind. They are sold on numbers printed large on the box, and most of those numbers describe a lab, not a house.

We started in 2026 because shopping for networking gear means translating marketing. A "BE19000" router does not move 19,000 megabits to any single laptop, a coverage claim assumes no walls, and two switches with the same port count can differ in everything that matters once a camera or an access point needs power. We wanted every product on the same structured sheet, checked by a person against the manufacturer's own documentation, so the differences are visible side by side.

That is the whole site. Every figure comes from the maker's spec sheet or manual, and where the maker does not publish a figure we leave it empty instead of guessing. Each page explains what the numbers mean for an ordinary home, and every product carries a plain verdict on who it suits and who should look elsewhere. No brand pays for a position, and a page never claims testing we have not done.

What we cover

We compare access points, ethernet cables, mesh wi-fi systems, modems, network switches, range extenders, travel routers, wi-fi routers and wired gateways, and only those. Staying narrow is deliberate: every product in a category is described by the same structured set of specifications, so any two of them can be lined up side by side and measured on identical criteria.

The catalogue currently holds 3 published products, each with its full specification sheet, the latest prices from the retailers we track, and an editor’s note. Every head-to-head our visitors have built lives in the comparisons hub.

Where the data comes from

Specifications are taken from manufacturer spec sheets and official documentation, never from press coverage. Retailer listings, Amazon’s included, serve only as a cross-check of model numbers, availability and prices. New products enter the catalogue as unpublished drafts, and nothing goes live until a person has checked the numbers, filled the gaps a spec sheet leaves, and written an editor’s note saying, in plain words, where the product is good and where it quietly compromises. When a figure cannot be sourced, we leave it marked Unknown rather than guess. If you spot something wrong, tell us and we fix it.

The VS Score

At the heart of the site is the VS Score: a single 0–100 number that summarises how a product stacks up against its category. It is built from the same weighted methodology for every product, so scores are comparable across an entire category. You can even retune the weights to match what matters to you and watch the scores update live.

Independent by design

We make money from affiliate links: when you buy through a “View deal” button we may earn a commission, at no extra cost to you. That never changes a score or a ranking. Scores are computed from specifications alone, and commercial relationships have no input. You can read exactly how this works in our editorial guidelines.

Who we are

The site is run by two people, not a content farm. That is a deliberate limit: it is why we publish fewer products than the big aggregators, and why every one of them has been read by a human before it went live.

Have a product you would like RouterVerdict to add, or spotted something wrong? We would genuinely like to hear from you. Get in touch.