Guy Cocker, Global Editor-in-chief

Unlike my colleagues’ choices on the following pages, which are all pointless luxuries, the Amplifi HD is an absolute necessity for anyone who really cares about the Wi-fi in their home. It’s a mesh-based system, which means it uses multiple routers to blanket the house with fast, stable wireless signals. It’s not cheap, but Amplifi’s solution is slick and compact, and if you’re rich enough to own a mansion you can just keep adding routers as you go. The rest of us will just be happy to know that the system is easy to set up and manage thanks to the ios/android app. And the range includes two cheaper versions (from $199) that should suffice for smaller, less geek-heavy homes. US$349 (UK price tbc) / store.amplifi.com