Your WiFi router is the gateway for all the data streaming into and out of your home via your internet service provider. Mesh routers are generally more expensive than singe-unit routers ...

It is also worth noting that when you subscribe to an internet connection from an ISP like Airtel or Jio, you typically get wireless routers with your connection (for which you do pay, too).

The U.S. is probing whether popular home internet routers sold by China’s TP-Link Technologies threaten national security and considering whether they should be banned, the Wall Street Journal ...

A major benefit of wireless mesh networks is path diversity, which provides many routes to the Internet in case one of the routers fails or its transmission path is temporarily blocked.