Ladies and gentlemen, let me introduce to you “the world’s most advanced wireless home router”, or so Netgear claims, the N900 dual-band router. And why is it so advance? Well, let’s just think of “almost” 1Gbps, over the air.

Netgear says the sleekly-designed $180 box which packs six antennas for an extended WiFi range is capable of speeds up to 900Mbps. That’s with both the 2.4GHz and 5GHz bands delivering data at a full 450Mbps. Sure, TRENDnet’s already called First! with its own 450Mbps concurrent dual-band device, but the real focus here is on the added extras.

In addition to the two USB ports — capable of 30% faster transfer rates — Netgear’s thrown in a suite of goodies, like its Genie network monitoring application, Live Parental Controls, printer sharing, video stream optimization, DLNA, gigabit wired ethernet, guest access, WPA and WPA2 security protocols, usage meter and, lastly, a shutoff timer. Clearly, this isn’t your ordinary wireless router, and that’s exactly the company’s point. Click on past the break for the official presser.