Ditto to Andy's comments.
Linksys is the preferred but D-Link and Netgear work well too.
Other issues you may run into with using wireless is signal strength. The farther away from the wireless router you are the worse the signal. This will degrad your through put (read speed). Most people will tell you that they work up to 150 ft away. This is not true. If you have unobstructed view to your wireless router you can usually be farther away but if there are obstructions then the distance decreases. Also it depends on what type of obstruction it is.
For example if you have a 2 story house and you Internet connection is in the basement and that is where you put your router then the top floor could be a little iffy on signal strength, 1st floor will be better and basement the best. But then you need to worry about what side of the house the router is. Again the farther you are away and the more obstructions in the way the worst the signal strength.
What are bad obstructions? In a house sheet metal is the worst, concrete is a strong second, plywood is next and then drywall.
So what do you do? Well when I have installed wireless routers in homes (which I have been doing for more years than I wish to admit), I look to see where the Internet connection is because usually the router will go right next to it. And then I ask the homeowners where they will want to use their wireless devices (phone, laptops, tablets, etc). If the house is a 2 story, I attempt to put the router in the first floor, this gives good coverage on all floors. If it is a ranch style house I usually put the router next to the Internet connection coming into the house.
Then I use a laptop or other device to measure the signal strength in the various places the homeowners want to use their devices. If there is enough strength, usually anything above 50% or half the number of bars, then leave the router where it is. If you do not get a good signal move around the room, this will usually give you a better signal in a part of the room. What is blocking the signal? Usually sheet metal in the wall. Was at one house and had to move the computer desk 2 feet down a wall and got excellent strength as compared to poor (excellent and poor are terms that Windows uses, not sure what Apple products use). Found out that there was a return duct in the wall that was covered up at sometime in the past.
Now that covers the house, what about outside? If you want to use your devices outside then the router really needs to be on the 1st floor, preferably as close to where you are going to use your devices as possible.
Wow that was longer than I expected it to be and there is one more thing that needs to be discussed - security.
Security. to make this post as short as I can I am going to cover this quickly, if anyone wants more info then PM me. Biggest things here is to do 3 things:
1) Change SSID to something other than what is there. It does not have to be complicated, just something other than the default. The default will usually help a person 'hack' your system by telling them what type of device you have.
2) Use a wireless security of some type. Most routers today use WAP or WAP2. This is fine. WEP will work if that is all you have. This needs to be something a little more complicated, it is a password of sorts. DO NOT forget it, you will need to enter it on all your devices that you want to use the wireless router.
3) Change the password on the router and again DO NOT forget it. Most routers have a default user name and password that is easily found out about on the Internet.
So by using the default SSID, which is displayed on any wireless device and not changing your default router password; it is very easy to hack a wireless router. BUT doing the 3 things above will go a LONG way to protect you.
One last thing - if you have done the 3 things above for security you will be as safe as you can get. In fact you are more likely to lose your credit card number at the local restaurant before losing it on your wireless setup.
HTH,
. As you can tell I don't know jack about this. 
