I just bought an Almond. Cool product.
In my home network, I have a cable modem with wireless built in. It doesn't cover all the way to the other side of the house though. I have one of the wired ports on the cable modem run all the way to a room on the other side of the house. The wireless signal there is weak, so at first I wanted to use the Almond as a range extender. However, since I do have a wired connection back to the cable modem, would it be better (faster connection) to use the Almond as a router instead of a range extender?