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Router Built for Gamers
VL writes "Ping times suck? Too much lag? If your loved ones are hogging all your bandwidth with P2P and torrents, you'll want to check out the D-Link DGL-4300 Wireless 108G Gaming Router. This is a router designed for gamers that also happens to be a great router for regular folks."
Gaming routers come with a Firewallhack built in.
They are also decked out in l33t colours for the
gamers.
liqbase
"Okay, now you're a judge, how do you know when someone's guilty? Let's say.. let's have this scenario: You've got a guy there, nineteen year old, driving around in top of the range router with the lights and everything, leather seats, bitches in the front, bitches in the back, sitting on the woofer speakers, gold tooth, UV light underneath, big drum and bass coming out, the guy never done any work in his life. Is he a gamer or is he a dealer? considering he never touched any joystick or held a fire button ever in his life? Are you going to send this man down?"
This is a router designed for gamers that also happens to be a great router for regular folks.
:: Military-Grade : Civilian.
You're stating the obvious.
Gamer : Regular Folk
They are also decked out in l33t colours for the
gamers.
forget firewallhack. I think the colours are the entire strategy.
Screw you all! I'm off to the pub
Viperlair.com, after reviewing thier weblogs, recently decided Cisco may have been a better choice for their routers.
Mirrordot
That examines the gaming packets and makes them go faster using the same technology Lucy Ricardo used when she was working in the bonbon factory.
home theatre suckers who buy special $200 AC power cords for their receivers. The wire itself may look nice but even if it actually does some good what about all the potentially crappy wiring leading to and through their house? (Or in this case all the routers leading up to this one)
Chika Chik-ah... do-e ow ow.
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THe "FTA"? Federal Trade Administration? Fucking the article? Now that's got to be a new /. fetish.
>> $120? What makes this router so special?
ummm I'm thinking the extra $100 bucks is cuz its a 'GAMING' router. Good thing they didn't add the word 'INDUSTRIAL' or it would be an extra $2000...
Someone in marketing gets a bonus for this I bet...
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That is, just paying more money for something with a decal on it?
I could see them preloading it to know about and priortize some traffic (XBox Live, and a handful of the top PC titles), but I bet it's just the same old router with an X-Treme GamAr sticker and a 100 dollar higher price tag.
If you go to EB you'll see "XBox Lan Party" kits, with a simple 4 port 100mbit hub (not a switch) and a few patchcords, and they sell for upwards of 100 bucks.
Or an "XBox link cable" (read crossover cable) sells in the gamerz section of Best Buy for 40 bucks, whereas a regular x-over cable in the comp section will be about 10.
Go Go Gamer Rip-off!!
(I have an actual gaming router, linux based, that does prioritize xbox live, xbconnect, etc, and works great even when I'm bittorrenting the hell out of the connection).
I don't need no instructions to know how to rock!!!!
If your loved ones are hogging all your bandwidth... Unplug them! That's what I do when it's game time. "Sorry guys, the Internet is down again."
That is probably your problem, I have never seen a TCP/IP stack that works well for Windows 3.1
Nothing beats playing my favorite EA games over my SBC Yahoo! DSL connection using my D-Link DGL-4300 Wireless 108G Gaming Router with a cool, refreshing Pepsi in one hand, my Logitech mouse in the other, wearing my Nike clothes and blasting a ClearChannel affiliate, my source for great new hits from 50 Cent and A Simple Plan.
Whoops, I meant to post that as an article.
does it have a Hemi?
> Alchemy has been in beta for over 9 months.
And it *still* only turns lead into silver!
Chris Mattern
What a nice anecdote.
I have a DI-604 at home. It works perfectly.
I have a DI-604 at work. It works perfectly.
Consider your anecdote negated, and chalk one up for D-Link.
"It's like, some people only do things because they get paid, and I think that's just sad."
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"Outlook not so good." That magic 8-ball knows everything! I'll ask about Exchange Server next.
D-Link: Strong enough for a Tech, but made for a Gamer.
Come to think of it, some gamers could use some deodorant.
We have a cheaper solution for that. Our router tends to have problems with the buffer; especially filesharing apps with large upload/connection limits tend to cause overflows, which cause the router to go down, which causes someone to walk to the other end of the house to power-cycle it.
It's a simple deterrent scheme: Either you run filesharing with low upload and connection limits or you have to power-cycle the damn router every two-or-so hours. It works even better when the only people who are (constantly) running filesharing apps are also the only ones who'd ever play online...
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