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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
Viperlair.com, after reviewing thier weblogs, recently decided Cisco may have been a better choice for their routers.
Mirrordot
>> $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."
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