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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."
And as soon as your QOS tagged packets hit your ISP on the other side of your router the ISP will completely disregard them and you have done nothing but taken up your own router CPU cycles and insert QOS tags and into packets that can't use them in the first place....
D-link sucks. Wireless sucks. That thing is a rip off. I would never use wireless for gaming, good old 10 Mbit ethernet is faster and more reliable than that 108G bullsh*t. I doubt you could get better than 1 mbit with that thing through a wall.
Come one slashdot, you can do better than this. This reminds me of the marketing guys at my work. They don't care about real performance, as long as they can throw around some theoretical numbers that make it sound faster in order to make short term sales. What those morons don't think about is the long term damage that it does to the company.
These types of products hurt manufacturers, people become disenchanted with the companies products when they buy something that claims massive speed increases and doesn't do squat. But then at the same time, I'm sure a few thousand jack asses will buy this thing and bring over their freinds and brag about their gaming router and claim getter pings on UT2004 than ever before (becuase they never really payed atention before). Placebo is a powerful thing, but true nerds will always see thourgh the marketing hype.
I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand. -Confucius