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FreeBSD Based Gaming Router

Posted by timothy on from the special-purposes dept.

Zaphoid writes "Lan Game Reviews has posted an article on how to use an old computer and FreeBSD distro m0n0wall to create a gaming router. Gaming routers allow users to use their full bandwidth for downloads and other high bandwidth apps, and low latency applications at the same time. By keeping packet queues on the router side, rather than the modem side. Users are able to achive great pings in online games, while fully using their download bandwidth. This is a great alternitive to expensive gaming routers on the market today."

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  1. FreeBSD? by TripMaster+Monkey · · Score: 4, Funny


    Interesting, but I don't know how well this is going to work, given FreeBSD's crappy TCP-IP stack. ^_^

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  2. distro? by becauseiamgod · · Score: 2, Funny

    argh reading "FreeBSD distro" sounded so, so wrong to me.

  3. Re:Unlikely use of time and effort, better solutio by muzzmac · · Score: 2, Funny

    I'm a bone arsed lazy WRT54G owner. Can you show me where to get firmware to do this? :-)

  4. Re:didn't know that I had a gaming router by Shadowlore · · Score: 4, Funny

    for the diesel modem

    A diesel modem? Crap dude, that can't be very quiet nor "fresh smelling".

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