Gaming router

any suggestions, im not looking to go wireless, im looking for a real good wired gaming router

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D-Link DGL-4100.

Reply to Madwand

I'd go with netgear, they have excellent connection stability and have a nice built in firewall, also ever consider powerline?
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Reply to I_Love_Tacos

For a few bucks more.....go for the DGL-4300 by D-link. Gives you wireless if you need it later....and the wireless can be turned off.

I worded for d-link technical support for over a year. There are alot of d-link products that really suck! But fortunately, the DGL-4300 really is awesome! I have one and it is great.

- 4 gigabit switch
- 5db antenna (Really improves wireless performance, 2db anntenna is the standard crap on all other routers out there)
- Gamefuel technology really works and is not a gimmick (Prioritizes game packets to decrease latency)

Reply to babybudha

that's true, all wireless routers can be hardwired too, I hardwired my computers up to a nice netgear 108mbps router, and leave the others wireless and get perfect 108mbps on the wireless, and still retain excellent on the wired too, you can always do wpa-ask encryption to make sure no one can abuse your network

Reply to I_Love_Tacos

I would stay away from EoP (Ethernet of power) It cause massive electrical distortion. It's one of the big reason there has not been alot of electric companies selling internet connections.

Reply to babybudha

but powerline have the stability of wired connections, with the advantages of wireless

Reply to I_Love_Tacos

I agree they work well, but they screw up every other wireless appliance bigtime. Way worse then a WiFI signal. Wireless telephones would tremdously suffer, and especially the radio. If even screws with satilite TV.

Reply to babybudha

that's why you don't make the rest wireless

Reply to I_Love_Tacos

We are getting off topic now. He doesn't even really care about the wireless part.

Even if the DGL-4300 (D-link) didn't have wireless, it still rocks!
You can get the DGL-4100, but for the $20, i would get the DGL-4300.

Reply to babybudha

I'd just get whatever's cheapest for wired that has a good firewall built in
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Reply to I_Love_Tacos

I disagree with getting the cheapest wired router! QoS is improtant, Configurability of firewall (All routers has the same firewall, it there configurability thats important), Gigabit switch for LAN parties! The list goes on!

Plus the amount of memory cache is important too! DGL-4300 and 4100 have 8mbs, standard crap has 2 at the most!

I've used Linksys, US robotics, and regular D-link DI-624. And my DGL-4300 is so much more reliable, stable and better performing then all of them. Plus the User Inferface is awesome. Tons of configurabiliy!

Reply to babybudha

I have used a couple of netgear routers, wired and wireless, and they have all pleased me, here's a netgear with a kvm switch that you really want
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Reply to I_Love_Tacos

Review

Review 2

Review 3

There are tons of positive reviews on the DGL-4300.

With this beast "Lag is no longer a excuse!"

On the first review, it rapes the netgear.

Reply to babybudha

yeah, but that thing is $116 according to the second review, compared to only $60 for netgear's 108mbps super g that I have which is amazing

Reply to I_Love_Tacos

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D-Link DGL-4100.

just a tip if you decide to go for the DGL-4300 and 4100 series..
stick with the B1 revision or laters
A1 and A3 are PLAGUED WITH ERRORS
and aproximately a 20% of them DO FAIL before garantee expires..
hell after heavy file sharing, they wont even last 3 days (mine died, as others did , just search around and you will find lots of angry people )

Reply to tamalero

so then the op should get a netgear

Reply to I_Love_Tacos

Any decent router that you get will be faster than your ISP's speed. What is needed is the QoS feature. How well QoS will work for you will also depend on your ISP, so you might ask them for some advice.

My 2p...

Reply to croc

whats the model number of the netgear super g?

Reply to slick8

wgt624, that's the model of mine anyway

Reply to I_Love_Tacos

is it really fast? i dont really need the wireless part of it right now, i just want something faster than my linksys befsr41, the net gear is like half the price, is it as fast as a d-4300?

Reply to slick8

Me personally I had too many problems with the routers just shutting off the connections usually while I was playing games. I had several different Linksys routers do it, a dell router, and a couple of others all had the same problem so I went with the ultimate router that will never die and can be configured to do anything you want it to do... a spare computer that I had laying around running Linux. It has a great firewall, its easy to configure and setup (assuming you have some linux experience) and just about any computer would work much better than any router that you can buy at the stores.

P.S. I do realize that this solution is not for everyone but in the end it seems to be the best. 2 years and counting without so much as a restart.

Reply to thexder1

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is it really fast? i dont really need the wireless part of it right now, i just want something faster than my linksys befsr41, the net gear is like half the price, is it as fast as a d-4300?

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check the Toms hardware router charts

Reply to tamalero

Don't gaming routers just basically have QoS and that is it, as in extra features?

~Ibrahim~

Reply to ikjadoon

I have an excellent netgear router that has never given me any problems, but an old computer with linux does beat all, but I'd rather not have two computers running side by side in my small room, or having 40 feet of Ethernet cabling lying around

Reply to I_Love_Tacos

No, some have better firewalls, some even come with antivirus devices bundled in as extra features, but essentially, that's about it

Reply to I_Love_Tacos

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Don't gaming routers just basically have QoS and that is it, as in extra features?

~Ibrahim~

well most have QOS but in the switch side ( the ports for the LAN )
while the DGL-4XXX series have the QOS in the WAN port ( for upload only )
apart from the QOS in the LAN side if I remember correctly.

Reply to tamalero

I have the D-Link DGL-4100 and it rocks. In addition to the QoS (gamefuel) it supports 1000 simultaneous connections which is great for P2P.

If you look at THG's router chart you'll see it's ranked highly. It's the same as the DGL-4300 minus the wireless.

Reply to hawkeye22

Trust me, get one of the DGL-4X00 series. Can't be beat. Even before I switched ISP's to a faster one, I saw SIGNIFICANT imporvements in internet-related performace.
And yes, you can switch off the wireless, so, for 20bucks more, get the 4300.
And, don't get Netgear. Ive had to work with them when getting people's networks set-up, and it sucks.
The DGL series have sooooo many options, but don't let that disuad you. They have a "simple" set-up, and then you can change the options if you want.

Reply to mcain591

only 40 feet....I have about 1500 feet run in the walls of my house. I also have 2 or more computers running side by side in more than one room of my house.

yeah I went a little overboard but it is nice to have

Reply to thexder1

Ya know....I have a perfectly nice LinkSys WRT54G and with a few firmware updates, and mods it's pretty good :twisted:

Reply to immagikman

it would be cool to have an ethernet port in every room, but Ican't do that at this point, so wireless is the way to go

Reply to I_Love_Tacos

I think modding isn't the best thing to do for someone with a simple wired router in mind

Reply to I_Love_Tacos

It is nice having an ethernet port in every room but I don't have enough ports on my switch to have them all active at the same time :cry:

I still would never buy a router my self but if I did for performance I would go with either netgear or d-link and for wireless capabilities I would probably stick with belkin or netgear.

Reply to thexder1

you could always just use a computer to control about 0 ethernet ports on an old linux server, but as I have been saying, netgear is one of the more stable brands out there

Reply to I_Love_Tacos

meh maybe if the computer stops running for some reason I would buy a netgear but I don't think that is going to happen any time soon because as I said before this computer has been running for about 2 years straight now with no problems and it was heavily used when it was setup in the first place.

Reply to thexder1

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Trust me, get one of the DGL-4X00 series. Can't be beat. Even before I switched ISP's to a faster one, I saw SIGNIFICANT imporvements in internet-related performace.
And yes, you can switch off the wireless, so, for 20bucks more, get the 4300.
And, don't get Netgear. Ive had to work with them when getting people's networks set-up, and it sucks.
The DGL series have sooooo many options, but don't let that disuad you. They have a "simple" set-up, and then you can change the options if you want.

well, I just hope if this guy decides to buy the DGL-4X00 series..
for him to check that the revision is higher than B1, anything before B1 = huge probability of getting a brick

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It is nice having an ethernet port in every room but I don't have enough ports on my switch to have them all active at the same time :cry:

I still would never buy a router my self but if I did for performance I would go with either netgear or d-link and for wireless capabilities I would probably stick with belkin or netgear.

you can always add another standalone switch or hub in cascade

Reply to tamalero

I already have 1 switch connecting 3 hubs and a bunch of computers. I need to get a couple of good switches. I was going to buy a couple of cisco 48 port switches but haven't had the money to buy them yet. I also considered a cisco router but to get one that does what I would want would be really expensive (several thousand dollars)

Reply to thexder1

Well, I've got an A2 revision, and it works fine. Ive had it for at least 8-9 months.
Besides, theyve been out for long enough, that revision problems won't be an issue.

Reply to mcain591

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I already have 1 switch connecting 3 hubs and a bunch of computers. I need to get a couple of good switches. I was going to buy a couple of cisco 48 port switches but haven't had the money to buy them yet. I also considered a cisco router but to get one that does what I would want would be really expensive (several thousand dollars)

3com is usually a bit cheaper than cisco and offers similar performance , so id say try 3com in the Switch ?

and not sure how many computers you have, but the DGL-4300 suposed to handle up to 128 heavy connections for up to 90Mbps from WAN to LAN troughtput.
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Well, I've got an A2 revision, and it works fine. Ive had it for at least 8-9 months.
Besides, theyve been out for long enough, that revision problems won't be an issue.

my A1 failed, and I've seen lots of A2 fail in diferent forums o_O
even A3's

the percentages are around 35% of A1's did fail in the first 3 months of use and less than 1 month when using heavy p2p.
A2's got reduced to 20-25%
A3 to 18%
B1 to less than 5% failure rates o_O

Reply to tamalero

Well, I've got all 4 wired ports filled; This (slightly aging gamingbeast): a piece of crap one: xbox360: C2D system:
plus 2 wireless clients; Heavy internet using laptop: Hp printer:

Reply to mcain591

DLINK SUX BAD!!!

I CANT GET HOLD OF THEIR TECH SUPPORT PPL FOR PROBLEMS!!

GET A BELKIN 4 port cable dsl router

I run mine with 4 accts on a mmorg, it installs so smooth....never had a prob with it.!

Reply to PC_Side_Line

I have thought about other brands and the cheapest that will do what I want is SMC which their prices are not too bad but still I ave not spent the money on it yet but will as soon as I am able to (which will probably be just before I move)

Reply to thexder1

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Ya know....I have a perfectly nice LinkSys WRT54G and with a few firmware updates, and mods it's pretty good :twisted:

Me, too! I'm using DD-WRT firmware, which is nice. Did you know you can overclock it?? I'm thinking of strapping a 80mm fan on it and seeing how high I can go, lmao!

I only got a new one because it added QoS and VOIP for free!

~Ibrahim~

Reply to ikjadoon

Trendnet routers are the best for overclocking. You don't have to add a fan, their passive heatsink does a very good job. My buddy had one, and I didn't even have to up the voltage to get another %50 increase in throughput.

Reply to babybudha

what? How do overclock a router?

Reply to I_Love_Tacos

you can't do it with Netgear routers......their crappy firmware doesn't allow for it.

Reply to babybudha

I'm still wondering how you can overclock a router, I'd really like to know, even though I have a netgear, I apologize for my newbness (wow, never thought I would ever being saying that again 8O )

Reply to I_Love_Tacos

........I'm just f*cking with you!

you can't :wink:

Reply to babybudha

ohh, good, damn you new comers and your confusingness But here's something that will make even overclocking a router seem possible it's so bizarre
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8O

Reply to I_Love_Tacos

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