D-Link's DGL-4300

[sjvlad]

My current router is finally going the say of the dodo and am looking for a nice wireless G replacement. I saw D-Link's gaming router at Fry's yesterday and wanted to know what people thought of it's fabled network gaming optimization.

http://games.dlink.com/products/?pid=370&#DGL-4300

It's received some really strong reviews, with people saying that it noticably increases performance on networks with multiple gaming computers or with computers that are uploading/downloading at the same time people are playing.

Just wants to see if anyone here had one of these and what their opinion of it was. Thanks!

 

[ImDonly1]

There is a thread about it in the Hot Deals forum. I do not have one, but many people claim it as being very stable. The GameFuel technology; however, is just marketing and you should not expect a huge difference in it.

You might want to consider the Dir-655, I think it is the same thing as the 4300 except it has draft-n. It costs $120 at Circuit City while the 4300 costs $99 at Outpost. You might be able to pricematch it for 110% or use a coupon for Circuit City to bring it down $10 dollars more.

 

[sjvlad]

Eh, have a couple laptops all with G, dont really feel like upgrading everything to draft-n standards.

 

[ImDonly1]

Wireless draft-n is compatible with b/g/ and pre-n I believe.

 

[JackMDS]

This is the current status of pre-N, http://www.ezlan.net/faq#MIMO

This Router as a Wireless is much better and less expensive, http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16833162134

Flashed with Free DD-WRT it can Do Qos as well, http://www.dd-wrt.com/wiki/index.php/Quality_of_Service