[DEAD - OOS] Hot! D-Link DGL-4300 gigabit G wifi gaming router -- $50 shipped

[cheap]

here you go

I ordered one even though I have 2 other decent routers. Reviews say its QoS is tweaked really good for games. Normally about $120.

You can see the rest of their deals on their main site.

 

[flxnimprtmscl]

Damn, I just bought a Gigabit switch to add to my existing wireless router for $25 the other day. I could have just bought this. *sigh* Very sick deal.

 

[palswim]

We had one for a while, and it worked pretty well, though the QoS didn't address torrents very well (i.e. my roommates still had gaming lag when other people downloaded torrents). So, it worked nicely, but the reviews made it sound like the greatest thing since sliced bread. When it died (recently), I just bought a router on which I could load DD-WRT (this ASUS one) and I like it better.

 

[palswim]

Originally posted by: flxnimprtmscl
Damn, I just bought a Gigabit switch to add to my existing wireless router for $25 the other day. I could have just bought this. *sigh* Very sick deal.

I don't think you made a bad purchase at all. Even when I had this router, I still added a gigabit switch, although more for proximity's sake.

 

[konakona]

good price, but I wish it was DGL4500 instead for a bit more. here is a bit of relevant quote from dslreports:

The DGL-4100 and DGL-4300 use the Ubicom IP3023 CPU @ 250MHz.

The DIR-655 and DGL-4500 use the newer Ubicom IP5160 @ 275MHz. The IP5160 also adds hardware accelerated WPA2/AES decryption.

According to Ubicom, the IP5160 is 20-23% faster than the older IP3023. More information below:

»www.ubicom.com/pdfs/whitepapers/···P-12.pdf

At about $100, the DIR-655 is the best buy.

DIR-655 can be had for $80ish after live cash I think. This deal is still very tempting though, should be way better than those without the streamengine

We had one for a while, and it worked pretty well, though the QoS didn't address torrents very well (i.e. my roommates still had gaming lag when other people downloaded torrents). So, it worked nicely, but the reviews made it sound like the greatest thing s) since sliced bread. When it died (recently), I just bought a router on which I could load DD-WRT (this ASUS one) and like it better.

dunno, I have been googling quite a bit to upgrade my router and I have seen a few people who "upgraded" from DD_WRT (some linksys WRT54 family) and happy with the change. Maybe he didn't adjust the router settings much? I could be wrong though, I never had this router to play around with yet

 

[palswim]

Originally posted by: konakona

We had one for a while, and it worked pretty well, though the QoS didn't address torrents very well (i.e. my roommates still had gaming lag when other people downloaded torrents). So, it worked nicely, but the reviews made it sound like the greatest thing s) since sliced bread. When it died (recently), I just bought a router on which I could load DD-WRT (this ASUS one) and like it better.

dunno, I have been googling quite a bit to upgrade my router and I have seen a few people who "upgraded" from DD_WRT (some linksys WRT54 family) and happy with the change. Maybe he didn't adjust the router settings much? I could be wrong though, I never had this router to play around with yet

I did a lot of tweaking with the router, but never found a setting to work well with torrents. I chalked it up to the difficult nature of torrents (small transfers with many connections from many sources) versus the nature of other large file transfers (one big transfer from a single connection). Perhaps I never stumbled upon the correct solution.

 

[konakona]

Originally posted by: palswim

Originally posted by: konakona

We had one for a while, and it worked pretty well, though the QoS didn't address torrents very well (i.e. my roommates still had gaming lag when other people downloaded torrents). So, it worked nicely, but the reviews made it sound like the greatest thing s) since sliced bread. When it died (recently), I just bought a router on which I could load DD-WRT (this ASUS one) and like it better.

dunno, I have been googling quite a bit to upgrade my router and I have seen a few people who "upgraded" from DD_WRT (some linksys WRT54 family) and happy with the change. Maybe he didn't adjust the router settings much? I could be wrong though, I never had this router to play around with yet

I did a lot of tweaking with the router, but never found a setting to work well with torrents. I chalked it up to the difficult nature of torrents (small transfers with many connections from many sources) versus the nature of other large file transfers (one big transfer from a single connection). Perhaps I never stumbled upon the correct solution.

well in retrospect, I guess the results were a bit mixed - some did report issues with dropped pings and such (though mostly from earlier firmware). Most people seemed to be quite happy with the performance though, some even citing a drastic boost with this router. I guess I will just bite and see how things play out.

 

[bunnyfubbles]

Originally posted by: konakona

Originally posted by: palswim

Originally posted by: konakona

We had one for a while, and it worked pretty well, though the QoS didn't address torrents very well (i.e. my roommates still had gaming lag when other people downloaded torrents). So, it worked nicely, but the reviews made it sound like the greatest thing s) since sliced bread. When it died (recently), I just bought a router on which I could load DD-WRT (this ASUS one) and like it better.

dunno, I have been googling quite a bit to upgrade my router and I have seen a few people who "upgraded" from DD_WRT (some linksys WRT54 family) and happy with the change. Maybe he didn't adjust the router settings much? I could be wrong though, I never had this router to play around with yet

I did a lot of tweaking with the router, but never found a setting to work well with torrents. I chalked it up to the difficult nature of torrents (small transfers with many connections from many sources) versus the nature of other large file transfers (one big transfer from a single connection). Perhaps I never stumbled upon the correct solution.

well in retrospect, I guess the results were a bit mixed - some did report issues with dropped pings and such (though mostly from earlier firmware). Most people seemed to be quite happy with the performance though, some even citing a drastic boost with this router. I guess I will just bite and see how things play out.

I love my DGL-4300 and am seriously considering purchasing a 2nd one to give to my parents so that on the few occasions I'm over there I won't have to bring my own and swap out a cheap/crappy one they have.

Torrents have never given me a problem, however I'll also attack the problem on the software side by using uTorrent (best torrent client evar!) and setting it up properly for the internet service in question (setting up limits, schedules, max number of peer connections, etc...).

 

[IamNotAPinata]

does this router classify game packets properly for you guys? I'm noticing lag with this router when initating a download and upload on another computer and guild wars kind of lags a bit. I checked the router settings and the priority for the connection to guild wars was actually set to 255 which is lowest priority. How does this router know what connection to give priority and which ones to scale back??

Also flexibility in configuration just can't compare with tomato or dd-wrt so I switched back to my buffalo whr-g54s. With that I can always write a new L7-filter pattern to recognize new games. You can't do that with dgl-4300; if only it was dd-wrt/tomato compatible.

 

[cheap]

Originally posted by: IamNotAPinata
Also flexibility in configuration just can't compare with tomato or dd-wrt so I switched back to my buffalo whr-g54s. With that I can always write a new L7-filter pattern to recognize new games. You can't do that with dgl-4300; if only it was dd-wrt/tomato compatible.

I also currently run tomato on buffalo router and just can't get QoS to work properly with games. I always start to lag and my ping spikes when someone starts to load media heavy pages. But then again I'm not really good with these things, don't know scripts or anything and didn't take the time to research. So, hoping this one will work out of the box withoutme having to spend days learning scripts and all the ports for games and stuff.

 

[ss284]

I upgraded from dd-wrt on a broadcom based router to a dir-655 and it was a world of difference in gaming, torrenting, and general connection quality. People need to stop hailing dd-wrt as a miracle worker; its just custom firmware. It can't improve the hardware beyond what the hardware itself is capable of. The ubicom CPUs in these dlink routers are amazing. If you are torrenting, simply limit your upload and download to 75% of your connection max, and make sure the combined connections made to other clients are 75% of what your router is capable of. With these settings I've never had problems gaming and surfing while torrenting.

 

[bunnyfubbles]

Originally posted by: ss284
I upgraded from dd-wrt on a broadcom based router to a dir-655 and it was a world of difference in gaming, torrenting, and general connection quality. People need to stop hailing dd-wrt as a miracle worker; its just custom firmware. It can't improve the hardware beyond what the hardware itself is capable of. The ubicom CPUs in these dlink routers are amazing. If you are torrenting, simply limit your upload and download to 75% of your connection max, and make sure the combined connections made to other clients are 75% of what your router is capable of. With these settings I've never had problems gaming and surfing while torrenting.

I've had the same experiences, although I'd like to add that my cable modem would actually crap out when it came to handling a large number of connections before my router would.

 

[konakona]

damn, I spent too much time contemplating, now in a regret mode! congrats to those who scored on this awesome deal