D-Link DGL-4300 Wireless 108G Gaming Router by D-Link Systems, Inc.
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Digital camera reviews of D-Link DGL-4300 Wireless 108G Gaming Router
Digital camera Review: D-Link Router
Summary: 5 Stars
This router does everything it was advertised to I run two laptops and an X-Box and it performs flawlessly. It was easy to set up, even for a beginner like me.Digital camera Review: DGL-4300 Gamefuel Router
Summary: 5 Stars
I could not disagree more with the comments about turning off the Gamefuel option. Even if you are not a gamer, make a rule that places your browser and your movie downloads first and they will work better. We have seven computers, a Wii, and an XBox on line in our house. Two of the computers and the Wii are wireless, the rest hard wired. My wife and I play Everquest, our kids play World of Warcraft, Starcraft, Halo, and a whole bunch of other things. Since we installed this router our ping times have been lower, lag less, and disconnects have been entirely elliminated due to network lag. We are on AT&T DSL extreme with am 8m connection and even my download times improved with this router. We use PPPOE and have it set to keep the connection "always on" with a disconnect delay of Zero.
I found the wireless version for $20 less than the wired. ($99 new)
Digital camera Review: DGL4300 awesome but STILL REALLY EXPENSIVE for 2009
Summary: 5 Stars
It works exactly as advertised, prioritizes gaming, open networks for everything even p2ps apps. Torrents do hog bandwidth though causing LAG but that's just something you have to adjust yourself on your computer.
TOO EXPENSIVE...at 129.99 when its new model is 149.99.
Digital camera Review: Decent router with plenty of processing power
Summary: 5 Stars
Pros: Very powerful CPU, never hang up, gigabit ports, lots of parameters to play with
Cons: Expensive
I've tried many other routers including Netgear (wireless b/g), Linksys (b), Belkin (b). None of them work flawlessly. Most of them lose connections constantly, no matter wired or wireless. The netgears does not crash down, but they significantly slow down under load. A quick search on the web revealed that the cpu power of the router plays a critical role. For example, I heard that D-Link DGL604 can only handle up to 2000 connections simutaneously. It'll crash down if the load is too high.
Someone disassembled this gaming router and found it uses a Ubicom IP3023 processor which operates at 250MHz with eight-way hardware multithreading. This allows more connections when compared to other routers (most of them uses 160MHz-200MHz cpu to reduce cost, e.g. the Netgear g uses Broadcom BCM5352KPB chipset, which has a 200 MHz processor). Other components in this router include a Broadcom BCM5385 gigabit switch and an Atheros AR5004X mini-PCI wireless card.
With these positive points I decided to make this investment. Needless to say I was not disappointed. The speed significantly increased and the router never hang up since I set it up (~6 weeks). My suggestion: if you do intensive networking, go get this router. If you only do the internet surfing, a cheaper one will work equally well.
Digital camera Review: Didn't Work for Me
Summary: 1 Stars
After reading all of the good reviews, I bought this router to replace my linksys wrt54g. It worked ok at first, but I noticed that my connection speed varied all the time. My linksys gave me a constant 54mbps(when in decent range, of course), but this one always jumped around from 11 to 18 to 36, to 54, and then flaked up and down too much. I'm not a noob when it comes to networking, and just couldn't get this one to work as well as my linksys.
I also tried buying a high gain antenna (also from d-link), and it didn't help matters at all. I didn't look to see if I had the latest firmware, so I guess that could have been part of the problem. Regardless, I sent mine back to Amazon today. I had constant drops when I never had them before. (or at least not to this extent) Tried using it with the gamefuel option turned on and off. Didn't help. I also tried connecting it with and without my VOIP phone service, and got the same results.
I could have just had a defective one. Who knows? Others seem to be happy with it, but it just didn't work for me. For what it's worth, the blue lights on it can light up a room by themself.