D-Link GamerLounge Router

Post by **gämmö** » 07 Nov 2005 13:47

Read about it here:

http://games.dlink.com/products/?pid=371#

Get the best price for it here:

http://www.shopbot.com.au/p-16044.html

It's good for cable & ADSL. But some cable modems don't like been hooked up to a Gigabit port (Like mine one, it only likes 10/100Mbit ports), so this Router has a WAN port, to wich the cable modem connects to;

http://www.levitonvoicedata.com/support ... sp?tnID=16

Review of it here:

http://www.planetamd64.com/index.php?showtopic=13118+

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Mines in the mail.....

What sold me is the DEDICATED connection for the game with NO degradation on that connection regardless of what other App or hidden process decides to access the Internet and lag you out.. just as you're about to frag R@ge....

Post by **gämmö** » 09 Nov 2005 23:14

SCOOP!!!!!!!!

Bloody Dru was keeping this dirty little secret to himself!!!

It shows you the OPTIMUN way to set upa host of routers for a shitload of Applications, including...you guessed it.. UT4!!!!

Check this webpage out:>>

http://www.portforward.com/english/rout ... rindex.htm

That's a list of Routers they have optimizations for...

Next is the link for the Router I'm getting tomorrow:

http://www.portforward.com/english/rout ... 0index.htm

And the last link is on how to optimize UT4 for this router..

http://www.portforward.com/english/rout ... t_2004.htm

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I can't believe Dru kept this to himself for so long.. ffs...

::cheers2::

Post by **kAoS-aZZie** » 10 Nov 2005 17:45

k this sounds good from the little i seem to understand about what it does
but my router is not listed there!
anyway got from my isp so i check on their site then compare back

now have i got this right . . . this means that when u use it in gaming ur ports are devoted to only that/mainly that operation???

blonde, sorry :roll:

Post by **gämmö** » 10 Nov 2005 17:58

yes, it optimizes your gaming pipeline to the server and regardless of wat else access the internet or tries to access it, it continues to maximise bandwidth to your game, but limiting the rest of the processeessssss seeking bandwith from the network...

I NOW HAVE IT IN MY HANDS and in a few hours we will know if it indeed woirks or not....

Post by **gämmö** » 10 Nov 2005 17:58

yes, it optimizes your gaming pipeline to the server and regardless of wat else access the internet or tries to access it, it continues to maximise bandwidth to your game, but limiting the rest of the processeessssss seeking bandwith from the network...

I NOW HAVE IT IN MY HANDS and in a few hours we will know if it indeed woirks or not....

Post by **kAoS-aZZie** » 10 Nov 2005 18:34

wOOt

Post by **kAoS-Maian0** » 10 Nov 2005 19:02

Cool, my router is actually listed on there too...but im a bit hesitant to mess around with it cause its been set up by the comp technician at my dad's company so that my dad can connect to his company's intranet and work from home when he needs to...so messing around might screw something up, especially changing from dynamic to static ip.... =(

Post by **gämmö** » 10 Nov 2005 20:50

Well it was pretty easy to set up the Router using the default settings, and when i logged onto the server my ping was rock solid on 36 compared to the last few weeks of 60+.

BUT.. befgore OzFOrces changed providers my rewgular ping was 32. So as far as taht is concerned,, the sever is not doing well, but from that perspective.

If I was getting 60+ last few weeks and a LOT of packloss, then once the router was connected i was getting a solid 36 and NO packloss.

First impressions are very good, very, very good.... NOT amazing.. but remember the server is quite sick lately...

I'm going to tweak it a bit over the next few days, lez see how hard this baby rocks huh...

::cheers2::

Post by **kAoS-aZZie** » 11 Nov 2005 05:51

ok i gotta question . .

recently i changed to my independent isp from Telecom (my isp decided to take the loss with unbundled lines & do it anyway cos they support a large asian community here & gaming their 1st priority)
so i did notice some improvement in my ping to kAoS server

lately i been getting up to 50 ping variation ingame . . .
like it will fluctuate between 49 & 92 almost constantly

so, my question is . . if i shift to a static ip will that mean that i get a stable LOWER end ping all the time?

Post by **larz** » 11 Nov 2005 20:42

Nifty looking router Gammo.

I gather the Gamefuel thingo does some sort of QOS packet prioritisation to prevent insane ping increase when some other person or process makes an internet connection while you are playing a game.

There are numerous firmwares available for the popular Linksys WRT54G that do a similar thing and most new routers seem to incorporate this QOS feature.

I'm keen to know how this performs with VOIP and bittorent (if you use these). Ordinarily these services absolutely ruin any change of playing online while they are running.

Post by **kAoS-DIISKO** » 11 Nov 2005 22:58

Im guessisng you will need cable for this to work ie with a static ip coz with adsl you dont have a static ip unless u request one from your isp which will cost u extra per month.......?????

Post by **gämmö** » 12 Nov 2005 02:03

NAI!

The router sets up as a DHCP (or sum shit like that) server, thereby giving you the option of have a static ip...

=]

PS:

IT OWNS.. my pings are a consistent low 40's, were before I had high 80's....

there is NOT PACK LOSS wat-so-ever... NONE!!!

get one, dun hesitate just get one...

::cheers2::

Post by **ditto** » 12 Nov 2005 03:15

This router is the shit, man.

Post by **kAoS-sirro** » 21 Nov 2005 21:07

the dgl-4300 has been released........but at $350.......omfg

Post by **kAoS-sirro** » 02 Dec 2005 19:28

i just got the DGL-4300 today for $269........i will be seeing how good it is soon.......