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Pages often load instantly, faster than I've ever seen. I'm totally happy with my DGL-4100. I followed the Quick Install Guide and was online right away. And all the instructions (including the ones that explain the extensive options after I log into the router) seems designed to be as user friendly and helpful as possible. All in all, a GREAT product.
This is a wired router, with no Wifi support. I signed up for [.]. The new D-Link GamerLounge router solved that problem for the lowest possible price. This solved my VoIP call quality problem. However, the router stay very cool in vertical position. I guess this router is called "GamerLounge" because network games require a low-latency network connection.
So the D-link is now doing Network Address Translation (NAT) and DHCP, and the Linksys only does the wireless connection. VoIP service but experienced bad call quality with my existing router (Linksys by Cisco WRT54G2 Wireless-G Broadband Router). Because my old Linksys wireless router was doing a good job for Wifi, I simply hooked it up to the D-Link router in "router" mode (rather than "gateway"). I'm not a gamer, but I appreciate the solid Quality of Service support (QoS), called "GameFuel". I can give priority to VoIP traffic, by assigning priority 1 to UDP traffic on ports 5060 and 5061. If you need a wireless router with QoS, take a look at D-Link DIR-655 Extreme N Wireless Router.Having it only for a week, I can't say much about durability.
The only disappointment with this product is that Amazon dropped the price just days after my purchase :-(
Very happy with this router, because for me the best router is one that you set up and it just does its thing in the background and doesn't require much fussing and fiddling. I used to think it was because of my DSL provider, but since I have gotten the new router, there have been no dropped connections.
I had a very specific problem that this router solved. I was previously using a Linksys BEFSX41 router (Linksys BEFSX41 EtherFast Cable/DSL Firewall Router (4-Port 10/100 Switch / VPN Endpoint)) I bought a few years ago.
I am very happy with this D-Link DGL-4100 wired router (D-Link 4-Port GamerLounge Broadband Gigabit Gaming Router). No big deal once or twice, but a bit of a pain to do it ritually so often.
I bought a second XBox 360 recently and discovered that I could not play XBox Live where both XBoxes were online at the same time and were playing the same game simultaneously (specifically, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2, one XBox would always indicate that it had a "Strict NAT" and one or both XBoxes would get unceremoniously kicked out of the game after a short play session). For my situation, this router solved that problem in an easy plug-and-play way without the need for any technical router configuration solutions, e.g, port forwarding or triggering, enable uPNP, DMZ an XBox, or any of the myriad (and unfortunately at times, conflicting) suggestions found on the Internet.Moreover, my old Linksys router would drop my internet connection sporadically all the time (once or twice every day or two) which required a process of unplugging and replugging the DSL modem and Linksys router to re-establish connection.
On another topic, FYI, although reliability is improved, I did not expect nor did I experience any improvement in connection speeds (unlike another reviewer), in my case, it is comparable to the old Linksys router (as measured by [.]./speedtest and CNet's bandwidth speed test). Hope this review was helpful.
This replaces a much older router and it showed me much greater speed on my network and to my cable modem. I just wished D-Link would add a blurb in the manuel for other non-Windows computers using a web browser to configure the router. Plus adding open ports and especially playing LAN games it made this router a no brainer. I am so glad to get this router and setting up is a breeze. Not everyone is network engineer and i bet the software included for Windows doesn't even work in Windows 7. Will someone please verify this please.
maybe my cat6 cables started to crap out in gigabit mode. Gotta be a cable issue, right.Nope - the router is crapped out - here's how I know.
Comcast issues again - right. So I had this old 10/100 D-Link broadband router/gateway (DI-604) D-Link Express EtherNetwork DI-604 - Router + 4-port switch - EN, Fast EN that I've been using since 2004.For no particular reason, I upgraded to this D-Link router to up my internal LAN bandwidth -The Web config gui certainly looks snazzier than the old DI-604, but I noticed that it's gui response is SLOWER.Second, the web connectivity also seems to be slower - or it takes longer to establish connection (Tho I can't speak for the bandwidth once connection is established).Then one day, my net connectivity starts to crap out Can't talk to gmail, nothing - youtube fails to come up.I was like whoa.
Wierd thing is that the internal ping to the router has like a 25% failure rate.Strange, right. So I look at the status window on the gui, and it says that the broadband is up.
So from firefox, I can talk to the router, but not to anything else.Bizarro.After powercycle/rebooting the cable modem, the router, check the cables, then finally my PC - still nada - firefox can connect to the web gui, but nothing else. I then re-connected my old DI-604 to the cable modem, and the PC to the DI604 and lo and behold, gmail comes back up, etc.So I was like maybe its a gigabit issue.
So I take out my trusty gigabit switch (also from DLink)., and put it in between the PC and Di604 - and still everything is hunky dory.So than I put the switch between the PC and the GamerLounge (and the GamerLounge to the cable modem) and I powercycle all the devices - Cable modem comes up, gamerlounge comes up, switch comes up, web conf comes up and says its connected to the outside world, but ping to the gamerlounge still craps out.All I know is that one minute the gamerlounge worked (if slowly), then the other minute it started to crap out.Oh - and DLink has crappy support, so I'm out of a hundred bucks almost and have a fancy paperweight with blinky lights for my trouble.Avoid like the plague.
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