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Blargus333
Member Posts: 7
in Hardware
Hello, I'm planning to buy a wireless router. The game I play is world of warcraft. I'm looking at the D-Link DGL-4300. I figured I would ask here first though before I made a purchase. Anybody play WoW with a wireless router, or perhaps other MMORPGs? Any recommendations? I don't want to spend more than $200. Thanks in advance.
Specs:
Windows XP home
Intel core 2 duo CPU E6750 @ 2.66GHZ (2 CPUs)
2048MBp RAM
My ISP is comcast
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I have that router and it works pretty well in my house. Good strong signal. No issues.
I've have best success using Linksys routers. Netgear and D-Link ones have been decent and Belkin's have been absolutely useless.
If you do much p2p activity you may want to look into a router that is supported by DD-WRT firmware (www.dd-wrt.com) as it opens up some settings that make p2p congestion have no impact on your network through QoS, max open port and open port timeout settings.
I still like the Linksys WRT54GL for $50 with the modded DD-WRT firmware but the WRT54GL is not nearly as sleek looking as the newer Linksys routers and doesn't support N. If you want something nicer looking and with N support I would suggest the $68 WRT160N (or $79 WRT160NL if you want to be able to hook an external HD/USB stick to it for media sharing/storage).
Yeah, I suggest going with the Linksys. You really don't need anything more than that. The thing is most "upgraded" or improved versions of routers you find is the fact that they just have improved firmware (the software that runs the router).
Buy the basic Linksys router... I think they vary in price but hover around $40, which is a great deal.
THEN, install Tomato firmware on it. Tomato is a 3rd party open source firmware that improves router performance and manages it much better. Essentially, you turn a $40 linksys into a $100 one with a simple change of firmware.
http://www.polarcloud.com/tomatoIf you check out special issue of PC Gamer on building your own custom gaming PC, you will find a small article on Tomato in it. PC Gamer highly suggested it as a cheap means for improving your router.