D-Link Xtreme N Dual Band Wireless Gaming Router

awesome gaming router

Strengths: appearance, easy setup, blah, blah, blah

Weakness: haven't found one yet...

My husband and I both play xbox360 on-line. We had a belkin n wireless router and used to lag out A LOT and totally lose connection in the middle of games. Spent HOURS on the phone with xbox AND belkin and tried messing with IP addresses and all kinds of technical crap, only to make my "connection" WORSE... Long story short, I got this router and I haven't lagged out since and I always get host....
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My husband and I both play xbox360 on-line. We had a belkin n wireless router and used to lag out A LOT and totally lose connection in the middle of games. Spent HOURS on the phone with xbox AND belkin and tried messing with IP addresses and all kinds of technical crap, only to make my "connection" WORSE... Long story short, I got this router and I haven't lagged out since and I always get host. Aside from our xbox's we also have a couple wi-fi laptops logged on at the same time and it doesn't affect my game at all. ALOHA

By mistic8o8; - Nov 22, 2009

DGL-4500 Xtreme N Gaming Wireless Router delivers!!!

Strengths: alot of range with optimal signal ,great for my xbox live and ps3 network gaming

Weakness: maybe a bit pricey

overall a great router ,i highly recommend it for online gamers who need optimum wireless connnection.also a lil confusing to hook up because there are so many advanced features but super sweet once you set up

By RdogNY; - Jan 12, 2009

My first wireless router

Strengths: footprint, appearance, led screen trial of network magic and relatively stable

Weakness: Despite pairing with an 'N' band linksys extender my streamed videos sometimes pause. Transfer speeds can fluctuate and are only marginally able to transfer HD

Spent most of the day getting it linked but assume this due to my inexperience. Had to reinstall the software once. Included software is good but some $30 or so if you decide to keep. Tuning may fix problems with transfer speeds but my first attempts didn't help. Still, it works fine for regular
recorded media and I don't think there is anything better in price range for draft n.

By Pricedrop - Jan 30, 2008

Good router

Strengths: This router is step up from DGL-4300. It has better wireless singal than DGL-4300 and DIR-655. 4 Gigabit ports. Wireless N 2.0 Dual band. Easy to setup. Comes with screen.

Weakness: Wireless N is a draft so this is not final product. The screen on the router power off after 10-15 seconds of being on. Kinda dumb navigation through screen navigation, NEXT and OK option buttons.

Overall it is a good router and easy to use. As goes wireless N is in a draft mode and not a final product. This router is one of the few that uses 2.0 version of wireless N. So what does it mean? If you own a notebook with the wireless card in it, wireless n 1.0 allows connection of 130mbs and 2.0 will allow 300mbs. Though it is not a easy as it sounds. To establish wireless connection at 300mbs...
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Overall it is a good router and easy to use.

As goes wireless N is in a draft mode and not a final product. This router is one of the few that uses 2.0 version of wireless N. So what does it mean? If you own a notebook with the wireless card in it, wireless n 1.0 allows connection of 130mbs and 2.0 will allow 300mbs. Though it is not a easy as it sounds. To establish wireless connection at 300mbs router needs to switched to 5ghz mode and 40mhz option needs to be on. Drawback when router operates at 5ghz setting wireless operates only in A and N mode, so there won't be G connectivity. Also wireless N in 5ghz mode has reduced range compared to wireless N 2.4ghz.

This router has better wireless singal than dir655.

I used this router with firmware 1.02.

By marcin12 - Dec 12, 2007

Don't Understand the Fuss

Strengths: Easy Set-Up

Weakness: Expensive, no better signal than before

This was a disappointing purchase. The router is a very sleek-looking, attractive device. It was very easy to set-up, right out of the box. However, that's where the fun ended. I was able to get no better signal with this supposedly high end router than I had with my Belkin Pre-N Router, which I ultimately reinstalled. Since I had barely enough knowledge to be dangerous, I paid a tech geek to...
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This was a disappointing purchase. The router is a very sleek-looking, attractive device. It was very easy to set-up, right out of the box. However, that's where the fun ended. I was able to get no better signal with this supposedly high end router than I had with my Belkin Pre-N Router, which I ultimately reinstalled. Since I had barely enough knowledge to be dangerous, I paid a tech geek to come out and re-install to fix whatever I had done wrong. However, he left 2 hours later shaking his head and equally unsuccessful. It's back to Belkin for me.

By SusanBunch - Feb 3, 2008