| D-Link DGL-4300 Wireless 108G Gaming Router |
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Model: DGL-4300
Brand: D-Link
Manufacturer: D-Link Systems, Inc.
Average Rating: 
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Total Reviews: 105
Form factor: External
Hardware platform: PC
Data link protocol: Ethernet, Fast Ethernet, Gigabit Ethernet, IEEE 802.11b, IEEE 802.11g
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| Features: |
Optimized Gaming Experience with GameFuel Technology
Up to 108Mbps* 802.11g Wireless Connectivity
4 Gigabit Ethernet Ports
Customizable Settings for Games and Applications
High-performance CPU supports thousands of concurrent connections--ideal for P2P applications and multiplayer interactivity |
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| Description: |
| Enjoy playing games online? Push the limits of basic networking technology and experience the evolution in networking. Wirelessly share broadband Internet, boost network performance, stay competitive in your online games with D-Link's new cutting-edge GamerLounge Wireless 108G Gaming Router, powered by GameFuel Priority Technology. Enhanced wireless technology for optimal range and connectivity - up to 108Mbps - when used with comparable D-Link AirExtreme products High-Performance CPU to support thousands of concurrent connections - ideal for P2P applications and multiplayer interactivity Enables multi-tasking between other applications without degradation in game connection Pre-configured ports to accommodate up to 256 policies for games and applications Customizable settings to add or modify new applications or game configurations Firmware upgrade notification feature keeps your new D-Link Gaming Router up to date One Fast Ethernet 10/100 WAN port which supports virtually all broadband Internet connections Four Gigabit Ethernet 10/100/1000 auto-sensing LAN ports 5dB high-gain antenna for exceptional wireless signal coverage Fine-tuned web GUI enhancements for seamless device management Protect your wireless data with support for both Wi-Fi Protected Access (WPA) and 128-bit Wired Equivalent Privacy (WEP) Integrated Stateful Packet Inspection (SPI) firewall and Network Address Translation (NAT) firewall help protect against hackers, wardrivers, and other unauthorized users Create versatile Access Control policies to control network access based on time, date, websites, and/or applications Disable SSID Broadcast and MAC Filtering features protect against unauthorized access from your wireless network Supports Virtual Private Network (VPN) pass-through to create a secure connection to office networks |
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| User Reviews (105 total): |
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Fantastic Router!, January 13, 2007
By Jon M. Spratt
This is not only an amazing gaming router, but an all around stable wireless router as well. Both my wireless Linksys and Netgear adapters are connecting at 54 Mbps. Gaming on my XBOX 360 has improved drastically and is nearly lag-free.
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A real workhouse, January 9, 2007
By William A. Cardarelli (Warwick, RI United States)
This router is fast and extrememly reliable. Set-up is super easy, but if you call technical support don't expect to speak with a local representative, your call is routed oversees to India like many other companies today.
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Best Wireless Gaming Router, January 9, 2007
By Serrot
This is the best gaming router for xbox and xbox 360 live. the program P2P download fast, multimedia go fast whit 4-Port Gigabit Switch.
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Great router, January 3, 2007
By Wayne L. Boyer (Rapid City, SD USA)
I have had this router for a few months now. It works great. Handles alot and I mean alot of connections and does not slow down. I have had to reset it a total of three times since I bought it in August 2006. Those resets were for internet problems... I suspect my internet went down and that messed up the router.
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Thank God the last router I'll need for a LONG time!, December 10, 2006
By Gamer Granny (Southeast, Wisconsin USA)
We are avid online gamers at our house. Every day there are at least 3 people gaming or surfing the web at the same time. Downloading, streaming, uploading, vent server, you name it and its going on. We've put a lot of routers through their paces and none of them have been able to stand up to us. Several models of Belkin, Linksys, and Netgear have come and gone in our household. Some routers would last 6 months and most never more than a year. Once I was so sick and tired of buying new ones that I made everyone suffer with the one we had. My son was bugging me to try this router before it was even released. When it was finally out, I decided to try it but with the warning that if it didn't stand up to the test that this was it for a LONG LONG time!
Well I'm happy to report that the router has been up for over a year which is quite a feat. We have not had one single issue or complaint with it yet! I am beyond happy at not throwing money out the door left and right! I could kiss the president of D-Link! So if you are a gamer, feel very comfortable buying this router because you can not go wrong!
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Great Router for gamers, November 21, 2006
By Online gamer (Saint Petersburg, FL)
I purchased this router because having major issues with game lag. Nothing is worse than going head to head with another player and getting killed because your game is lagging. Since I've installed this router I've had zero lad issues. It's really amazing how much it's helped. One thing that was not expecting is the improvements that it's made to my Vonage service. Since I've installed this router I've had no more call fade and zero lose of connectivity. As far as what some of the other writers are saying about this being a complicated router........Not true at all. It was by far easier to install and setup that any other router. This one is well worth the money.
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Works as advertised, October 6, 2006
By L. Green (Mayfield Heights, OH USA)
I purchased this router in May 2006. I wanted to get familiar with the router before posting a review. Some of the negative responses I see regarding this router makes me wonder how long did the person actually had the router before reporting "it doesn't work as advertised" or "no
difference in performance".
Since I have purchased this router I have learned how to properly use it and I have to admit I am impressed. It does work as advertised if it is configured properly. For example, I think a common misconception is if you turn on Gamefuel your all set. That is not the case at least in my experience.
I have Gamefuel turned on but I still had to configure rules for XBox Live and Bittorrent clients. In a nutshell it appears you should create rules for certain apps and let Gamefuel handle everything in between your highest and lowest priority apps.
My clients include an XBox, 2 PC's (Linux and WinXP) and a print server.
Excellent product!
**Also if you have other wireless devices that use this router you should reboot them after you reboot the router! I have noticed my router gets flaky if the wireless clients are not rebooted after the router itself is rebooted.
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Router works well, Support is week, September 5, 2006
By If you want to know the truth, you must have the courage to accept it. (Newport, RI)
There are only a few more things I would like to see the router do, such as SSL or HTTPS or the admin interface.
Also I would love to see a router that let segment out the Wireless from the wired. But none that I have seen do that.
But other than that I like this router. I like the options to open just a few ports for one or two apps and open my whole system.
D-link support for 1st level is off in India some where and there fools. Lighting Strike took out my router and warranty covered it. But going the many level of hoops 1st level has you jump is not fun.
Always get a case number, some India tech will tell you, you won't need one as your phone number is your case number, They LIE! Your phone number is junk. Get a case number. If you don't get one then they never enter your info into the system.
Once I got to a D-link tech here in the US, they where great. It was just getting to one that sucked.
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A rock solid piece of networking gear, August 28, 2006
By S.O.T.A. (MN)
This thing runs flat out all the time, wired and wireless. It has an excellent amount of tweakability. Once you figure out what a lot of the options even do you'll feel like a networking pro. The quality of service (QoS) stuff actually works as advertised, it's amazing once you have everything configured to have this router so dynamically manage your bandwidth - it almost makes you feel like you have an unlimited net connection.
A few of the drawbacks include a lot of options, so there can be a little learning curve if you want to tweak, but the default options are secure and work well anyway. Some of the QoS settings are hard to understand (from this IP and port on my local subnet to this IP range and ports on this subnet over the internet, etc.) but it's dynamic setup does a decent job by itself. I found the ALGs (Application-Level Gateways) seem to cause more problems than good and so I unchecked all of them and added the port forwarding rules manually. In fact this router has three areas to set port forwards, but the 'Gaming' section is the most versitle and easy to use, so that's where you'll probably put in all your rules. The D-Link speedboost stuff only works with other D-Link speedboost gear, but so what, it does regular 54Mbp 802.11g beautifully - I've meseaured the range out to 200ft from the base station with good signal strengh.
If you want the best consumer-level home networking gear, this certainly fits the bill.
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Great product, August 18, 2006
By Samuel H. Dublinski (Tannersville, Pa.)
Took it out of the box, connected the cables and it worked. No software to install. Had a Linksys router and nothing but trouble, had to keep rebooting. D-Link is performing trouble free and again an extremely easy installation.
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Good Router, August 14, 2006
By Alan J. Parent
So Far this router has done every thing that it is suposed to, I can take my lap top any where in my house or on the porch with out any noticable difference between the online speeds hooked directly to the cable.
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Well worth the Money, August 9, 2006
By Chris C. King (Torrance, CA)
I just got this router and I am purely satisfied. After 10 stressful minutes of setup (probably my fault) I got her up and running. Now I play Counter-Strike, Battlefield 2 and many other FPS games. My network consists of two computers a laptop and a Nintendo DS Lite. My property is a small lot in Los Angeles with a two storied split level house. Since I installed the router, I could be anywhere in the house and have a good connection if it is the DS or the Laptop. Transferring files on the network is so much faster then my old Dlink 624. If you can save up, this baby is worth it.
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No more dropped connections!!!, July 24, 2006
By Scott Gibbons (Chicago)
I had originally bought a Linksys, without doing any research beforehand... thinking all routers were more or less equal... oops! Hardware was poor, the interface was wonky, customer service was a joke. I was re-booting it every few minutes under moderate usage, because it keep dropping my DSL connection or completely locking up. I just replaced it with a DGL-4300 based on all the positive reviews, and have been very happy so far. I don't need or use any of the advanced features for gaming; but already I've been very impressed with the DGL-4300 since it hasn't dropped any connections since I bought it last week. You get what you pay for.
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D-Link DGL-4300 Wireless Gaming Router, July 22, 2006
By Angel's Path (Georgia)
We have had this router for a little over a month now and so far it seems to be working pretty well. My husband and I are experienced computer people and gamers but we have had a few problems understanding the instructions and what settings we needed to use for our wireless network. We have 3 Tivos, 2 laptops, 2 desktops (all using 802.11b technology) and a printer on our network and had a few problems finding the right settings so all of them could access the router but with a little help from the friendly tech support people we were able to get most of the issues resolved. Accessing the printer through the network is still an issue. The biggest problem I see is the cost to replace the 802.11b network adapters for our networked computers and other wireless components. At approximately $75 a piece it will take a while to be able to get the full benefit of this router but since it is backwards compatible we are at least able to utilize enough of it's power to be satisfied with the performance. The blue lights are very bright and may be annoying to some people but we like the nice nightlight glow as we retreat from our media room each night.
All in all, as technology and router speeds progress it is worth the money to purchase this product with it's approved technology, if you are supporting a fairly large home wirless network.
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Programmable, July 17, 2006
By maineiac (Maine, USA)
I like this router because it's programmable, detailed information on exactly how to program evry little thing in it is a bit scarce. I was expecting it to noticably give my VoIP more bandwidth but since I have to plug the VoIP in front of the router I don't think it helps it at all. Overall, it's a good product.
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Best router I've bought, May 23, 2006
By Lantana Al (Lantana, TX USA)
I really like this router. It has a lot of features and appears to be a great performer. You can prioritize packet routing from certain IP address, which I used to prioritize the packets from my Vonage adapter. The router interface is the best I've seen. The gigabit switch is great.
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Works well - but no support for a Mac, May 2, 2006
By A happy snow thrower (Wayne, PA USA)
Packet Prioritization is VERY nice -- I can lower the priority of big downloads so they don't impact my normal network usage.
802.11 b/g Signal strength is fine.
WPA (personal) seems to work fine with Macs and with a buffalo wireless ethernet bridge. (PC's are all wired, but I assume it would work there too.) I never bothered to try the older WEP standard. Haven't tried WPA (enterprise).
Routing seems to be fine. (In particular, iTunes music sharing DOESN'T crash the router when crossing from wifi to wired--unlike on a number of other routers where it DOES crash the router.)
The web config tool seems pretty good (as long as you use a supported browser--see below)
Mac users note: it can only be configured from a PC -- or from a Mac if you install FireFox. It simply does not work with Safari. DLink was upfront about this on their packaging (they don't claim Mac support), but it sure would be nice if it worked with a Mac. The lack of functioning web config pages on Safari is the main reason it only gets 4 starts instead of 5.
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Good product poor support, April 27, 2006
By Warren B (Irvine, CA United States)
My experience is not as good as the majority of other reviewers. The product was difficult to install and the first rep was unhelpful. Once it became clear that he was not able to help with the problem, he hanged up... The second call was more successful albeit the critical help was provided from the DSL provider. The problem turned out to be that the DSL model already had router functions that had to be disabled. Now the router works well.
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Beats Netgear hands down, April 16, 2006
By FloridaGeek (Florida)
I bought this to replace my fairly new Netgear hardware. Netgear seems to have issues with their wireless routers requiring frequent reboots. I saw this behavior with mine. I was pleasently surprised with the performance of the DLink. It was easy to setup and customize (I'm a computer geek, so that may have helped), and the configs are easy to save.
The real surprise came when my Netgear 108mbps cards actually synced up at 108 with the DLink! I was prepared to replace my existing Netgear cards gradually, but that won't be necessary now! So far, this router has been rock solid.
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Stable and up to expectations, March 17, 2006
By Osvaldo Petrozzino
Very nice and stable Router. Gigabit switch a real plus!!
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