Dgl-4500 - A High Performance Wireless Gaming Router For Gamers In Mind

By Author: Ki Grinsing
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Multiplayer gaming becomes a trend today for gamers in mind. Multiplayer gaming demands high performance network environment to provide a real gaming experience satisfactorily. There are ways you can play multiplayer games via computer networking: wired, wireless, or online gaming through internet. And the core device you need is a wireless router for the computer networking environment. DGL-4500 Xtreme N gaming router is a perfect solutions for your gaming experience.

What this Product Does

As mentioned above, gaming environment demands high performance, high speed both wired and wireless connection, low noise for wireless connection, Quality of Service, exposing host securely for online gaming, and secure wireless connection for local multiplayer gaming. DGL-4500 Xtreme N gaming router is a perfect solution for all the requirements you need for high performance multiplayer gaming experience. Why?

High Speed

DGL-4500 Xtreme N gaming router is powered by Gigabit LAN and WAN ports to get your game on faster lane than ever before. Gigabit WAN is a good advantage when your Cable ISP supports DOCSIS ...
... 3.0 Cable infrastructure which is 3 times faster than DOCSIS 2.0 infrastructure. The advantage of Gigabit LAN ports is apparent for high-speed wired connection.

DGL-4500 is powered by Xtreme N Duo wireless technology which combines the latest wireless technology: the wireless -n (draft 802.11n standards) and dual-band technology. As we know 802.11n is still draft version, but it is claimed to be the fastest wireless technology - the future of wireless technology you can taste today.

Dual-band technology offers you both 2.4 GHz and 5 GHz frequency bands to double your wireless available bandwidth. By utilizing 5 GHz frequency band for your gaming environment, your wireless connection is free from the signal interference of 2.4 GHz frequency band. We know that lots of wireless home appliances use this 2.4 GHz band that contributes to signal attenuator to your existing wireless network.

Quality of Services

DGL-4500 Xtreme N gaming router is embedded by Gamefuel Priority technology to allow you customize your network settings to prioritize game traffic. Common wireless routers which are not powered by the QoS priority engine, your friends from other computers on the network will hog your internet bandwidth when they are downloading high definition video from their favorite websites. With this QoS feature, your router is lag-free and jitter-free for better gaming experience.

DMZ or Port Forwarding

Generally some applications have problem working from behind the firewall or the router. Therefore you need to expose the host for gaming in the perimeter network or DMZ area while other computers are still protected behind the firewall or router. DGL-4500 Xtreme N gaming router supports DMZ and Port forwarding features to allow you expose a host in the internet. By only exposing one host in the internet, your internal network will not be affected and keep secured from the wild internet. Make sure to assign a static IP address to the exposed host instead of configuring it as DHCP client.

Other plus features of this router are USB port and Network activity display.

USB SharePort Technology

DGL-4500 D-Link Gaming Router is powered by SharePort technology to allow you connect a USB printer or storage device to your router and allow users to access them from anywhere on the network. Conveniently turn your existing USB printers and storage devices into network devices for everyone to share.

Network Activity Display

D-Link has the philosophy: You can never have too much information. That's why D-Link includes a Network Activity Display to show you what's going on with your router. From this screen, you can monitor what's going on your LAN, WAN, and other various settings. The other plus feature is the clock. With this clock you can see exactly how long you've spent playing the game and not taking out the trash. All of the features mentioned above are not the only features DGL-4500 D-Link Gaming Router can support. There are still many high-grade security features such as WPA/WPA2 wireless security encryption, dual-firewall features NAT and SPI, and also Virtual private network feature for secured remote tunneling via public network.

To enjoy the real gaming experience, DGL-4500 Xtreme N gaming router is the perfect solution for all the requirements you need for high performance gaming environment.

By Ki Grinsing

About the author:
Ki Grinsing was graduated from ITS Surabaya with the additions of MCSE and CCNA certifications. He has long years of working experience in IT. For a complete article, please visit DGL-4500 D Link Router and XBOX Wireless adapters