D-Link DGL-4500 Extreme-N Selectable Dual-Band Gaming Router
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Manufacturer: D-LinkAudio: English (Original Language)
Format: CD-ROM
Platform: Windows
Model: DGL-4500
Color: Black
Product features:
- Nothing ruins a frag-fest faster than lag. GameFuel allows you to customize your network settings to prioritize game traffic
- You can never have too much information. That's why we've included a Network Activity Display to show you what's going on with your router.
- Playing by yourself can be fun, but getting online and fragging others is way better.
- Router also has the power of dualband (2.4 or 5GHz) wireless signals to get your game on in the wireless band of your choice.
- Push the limits of networking technology and experience the evolution of gigabit speed.
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Customer Review: GREAT ROUTER SO 4 Stars
Update: Aug 1 2009-Perfect after two months, no drops, no resets! Easy set up. Upgraded to 1.13 firmware to get usb printer port working fine. Firmware upgrade easy. Speeds 130-270MB/s depending on network card in other computers. 12.6mb/s downloads from Cablevision ISP, about twice my old router. Streams Netflix perfectly. Love it!!!I have only had this 4500 router for a few days but very satisfied so far. I bought it so we could download NETFLIX type movies to a new Samsung BluRay player BD-P1600. The Samsung wireless USB adapter WIS09ABGN would not fully connect to my old D-link 624 router.
Also since I have a 3300 square foot, two story house, I wanted a router with enough power to give good signal coverage.
Pros: Set up was easy, just connect the cables, type in 192.168.0.1 in your browser and the router management utility opens. I just set it up for basics manually from the router interface and had it going in less than 10 minutes. I have 2 Lenovo T61 laptops with Intel 811.a/g/n wireless and a desktop that I used with a new D-link DWA-140 USB adapter.
Using WPA PSK and with the settings of n/g and channel width at 20/40 I am getting data rates of 130 to the laptop and 270 to 300 to the D-link DWA-140 adapter. My unit, which I bought from NEWEGG is version A1 and I started with the 1.02 software. I am running on 2.4 GHZ.
There have been no drops at all and no problems so far. After two days I updated the firmware to 1.13 and installed the SharePort 1.14 application on my laptop so I could use the SharePort USB fuction of the router.
The firmware upgrade and the USB operation with an older EPSON 1280 printer went without a hitch. The Shareport utility is not so obvious as it will show the printer as waiting to use but you have to press the little green symbol on the lower right of your desktop to connect to get things working.
Streaming NETFLIX movies in HD works great with the Samsung adapter and there is no obvious lag, noise or jitter in the picture. The router says the adapter is running at a data rate of 108 most of the time and it is upstairs about 35 feet from the router
Signal strength downstairs is 100% and 90% upstairs. I can go about 50 feet out from the rear of my home and still get over 90%!
I did not upgrade the firmware to the latest 1.15 or 1.20 since there are many comments on the web about problems.
The display on the unit is handy for a quick check of something if you are there and don't want to walk back to your computer. And I guess lots of people would say it has bling!
The built in router wizard/setup software seems to work well and is straightforward. I have not done any advanced things. The thing comes up with GAMEFUEL turned on.
One laptop is still only connecting at g 54 rate so I have to look into that. There is info on the D-Link site that says some of the INTEL built in wireless thingies will not "bond" at 40 channel width and so that will limit transfers to 130 Mbps. Even with that I can see a significant improvement when I back up to my NAS.
The unit does not run hot as some seem to say on the web. The case temperature seems only slightly higher than the shelf it is on based on hand touch. A measurement with my little IR guns says the case is 84 degrees F. I have it mounted in the vertical position.
Cons: CDs-I could not get the D-Link CDs to run on two of my three computers. This is not a showstopper as the router has a built in wizard. I downloaded the DWA-140 driver to get it going on one laptop since the CD was not working.
D-Link Support...it is what it is. Got fast but not useful email responses. Regarding the CD problem, they told me to call tech support. On a question about firmware versions, they responding by asking me why I needed to go beyond 1.02!
And a NEWEGG con: Why are they shipping version A1 when A2 is supposedly out there? But at least A1 seems to work fine.
By the way, I am not a net expert and other than getting two other routers and half a dozen home computer/laptops running over the years I don't know anything special. My old D-link 624 router has worked for over 3 years without a hitch.
Overall for performance and ease of use etc I would rate the DGL-4500 at a 5 so far! Considering the CD problem and the quality of tech support I would call it a 4.
I will keep you posted if anything big comes up but so far I am very satisfied with this router and the DWA-140.
PS: I did have a senior moment when I first set it up. After getting it going I found that I could connect to the net ok but had only 33% signal upstairs and 50% down stairs. This was not good after spending $139. After checking things I realized I had not installed the 3 antennas on the unit.
Description of D-Link DGL-4500 Extreme-N Selectable Dual-Band Gaming Router
It's not everyday you come across a device designed solely with the gamer in mind. The D-Link Xtreme N Gaming Router (DGL-4500) is one of those few devices built especially for gamers. Experience the power of our Xtreme N Duo wireless technology for data transfer rates of up to 300Mbps* and Gigabit LAN and WAN Ports to get your game on faster than ever before. We've also added an updated version of our award-winning GameFuel technology to get your game going smoother. To top it off, we've thrown in a high-performance CPU and a Network Activity Display to give you a serious gaming router.Digital Cameras & Photo Categories
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