Just out of curiosity, what wireless router do you guys use and what have your experiences with them been like?
I have both a Dlink DGL-4300 gaming router and an older Linksys WRT54GS flashed with DD-WRT. The D-Link is noticeably faster, a lot faster actually, stable to the point where it almost never needs to be reset, and performs better under heavy load. I think that's largely thanks to its beefy (for a router) 250mhz multi-threaded CPU. The Gamerfuel thing is kind of a gimmick though. It's just a marketing term for QoS, which is really nothing special. It also has gigabit-ethernet, which you would probably only ever use for file transfers or LAN gaming with gigabit capable PCs. D-Link's service is godawful though, which I found out when a firmware update killed my router and I had to get an RMA. It's a great piece of hardware, but I would almost tell people to avoid Dlink just based on how horrid their service and support was for me. The Linksys seems to have better wireless range; and while the firmware on the D-Link is fairly good, DD-WRT blows it out of the water and gives you options typically only seen on enterprise-level stuff. The Linksys can get really flaky though and often needs to be reset, which is why I got the D-Link. Basically, I use the Dlink as my primary router because it's much faster, but keep the Linksys handy as a back-up.
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