Performance One thing we found a little odd with the DGL is that by default the Gamefuel option is switched off, which more or less turns the DGL into an everyday router. It's simple enough to enable, either via the novice-friendly wizard or more advanced controls, which also let you set up specific rules for individual game titles, set yourself up as a virtual server and generally tweak the DGL's settings to get the perfect gaming balance.
Wireless home routers are very well developed technology, so it wasn't suprising to see the DGL performing well wirelessly, especially if you do have other D-Link XtremeG adaptors.
Gaming while doing other tasks, however, is where the DGL is meant to justify its extra dollars. Clearly there are other factors that can affect gaming performance that are out of your control, but from the home user side, the DGL certainly delivers, giving clearly lower latencies across network games on PC and console connections. It's a touch harder to judge on the console side, however, where clear latency can be felt in-game, but not easily quantified.
You can't get something for nothing, however, and by prioritising gaming packets, all other applications are likely to hit some speedbumps along the way. It'll largely depend on your particular networking situation as to whether this will be much of a problem. It's worth noting that if you're the only user of your wireless connection and can stand to not be downloading or otherwise using network resources you could easily get similar performance from any ordinary router, although it would take some careful configuration steps.
The beauty of the DGL is that it makes all that stuff easy to do, even for novices, and it's not often that you can use the word "easy" and "networking" in the same sentence, especially if you add "wireless" to the mix.
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