Best Gaming Router

The1Fear · 01-24-2010, 08:32 AM

So Far The Best Gaming Router Review I Read is Guests cannot see links in the messages. Please register to forum by clicking here to see links..
Also I need A good Range Wireless and I have a budget of 230$ so Anyone Knows A better Gaming Router? or any other kind of routers.

Thank you

**Brian** · 01-25-2010, 12:08 AM

Quite frankly, i always prefer linksys routers, i haven't had any problems with them and their tech support is solid. Their interface is very well designed too , compared to others.

**TrigZu** · 01-25-2010, 01:10 AM

Yes, I rather like my Linksys router.

**ktiedt** · 01-28-2010, 04:46 AM

How about you state what features you are expecting from this "gaming router" -- Linksys is known to have bugs relating to NAT so if your ISP uses NAT for anything you're likely to run into problems... In regards to linksys I actually am required to run 3rd party firmware on one because its the only way to avoid the NAT bug in the native linksys code Sad

**Brian** · 01-28-2010, 12:14 PM

Modern Warfare 2 is a game that requires NAT to be completely open. In Florida where I have a linksys router, I tried playing and it worked fine, except on rare occasion the NAT type would switch to "strict" mode but a restart of the game fixes this.

**ktiedt** · 01-28-2010, 01:58 PM

Nothing to do with the games requirements, the bug in linksys code (it may or may not be fixed in newer routers -- but some of the WRT54G routers are no longer being updated by Linksys and the bug exists in the most current (final release) firmware from them) The bug actually causes your home network to be completely exposed to the internet (your ISP and potentially other people will be able to see exactly what you have connected and what its IP is where as normally ONLY your router should be visible) meaning your laptop or desktop would show up as being connected to your ISP's next router and cause connectivity issues between those computers and the internet

The1Fear · 02-02-2010, 04:32 PM

so I guess I should stick with d-link router and try it.

**ktiedt** · 02-02-2010, 07:42 PM

still dont see why pay extra money for a 'gaming' router when you can do the same stuff with a standard router (from most vendors)