New generations of high performance wireless routers today are mostly designed to support HD multimedia network in home, gaming and streaming.

Overview

Lots of new generation high performance wireless routers are specifically designed to support HD multimedia networking in homes. Generally, a high performance wireless router is designed in order to provide fast responsive gaming and high definition video streaming up to 1080p resolution.

What you require for your router to support fast responsive gaming and HD media streaming are solid connection and high speed. Wireless technology evolves very fast following the ratified 802.11n standard; high speed technology and longer distance coverage are the main features the best router for gaming and streaming should support.

What routers are best for gaming?

What exactly you need to consider in choosing a wireless router for gaming in order to provide the best performance?

Best wireless router for gaming and streaming should support the following features:

High speed

What do you need for fast responsive and smooth gaming? Speed, yes high speed connectivity either a wired or wireless. 100Mbps speed is sufficient for home network, especially gigabit Ethernet which the speed is 10x faster than standard fast Ethernet would be great. Almost all wireless routers now come with minimum 4x 10/100Mbps Ethernet ports for standard routers. And most of those in the high performance category routers feature 4x Gigabit Ethernet ports.

What about wireless connection? For streaming video, wireless router with 300Mbps speed is ideal for streaming up to 1280P smoothly with no-lag. Standard wireless N Router can reach the speeds of up to 450Mbps (ideally) with three spatial data streams.

Even fifth-generation of Wi-Fi technology (wireless 802.11ac) can provide speeds up to 1300Mbps (ideally). Many manufacturers have shipped wireless routers based on wireless ac such as Netgear, Linksys, Belkin and others.

Wireless router for gaming and streaming that work on the 5GHz frequency band is better than 2.4GHz band. If the wireless clients are mix of 2.4 and 5GHz bands, then choose router with simultaneous dual band to accommodate both bands simultaneously.

QoS

Wireless connections share bandwidth with all existing wireless clients in the network. Wireless connection could be used for real-time applications that require high bandwidth even get a portion of the narrow bandwidth than applications for downloading files or browsing. For that QoS functions to help you to give priority to applications that require high bandwidth.

Your wireless router for gaming should support Quality of Service (QoS) to prioritize time sensitive traffic including gaming, streaming and audio.

Port forwarding or DMZ

Port forwarding and also Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) is also essential for secure gaming when you should expose your computer into the wild internet

Best wireless routers for gaming

The following are few new generations of best wireless router for gaming and streaming by Netgear and Asus.

Netgear Wndr4500 N900 router

One of the best wireless routers for gaming is the new generation of Netgear wndr4500. This router is one of the flagships of the Netgear which gets positive responses from the user than other Netgear routers. The model is elegant combined with LED indicator display of interface ports, bands, USB ports and power indicator adding elegant appearance.

Main Features

Things that add to the performance of this router are several key features that make it the best router for gaming including the following:

• Simultaneous dual band with total bandwidth up to 450Mbps each band (N900 technology)
• Gigabit interfaces both LAN and WAN ports
• Ultimate wireless range ideal for large home
• Two USB ports with ReadyShare USB, ReadyShare printer and DLNA media server
• Easy setup for iPads®, PC, MAC computers, smart-phones & tablets without CD driver
• Power and wifi on-off buttons to help you save the energy
• Advanced security

Besides the main features of course there are some users who got an unpleasant experience with this product (which may unfortunate the devices get damaged due to several reasons) such as the internet connection is not reliable after working several hours, device failed after working for months, Things like that.

Click here for Wndr4500 spec details.

Asus RT-N56U Black Diamond

The Asus RT-N56U Black diamond is one of the best wireless routers for gaming, a new router form Asus which receives positive reviews from the customers with averagely nearly 5 star ratings for ease of use, speed & reliability and lots of features. Gigabit interfaces and advanced security features like others.

Asus RT-N56U Black Diamond is one of the best wireless routers for gaming. This is the first Asus router with dual band technology which obtain very good rating of 4.0 out of 5 stars. The successor of this router is the RT-N66U with N900 technology.

Main features

As one of the best router for gaming, this router is packed with the following key features such as:

• Powered by hardware based NAT acceleration engine as opposed to software based one
• Includes Al Radar for optimize and reliable wireless coverage
• Unlike the other gaming router, this router supports two USB port to let you share both printer and storage at the same time. this is ideal router for your network environment for “work and play”
• Built-in media server with DLNA compliant

This is the first dual band version of Asus wireless routers which receives very positive responses from the customer with averagely 4.2 overall customer ratings in Amazon

Cons:

• Unfortunately you cannot create guest network

Click here for manufacturer spec and description Asus RT-N56U.

Kedua router ini adalah unggulan sebagai router terbaik untuk gaming.

By Ki Grinsing