Wireless Networking

DGL-4500 Xtreme N Gaming Router – a Perfect solution for all the requirements you need for gaming network environments.

Multiplayer gaming becomes a trend today for gamers in mind. Multiplayer gaming demands high performance network environment to provide a real gaming experience satisfactorily. There are ways you can play multiplayer games via computer networking: wired, wireless, or online gaming through internet. And the core device you need is a wireless router for the computer networking environment. DGL-4500 Xtreme N gaming router is a perfect solutions for your gaming experience. See also DGL-4300 the wireless –G version.

What this Product Does

As mentioned above, gaming environment demands high performance, high speed both wired and wireless connection, low noise for wireless connection, Quality of Service, exposing host securely for online gaming, and secure wireless connection for local multiplayer gaming. DGL-4500 Xtreme N gaming router is a perfect solution for all the requirements you need for high performance multiplayer gaming experience. Why?

High Speed

DGL-4500 Xtreme N gaming router is powered by Gigabit LAN and WAN ports to get your game on faster lane than ever before. Gigabit WAN is a good advantage when your Cable ISP supports DOCSIS 3.0 Cable infrastructure which is 3 times faster than DOCSIS 2.0 infrastructure. The advantage of Gigabit LAN ports is apparent for high-speed wired connection.

DGL-4500 is powered by Xtreme N Duo wireless technology which combines the latest wireless technology: the wireless –n (draft 802.11n standards) and dual-band technology. As we know 802.11n is still draft version, but it is claimed to be the fastest wireless technology – the future of wireless technology you can taste today.

Dual-band technology offers you both 2.4 GHz and 5 GHz frequency band to double your available bandwidth. By utilizing 5 GHz frequency band for your gaming environment, your wireless connection is free from the signal interference of 2.4 GHz frequency band. We know that lots of wireless home appliances use this 2.4 GHz band that contributes to signal attenuator.

Quality of Services

DGL-4500 Xtreme N gaming router is embedded by Gamefuel Priority technology to allow you customize your network settings to prioritize game traffic. Common wireless routers which are not powered by the QoS priority engine, your friends from other computers on the network will hog your internet bandwidth when they are downloading high definition video from their favorite websites. With this QoS feature, your router is lag-free and jitter-free for better gaming experience.

DMZ or Port Forwarding

Generally some applications have problem working from behind the firewall or the router. Therefore you need to expose the host for gaming purposes in the perimeter network or DMZ area while other computers are still protected behind the firewall or router.

DGL-4500 Xtreme N gaming router supports DMZ and Port forwarding features to allow you expose a host in the internet for gaming. By only exposing one host in the internet, your internal network will not be affected and keep secured. Make sure to assign a static IP address to the exposed host instead of configuring it as DHCP client. See also how to secure a wireless network in home.

Other plus features of this router are USB port and Network activity display.

SharePort Technology

DGL-4500 D-Link Gaming Router is powered by SharePort technology to allow you connect a USB printer or storage device to your router and allow users to access them from anywhere on the network. Conveniently turn your existing USB printers and storage devices into network devices for everyone to share.

Network Activity Display

D-Link has the philosophy: You can never have too much information. That’s why D-Link includes a Network Activity Display to show you what’s going on with your router. From this screen, you can monitor what’s going on your LAN, WAN, and other various settings. The other plus feature is the clock. With this clock you can see exactly how long you’ve spent playing the game and not taking out the trash.

All of the features mentioned above are not the only features DGL-4500 D-Link Gaming Router can support. There are still many high-grade security features such as WPA/WPA2 wireless security encryption, dual-firewall features NAT and SPI, and also Virtual private network feature for secured remote tunneling via public network.

Connection Diagram

The figure below shows configuration diagram of DGL-4500 gaming router.

Connect the WAN port to the Cable or DSL modem LAN port. You can install an XBOX wireless gaming adapter to connect your XBOX wirelessly to the network – no clutter of the wires in the comfort of your living room.

To enjoy the real gaming experience, DGL-4500 Xtreme N gaming router is the perfect solution for all the requirements you demand for high performance gaming environment.

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