[Novalug] Is a gaming router really faster for downloading ; ZIPZ, Live CDs?
Ed T. Toton III
bones@necrobones.net
Tue Jan 9 15:58:32 EST 2007
Thus spake Matt Good:
> Based on what I've read gaming routers simply do packet shaping to make
> sure your gaming traffic gets higher priority than other network traffic
> so someone downloading a big file won't kill your ping. If you are
> playing a game this would actually slow down other network traffic, so
> downloading files would actually go slower.
I remember Jim talking about what he was doing with the gaming router
before. The one he was using was specifically a wireless bridge designed
to plug into a single device's nic. I think that's the feature he was
recommending.
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