D-Link DGL-4500 Xtreme N Gaming Router Review

Installation

The administration panel is pretty flashy. Literally! At the top of every page, there’s a pulsing Flash banner with the GamerLounge and D-Link logo. The color scheme is pleasing to the eye, too.

Upon login, the user is presented with a long page containing various network address status items about the WAN, LAN, and wireless interfaces.


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The status section of the control panel contains more information. The wireless tab shows client information, the routing tab shows the router’s routing table, the logs tab displays…logs, and the statistics tab shows traffic statistics. The two sessions tabs-Internet and WISH-show active connection information.


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The basic tab permits the user to set up the Internet connection, wireless security, and wireless devices using an excellent wizard. It also permits the user to configure the WAN interface, wireless settings, LAN settings, and USB devices manually.


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The advanced tab enables the user to configure port forwarding, port triggering, quality of service for games and other applications, static routes, access controls and filters, firewall rules, and advances wireless and network settings.

A very interesting feature of the DGL-4500 is its WISH-Wireless Intelligent Stream Handling-protocol support. This protocol helps prioritize wireless traffic for streaming audio and video from the Internet, as well as on the LAN from Media Center PCs and consoles or other playback devices.


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