Best Router for Gaming

Many gaming fans like to choose consoles for their video games. These work very well, but most people need computers for other uses too, such as surfing the web, sending and receiving emails, as well as parti[censored] ting in social networking sites. So they choose Pc video gaming in order to cover all their needs.

Although console gaming has grown considerably lately, there seems no end in sight for Pc gaming. Even in today鈥™s tight economic times, the Pc gaming industry is actually growing 鈥" slowly 鈥" but still growing!



If you are a pc gaming fan, games like 鈥楾he Elder Scrolls 鈥" V: Skyrim鈥™, 鈥楲.A.Noire鈥™, 鈥楤attlefield 3鈥™, and 鈥楧eus Ex: Human Revolution鈥™ are well-known to you. These are among the top ten voted most favourite video games for 2011.

So what do people who enjo[censored] playing these and many of the other great games have to say about the best router for gaming?

Are there significant differences between all the routers available? Let us build up an overview from some of the reviews online.

Traditional Ethernet connections, now available in 100Mbps technology are still regarded by many gamers as giving superior performance. For this reason, they are very likely to be around for a long time still.

Many serious gamers won鈥™t consider anything other than a good stable and secure cable connection.

On occasion there may heavy use made simultaneously, with a network for gaming, and slow performance of the individual Pcs can result. This can be overcome by the use of Ethernet switches, often preferred to a hub.

There can be no doubt of the convenience of wireless routers. They are burgeoning in po[censored] rity. The range of Wi-Fi signals can be estimated to extend as much as 30 meters (100 feet) you need to take into account obstructions, such as walls that can decrease this distance.

Most gamers tend to sit within nearer proximity than these limits, so this is seldom a problem.

Some gamers claim that wireless routers do have their own unique issues. It is claimed that interference from certain home gadgets, such as wireless telephones or microwave ovens can cause minor problems.

However, most agree that installation well away from these gadgets almost eliminates the problems they cause. These are also not considered to be the cause of continuous interference, but more of short sporadic irritations.

It is generally accepted that wireless routers are less secure than wired LANs. However this is most likely of less concern to gamers than to other people who use the internet for more confidential purposes.

So much for wired versus wireless. What are the preferences for different types of routers for gaming?

One of the red-hot favourite video games, L.A.Noire has been reported by various players as having glitches that affected consoles and Xboxes. But so far there seem to be few complaints about the game on Pcs.

The Elder Scrolls 鈥" V: Skyrim is undoubtedly one of the most po[censored] r video games at the moment. There are some gamers who complain of lagging as well as some graphic texture problems.

The Linksys E4200 dual band N router or an equivalent in speed and quality is considered to be your best bet to avoid lagging. However, if it persists, there are tweaks that can help. One such is a setting in Do[censored] ents/my games/skyrim/skyrimprefs.ini:

fLeafAnimDampenDistEnd=500.0000 and

fLeafAnimDampenDistStart=0.0000

There are several gamers who believe the solution to the texture problem can be found by downloading HQ texture packs from www.skyrimnexus.com.

Here are a few more, each one considered by enthusiastic gamers to be the best router for gaming:

Buffalo WZR-HP-G300NH

Netgear Rangemax wndr3700

D-link DIR-655 Xtreme N

Linksys WRT610N