good router, BUT TURN GAME FUEL OFF!!!!!

Ive only had this router for a few hours, so this is subject to change.

anyways, ive gone through about 5 horrible routers in the past 2 years. some were hand me downs, some just sucked. after my brother destroyed the last one (which sucked btw) i figured we should splurge and buy this one. we play some games, but this one had some of the highest reviews out there. well it was a cinch to setup, took me about 30 seconds to do it, and wham, all was good. my brother started downloading a demo for a game, and holy moly the connection slowed to a crawl. like literally, i couldnt figure out why everything was going so insanely slow, even when you are downloading at max speed, sending and receiving packets for normal web browsing shouldnt be a problem, even with 3 people on at the same time. i got fed up and started searching the web to figure out why this thing is so damn slow. then it sort of dawned on me. they have this nifty feature called "game fuel" what it does is prioritize packet flow by giving priority to gaming and high bandwidth items first, and everything else second. but its a far second, like a far far far second, like it takes me 2-3 minutes to open up google.com second.

once i realized what that thing does, i decided to turn it off. how often do you play games? maybe an hour or 2 a week? and even then they run just fine, lag is never an issue. so i turned it off, and voila, what do you know, everything is back to working like it should. downloads are going fast, and i can surf at the same time.

it also seems very stable, and the connection doesnt seem to drop. thats good, since i work from home and do a LOT of web related stuff.

i recommend this router for everyone, but MAKE SURE to disable this game fuel thing, unless you plan on playing games exclusively on your network. anyone else who casually surfs will be utterly crushed by the speed degradation.

trust me on that.