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Feb 26 2010

Best Online Gaming Mbps

Best Online Gaming Mbps
Mario Kart: Double Dash (GC) Online with Xlink [12/27/09] (Video 1 of 4) 2 Races




Is my connection speed good for Xbox Live?

Hello. I wonder if my speed is good enough for Xbox Live .. I have a 360 and play online .. Only Game I have no problems with Halo 3 doesn't lag … but lags a lot in Team Fortress 2 and Rainbow Six Vegas. . i have a link of 1.8 Mbit / s to 2 Mbit / s … is it good enough .. What is the best speed I get can to stop the lagging on other games ..

IDK about Rainbow Six, but Team Fortress 2 is not on a hosted server EA. It's hosted by who has the space, so it is really laggy but yes your speed is good

Feb 18 2010

Online Gaming Addicts Help

Online Gaming Addicts Help
How To Get Some REAL Help For Your Gambling Addiction From Friends And Family




I am addicted to online games and it is affecting my studies!?

My "A level is, uh like a very important test at a university (96 days) Enter, and I'm still addicted to online games, what can I Do? Please help me … and please do not ask me to destroy the computer … thx

Smash the da …. oh fine. Tell yourself that if you get such and such a lot of work then On the computer for a limited time (use an egg timer to play). Good luck on your test! You can do it!

Jan 01 2010

South Korea Online Gaming Death

South Korea Online Gaming Death
KOREA Warrock Play video RED CLOVER DEATH MATCH




Death by online gaming? Really?

In South Korea, 10 people have sat so long in Internet cafés they died of blood clotting, and it was a gaming-related murder. Http: / / www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20081024.weinternet25/BNStory/specialComment /? page = rss & id = RTGAM.20081024.weinternet25 Seriously? I do not, they get up and pee or something? Does anyone agree with me about that this is absolutely ridiculous? Should not the stupid Internet cafes have time limits, or what? Michael: lols no, I'm not a gamer hehe deff

hahaha I just remember that an episode of South Park where Cartman half the people said in World of Warcraft were Koreans

Dec 04 2009

Online Gaming Dangers

Online Gaming Dangers
The Big Bang Theory – Penny addicted on online gaming




Who knows, a game u play as the animal is like a?

I want a game that uu are an animal and have to find mate and find food avoid danger etc andnif possible that the game player multply such as online

it is a game called Spore their CD-ROM and must Spore is a computer installed ur Game Sims made by the makers of u start AA-cell (or spore!) and develop an animal, where to look for food u need to make alies (or enemies), and find parts develop into a better species. u then Evolve to a tribe, a group where u types of command must, and continue their development, to explore the outer edges of the u space is to make believe a little, but it is actually quite funny and I enjoy it. It is a network where you can talk to other people to get during the game and advice I would definitely recommend it hope that helps

Dec 03 2009

Reader Rabbit

Reader Rabbit


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Reader Rabbit Learn To Read System Preschool 2nd Grade


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Reader Rabbit’s 2nd Grade – 5 User Lab Pack


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Christopher Radko


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Reader Rabbit 1st Grade (Reader Rabbit Giant Workbooks)


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2 New Reader Rabbit Reading Readiness Handheld Games


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White Rabbit; Psychedelic Reader; Leary, Beat Writers


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RABBITS SEARCH FOR A LITTLE HOUSE KWITZ WEEKLY READER


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Reader Rabbit - 1st and 2nd Grade - Win/Mac PC CD Roms


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Reader Rabbit - Learning Company  Commodore 64 Complete


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Reader Rabbit Learn to Read with Phonics Ages 3-6; NEW


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Reader Rabbit Personalized Preschool Homeschool NEW


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2009 Reader Rabbit Kindergarten 2 CDs+1 DVD


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Early Reader:Johnny And Jenny Rabbit (MN) HB 1st?(1926)


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Reader Rabbit 2nd Grade  (PC Games, 2000)


Reader Rabbit 2nd Grade (PC Games, 2000)


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READER RABBIT 1 Reading & Phonics PC/MAC CD Game *NEW*


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Reader Rabbit 2nd Grade Math Reading Art Ages 6-8; NEW


Reader Rabbit 2nd Grade Math Reading Art Ages 6-8; NEW


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Reader Rabbit: I Can Read! with Phonics PC or MAC


Reader Rabbit: I Can Read! with Phonics PC or MAC


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READER RABBIT KINDERGARTEN -BALLOON TOWN PC GAME


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(7) Childrens Learning Software Reader Rabbit Math


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Reader Rabbit Learning Set ~ Artist Not Provided ~


Reader Rabbit Learning Set ~ Artist Not Provided ~


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Reader Rabbit Learning Set ~ Artist Not Provided ~


Reader Rabbit Learning Set ~ Artist Not Provided ~


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Reader Rabbit Personalized 1st Grade


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Encore TLC Reader Rabbit Kindergarten Learning System


Encore TLC Reader Rabbit Kindergarten Learning System


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The Learning Company Reader Rabbit 2nd Grade + Workbook


The Learning Company Reader Rabbit 2nd Grade + Workbook


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Reader Rabbit Kindergarten Learning 2 CD-ROM Set Mac/PC


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Reader Rabbit Math Kindergarten-1St Grade


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READER RABBIT Learn to Read with PHONICS Pre-K Vista NE


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READER RABBIT Learn to Read with PHONICS Pre-K Vista NE


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Reader Rabbit Personalized Preschool


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Reader Rabbit Kindergarten Learning System 2009 PC NEW


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Learning Company - Reader Rabbit 1  Age 3-6 Apple Mac


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Reader Rabbit: Learn To Read System Preschool-2nd PC CD


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Reader Rabbit Learn to Read with Phonics 1st, 2nd Grade


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Reader Rabbit Personalized 1st Grade Deluxe


Reader Rabbit Personalized 1st Grade Deluxe


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READER RABBIT PERSONALIZED MATH AGES 4-6 COMPUTER CD


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Arthur's Math & Reading Dr. Seuss Reader Rabbit NEW BOX


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Reader Rabbit Personalized Kindergarten Deluxe


Reader Rabbit Personalized Kindergarten Deluxe


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Reader Rabbits PRESCHOOL WIN MAC *VG*


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READER RABBIT LEARN TO READ W/ PHONICS GR 1-2 SOFTWARE


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Reader Rabbit Personalized Reading Ages 6-9 Deluxe


Reader Rabbit Personalized Reading Ages 6-9 Deluxe


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Reader Rabbit WORDVILLE SOUP Kids 3-6 Reading DVD NEW


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Reader Rabbit WORDVILLE SOUP Kids 3-6 Reading DVD NEW


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Reader Rabbit Learning Set ~ Artist Not Provided ~


Reader Rabbit Learning Set ~ Artist Not Provided ~


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Reader Rabbit Learning Set ~ Artist Not Provided ~


Reader Rabbit Learning Set ~ Artist Not Provided ~


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READER RABBIT’S TODDLER CD-ROM LEARNING GAME


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READER RABBIT’S TODDLER CD-ROM LEARNING GAME


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Reader Rabbit - Wordville Soup (2005, DVD)~NEW~


Reader Rabbit – Wordville Soup (2005, DVD)~NEW~


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Reader Rabbit Early Reading Learning System     New Box


Reader Rabbit Early Reading Learning System New Box


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Duck! Rabbit!By Amy Krouse Rosenthal & Tom Lichtenheld


Duck! Rabbit!By Amy Krouse Rosenthal & Tom Lichtenheld




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Reader Rabbit Learn to Read with Phonics: 1st and 2rd Grade


Reader Rabbit Learn to Read with Phonics: 1st and 2rd Grade




The Tale of Peter Rabbit; Jack and the Beanstalk


The Tale of Peter Rabbit; Jack and the Beanstalk



Stories for children, with musical direction by Jim Timmens….


Education Through Music & Play Collection (3pk): Letters, Sounds & Words; a Child's Introduction to Musical Instruments; Reader Rabbit Sing-a-song Adventure W/words Onscreen!


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READER RABBIT SING-A-SONG ADVENTURES


READER RABBIT SING-A-SONG ADVENTURES


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Reader Rabbit Learning Set


Reader Rabbit Learning Set


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Reader Rabbit: Wordville Soup


Reader Rabbit: Wordville Soup


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Studio: Bci Eclipse Comp Llc Release Date: 01/11/2005…

Reader Rabbit: The Great Alphabet Race


Reader Rabbit: The Great Alphabet Race


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Reader Rabbit Preschool (Reader Rabbit Giant Workbooks)


Reader Rabbit Preschool (Reader Rabbit Giant Workbooks)


$11.54


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Help on analytical essay on the book/film Rabbit Proof fence?

I have to write an analytical essay on the book rabbit proof fence by Monday. I was wondering if i could get some pointers on what i should write about in the body paragraphs. My intro to me seems weak and i need to get the readers attention i think in a better way than i have it now. My thesis is about having to preserve cultural identity so i need some topics so i can write my body paragraphs. Basically i need so help on how to start my introduction and what topics i should talk about in my body paragraphs.

I did a similar essay on the topic of ethnic cleansing found in specific texts.

Just break it out into sections. Brief summary of the book and of your thesis. I used quotes from a literary theorist called Edward Said, but i think that might be a little advanced for your essay ?

Even so, you could try bringing in postcolonial theory and say how it works against preserving cultural identity.

I’m sorry if that doesn’t help, my essay writing skills are a little rusty.

Reader Rabbit voice over by me



Sep 28 2009

Online Gaming Bandwidth Benchmark

Online Gaming Bandwidth Benchmark
EVGA NVIDIA GeForce GTX 285 FTW Video Card



Recession Proofing Your It Department

With the economy gamely buffeting its way through continuing turbulence but UK Plc still struggling to maintain altitude and speed, the pressure’s on for everyone to not only fasten their seatbelts, but tighten them.  So the last thing anyone needs is engine problems.

For the IT manager this generally means taking on the daunting and unenviable task of trying to reduce costs whilst simultaneously ensuring their networks can still meet the evolving, increasingly demanding needs of the business. Ian Cummins, VP EMEA at Network Instruments, gives iQ a pre-flight check of some of the immediate and long-term measures you can take to make sure your department doesn’t crash and burn.

1.    Align IT and business goals
Managing IT costs is partly a technical issue and partly about personal relationships.

In the current cost-cutting fixated climate, it can be hard to avoid the knife even when your department is contributing positively to the company’s bottom line, let alone when it isn’t seen to be delivering tangible value.

If there’s a lack of understanding as to how the IT function contributes to a business’s revenues (as was the case for many organisations back early in the new millennium), chances are that they’re going to end up facing budget cuts. Although understanding has, in many cases, improved, CIOs can and should to take steps to minimise the chances of having their budgets slashed by:

i) Organising IT costs around services and processes that are visible to the business. Obvious but essential.

ii) Establishing strong relationships and clear communication with their CFOs, explaining the risks of postponing infrastructure investments or reducing services.

iii) Keeping annual revenue and growth targets in mind and determining what IT investments are necessary to achieve them.

2.    Prioritise
With just about every IT department now being asked to deliver more projects and services than can be paid for by the budget available, most no longer have any choice but to pick, choose and prioritise.

The problem being, of course, that not everyone realises this.

Accordingly, it’s up to IT to engage with the business to decide which projects take precedence and which have to join the back of the orderly queue forming outside your door.

Accordingly, it’s vital to not only determine which projects are necessities and which are “nice to haves”, but to go a step further and conduct preliminary, in-depth cost-benefit analyses of each to determine what value they offer in both the short and long term.

3.    Virtualise (seriously)

It may be in very real danger of developing into IT’s most repetitive and over-worked mantra, but virtualisation really ought to be a serious consideration for any business looking to shore up its service delivery capabilities as well as its costs.

Consolidating server and storage hardware will, by default, help encourage more efficient use of network resources, while the new virtualised infrastructure will reduce the need for physical machines, save money by reducing power consumption, shorten disaster recovery time, and accelerate and easy server and resource redundancy.

4.    Understand IT demand, supply, and behaviour

They say that you can’t know where you’re going if you don’t know where you’ve come from, and the same holds true for network management and capacity planning.  Unless you’ve an idea of what normal application behaviour has been in the past, it will be difficult to gauge what will constitute acceptable performance in the future or how the network will respond to new application rollouts.

Establishing benchmarks and understanding long-term network utilisation are key in the smooth and effective evolution of the infrastructure.. In addition to evaluating network performance, understanding network demand and behaviour is key to accurate long-term planning and handling new business requests.

5.    Police your perimeter

Eliminating or at the very least monitoring and controlling the use of unauthorised applications and devices on the network is quite simply vital for the business looking to control or rein in its costs. Left unchecked, rogue apps and devices can quickly eat up significant bandwidth and resources needed by other, business-critical end-points and can constitute a major security threat too.

Daily network monitoring and asset tracking will help your staff to quickly identify and isolate illicit applications and appliances.

6.    Manage your power consumption

Despite power usage having become a major issue for the modern IT department, surprisingly few IT directors can claim to have a real handle on how much power their infrastructures are consuming, much less on how they’re consuming it.

IT Wastage being one of the key considerations, management can boost both their green credentials and their bottom-lines with power-management appliances and applications such as PC power-management software, which will monitor a machine’s activities and power it down when it is not in use. Further savings can be achieved via appropriate policy implementation and management.

7.    Business Process Automation
With lay-offs high in both the headlines and on a hundred management agendas (and with IT department head-counts under particular scrutiny), process automation is an increasingly attractive option for many IT chiefs. Introducing, improving, or simply increasing your company’s utilisation of certain technologies – online audio and video conferencing technologies, self-service helpdesk utilities, automated customer care services – can help massively in this regard.

8.    Use Web 2.0… sparingly

While Web 2.0 is growing hugely in popularity and is certainly a powerful ally in
boosting productivity, it can also increase an organisation’s exposure to security and compliance threats.

Adopting and policing guidelines that appropriately police its use, and then educating users about the problems it can potentially cause maybe a hassle short term, but it will mitigate risk and costs in the longer term. It will also help minimise Web 2.0’s tax on your bandwidth, and the potential for security compromise and liability exposure.

Read more business and technology articles from Insight UK

Sep 23 2009

United States Online Gaming Legislation

United States Online Gaming Legislation
Dark Days for American Online Poker Ending?



Are Online Sportsbooks And Casinos Legal?

Internet casinos and sportsbooks have grown immensely in popularity over the past several years. From playing cards to betting on the Super Bowl to playing roulette, you can literally have Las Vegas in the comfort of your own home. However, is it legal to gamble online?

The answer is, yes and no. Currently, the law stipulates that online gambling is illegal, but given the fact that most online casinos continue to operate unfettered, it might seem that it is in fact legal to run an online betting or casino business.

What forms of gambling are available online? Well, you can play poker and other Card Games, you can bet on sports, or you can play games of chance, such as roulette, craps, etc.

Betting on sports seems like a perfectly legitimate form of online betting – the computer does not control who wins a pro Football Game. Games of chance should probably be prohibited. A computerized roulette wheel can easily be fixed, resulting in a few winning bets, but enough losing spins to insure the house wins.

So, of these activities, which ones are legal? According to the Wire Wager Act, betting on sports is the only form of online wagering that is illegal. The Wire Wager Act reads as follows:

“Whoever being engaged in the business of betting or wagering knowingly uses a wire communication facility for the transmission in interstate or foreign commerce of bets or wagers, or information assisting in the placement of bets or wagers on any sporting event or contest, or for the transmission of a wire communication which entitles the recipient to receive money or credit as a result of bets or wagers, or for information assisting in the placing of bets or wagers, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than two years or both.”

This means that it is illegal for American based internet companies to accept bets on sports or other “contests.” However, most online gambling enterprises have moved their operations offshore to countries in Central America and other countries around the world. It is common for most of these companies to be incorporated in places like Antigua or the Caribbean islands. PartyPoker, the most popular website for playing poker for money online, is licensed and regulated by the Government of Gibraltar.

Online sportsbooks, often run by Americans offshore, still accept bets from Americans, and this is where the problem arises. Americans are the biggest betters, and most of the income stream for online sports betting comes from American wagers. These companies usually provide wire instructions to the gamblers so that the player can wire money into a pre-funded betting account before they can begin wagering.

So, the question is, is it legal for an offshore company to run their business offshore but still accept bets from the United States, where online sports betting is technically illegal? Yes and no. Theoretically it is illegal, but it is very difficult to compel an online sports betting service to shut itself down if they operate under the laws of a foreign government where it is legal.

It is been very difficult for the Department of Justice to enforce the Wire Wager Act when it comes to offshore companies, and the offshore betting business continues to get bigger and bigger. In 1998, the sum total of all internet wagers was estimated at $600 million, and has grown by 10 or more times that between then and the year 2006.

The Wire Wager Act was upheld when the U.S. Supreme Court, during 2001 and 2002, refused to review the conviction of Jay Cohen, who had been running an internet sportsbook based in Antigua. And, even though the Department of Justice has said in recent years that that the Wire Wager Act also declares online casino games, not just sports betting, to be illegal, the Federal Appeals Court has ruled that that interpretation is not correct.

However, in July of 2006, everything changed. On a vote of 317-93, the U.S. House of Representatives voted to ban financial payments to offshore casinos as part of the The Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act of 2006 H.R. 4411. The legislation also compels banks and credit card companies to cut off payments to the estimated 2,300 gambling sites located outside of U.S. jurisdiction. This legislation bans all forms of internet gambling, including card games and sportsbetting.

Ultimately, the U.S. Government is just trying to protect betters from getting screwed by online casinos that accept bets over the internet but do not pay out when someone wins. However, it does not seem fair to allow major casinos that operate in Las Vegas and Atlantic City to have a monopoly on the betting industry.

Online casinos and sports betting over the internet should be permitted. The United States simply needs to implement a system whereby the online casino industry is regulated, making it mandatory for these companies to disclose the details of their operations and apply for a casino or sportsbook license.

Jul 19 2009

Online Gaming Casino Keno

Online Gaming Casino Keno
How to Play Keno Online – Desert Dollar Online Casino Keno




Where can I find the best online casino keno?

I just got from Vegas and played games of 1000 Keno must have. Believe it or not, I actually won! Where can I play keno online?

I was just surfing around the net earlier today and I found a good keno site that I bookmarked. I will now share with you, because it looks like you hope that the same thing I used to be for us to find. http://www.keno-rules-tips-strategy.com is the website. They have some nice info for keno pay table and there are several online casinos pay on the site with good keno tables defined. Good luck if you go play some Keno tonight! I will draw for you.

Jul 18 2009

Online Gaming Servers Uk

Online Gaming Servers Uk
Map Zero Secrets, Svencoop




Playstation 3 online servers.?

If I bought a ps3 game (lets say killzone 2) from the middle east (bahrain). Will I be able to play it online with other people around the world?

Because the copy came from UK.. so it means it’ll only display UK servers or what? I’m a little confused please someone help me.

Thanks in advance yall!

You can play killzone with anyone around the world. You just have to change your region to get assigned to the servers, which is done in-game.
In the beta for KZ2 I usually couldnt find many games that I wanted to play in the US region, so I could switch to europe or other places to find other games, I believe its the very same now. Also since the japanese release many of them have been joining our US games so ya you can be assured its region Free Online Gaming as well.

The only thing you need to worry about is if you purchase maps you must purchase it from the store for the region that the game belongs. Like since you said yours is from UK, you will have to buy its DLC from the UK store or it wont work.

Jul 16 2009

Online Gaming Router Problems

Online Gaming Router Problems
D-Link DGL-4100 Broadband Gigabit Gaming Router




Using a router while playing games online?

Does a router mess up or slow down online play??? I’m having alot of problems with it

If you use a router, you cutting the amount of connection you have. Say you want to play a online game as your brother or sister plays xbox live. both of you guys can play online with a router, but you will get half the connection you would have without the router. your sibling would also get a half connection with the router. although you can access online on more devices with a router, it slows you down with more outputs. hope this helps.