Tired of your connection dropping during a gaming session with your kids? We all run into this common problem, but now you will finally know how to take control of the situation.

Solution: There can be quite a few reasons for this to happen, among them: too many game players, a crowded 2.5GHz band on your router, or even a router that isn’t optimized for game playing (or even media playback).

D-Link’s DGL-4500 is a router made for gaming.
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We’ve already mentioned two possible solutions above: Netgear’s WNHDEB111 networking kit or Linksys’s WGA600N. These happen to be gaming adapters that you add to your existing network. They don’t increase the overall speed of your network but they do facilitate communication between the adapters themselves which often lets you bypass the bottlenecks.

Then there are gaming routers — devices specifically designed for gamers — or at least there were. The advent of 802.11n routers, even in their current Draft 2.0 status, seems to have cured much of these gaming woes just by virtue of their faster speeds. D-Link still sells its GamerLounge Xtreme N Gaming Router DGL-4500, but Linksys appears to have discontinued itsWRT330N Wireless-N Gigabit Gaming Router (which isn’t even on its website any more.) If the kids are kicking and screaming and tossing furniture it might be time to jump on the 802.11n bandwagon or have the house wired for screaming, gametastic speed.