bit-tech News: Sitecom's WL-308 Wireless 300N XR Gigabit Gaming Router

news · December 1, 2008

Hi all,

We have just published a review of *Sitecom's WL-308 Wireless 300N XR

Gigabit Gaming Router* - if you could post a link on your site that

would be very much appreciated.

*Link:*

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*Quote:

*/It's all a bit frustrating really, as when we started testing we

really thought Sitecom was onto a winner here by combining all the high

end networking features we crave with a unique advantage of an inbuilt

traffic management system. Unfortunately, while the StreamEngine

technology does indeed work in managing the downsteam bandwidth and is

clearly a fantastic new technology with a lot of potential (and one

we'll be keeping close eyes on), it doesn't do enough to ensure playable

pings in online games when a connection's upload traffic gets busy,

which is a real shortcoming considering it is the router's unique

selling point..

As broadband technology has advanced, we've been given more and more

ludicrous download speeds become available (seriously, who needs 50MB of

downstream bandwidth?), while upload speeds have barely budged, and it's

always going to be in the upstream bandwidth where a connection,

especially a shared one, is going to be most congested.

While we admire Sitecom for bringing a feature like the StreamEngine

Technology to the market, a feature that here in the office we all agree

is long overdue in home networking gear, the end result just doesn't

work as well as we'd originally hoped. While it's still an extremely

capable router in its own right, at this stage we don't think the

StreamEngine Technology alone is worth the extra investment unless your

downstream bandwidth is getting heavily contested, or you're doing a lot

of downloading (and not uploading) while playing games./*

*Cheers guys!

Tim Smalley

www.bit-tech.net

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