Testing

To test the DGL-4300, we’re going to put great emphasis on the router’s GameFuel technology, and how it affects gaming performance. We’re going to be using Doom 3, Half-Life 2 DM, and Unreal Tournament 2004 for our tests. To test, we logged into a public game server and observed our ping. We played in each multiplayer server for five minutes or so to see if the server was stable, and when stable we started to run our tests.

For our download tests, I used my Mercury account on Fileshack to download the Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory Demo, which is approximately 500MB. Four our upload tests, I uploaded a 10MB file to my personal storage space at Comcast.net. I used a Shuttle SN95G5 PC to download and upload files while the ASUS SLI system was playing the tested games. Throughout our results I will note what speeds the uploads and downloads were transferring at on the SN95G5.



With GameFuel enabled, upload speeds were 8kb/s. With Gamefuel disabled, upload speeds were 40kb/s.


With Gamefuel enabled, download speeds were 295kb/s and upload speeds were 8kb/s. With Gamefuel disabled, download speeds were 350kb/s and upload speeds were 30kb/s.


With Gamefuel enabled, download speeds were at 220kb/s. With Gamefuel disabled, download speeds were at 520kb/s.



With GameFuel enabled, upload speeds were 8kb/s. With Gamefuel disabled, upload speeds were 40kb/s.


With GameFuel enabled, download speeds were at 215kb/s while upload speeds were at 7.5kb/s. With GameFuel disabled, download speeds were at 285kb/s and upload speeds were at 37kb/s.


With GameFuel enabled, download speeds were at 320kb/s. With GameFudel disabled, download speeds were at 485kb/s.



With GameFuel enabled, upload speeds were 7kb/s. With Gamefuel disabled, upload speeds were 39kb/s.


With GameFuel enabled, download speeds were at 225kb/s while upload speeds were at 7kb/s. With GameFuel disabled, download speeds were at 265kb/s and upload speeds were at 33kb/s.


With GameFuel enabled, download speeds were at 286kb/s. With GameFuel disabled, download speeds were at 490kb/s.