Improve Your Home Gaming With D-Link Gaming Router

If you are into gaming on the web, the most important aspect of that is getting outstanding performance. Particularly from your network connection to the web which is the one thing that seems to cause the most problems with playing online games. So you go out and make sure that you have the fastest connection, fastest computer and a good router. But, even that may not be enough. So, what you need is a router which can look at the traffic and make some decisions about it. Then it can give priority to some and not others. That would give you faster gaming performance, which is exactly what you are looking for. Well, your gaming is going to get better with the D-Link Gaming Router.

The D-Link Gaming Router is available starting tomorrow at a number of online locations, including Amazon and NewEgg. So, what makes this router so special over others? They are including Qualcomm's StreamBoost technology which gives priority to selected Internet traffic over others. So, if you are playing an online game, that traffic is going to get priority for throughput over that for say your email. This means that you will get the best throughput for gaming with the D-Link Gaming Router.

With the D-Link Gaming Router you get 4 Gigabyte Ethernet connections and their Wireless AC1300 which has dual band speeds. They are up to 450 Mbps on 2.4GHz and 867 Mbps on 5.0GHz with the wireless being backward compatible with the "n" specification. This all sounds great, but the goal is performance when doing online gaming. So they are saying you will get traffic shaping which is a strange description for providing you with prioritizing your network traffic. This is all done with the StreamBoost engine they have included. This allows for traffic to be prioritize which you can do through their interface which lets you drag and drop items to determine their priority. All of this is going to greatly improve your gaming performance.

The new D-Link Gaming Router is available at Amazon for $199.99 and NewEgg for $199.99 along with many other online stores starting on August 1st.

Online News Viewers Surpasses Newspapers

Advertising for print media continues to slide as well

We have been seeing how newspapers have been declining in readership for many years. This pretty much goes for all print media as the quickly changing world of technology has been providing easier and better options for getting your news. With Yahoo and then Google, the idea of getting your news on a computer screen has shown the coming change. And while it took longer than I would have expected, the primary source for getting news has now changed from newspapers to online. And even more interesting is that online news has even surpassed that of news on the radio.

In the chart above from Statista.com, it shows how this trend has been changing over the past 6 years as online news has been steadily increasing. For printed news, it has been seeing a steady decline since the mid-1990s. And with the growing number of tablets in the market, this trend is going to continue to see changes. And the future for printed media is facing unprecedented challenges from the ability to get your news online instantly. And you do not have to wait for it to be printed and then delivered.

While this may be a change in readership, the bigger issue is revenue for printed media. As people move away from newspapers, it has a big impact on the ability to get revenue for newspaper owners. As readership declines, the amount they can charge for advertising is going to be strained. And advertising online continues to see increases that do not look like they are going to be slowing down at all. And it is not just the advertising for businesses that is making it tough for newspapers.

All of the advertising for selling cars, garage sales and jobs is seeing big shifts as well. And it is especially true in the area of job advertising. Over the past 20 years, the web has been providing more and more options in trying to find a job. And the listings for jobs in newspapers has been seeing significant declines. Online job sites have exploded over the past 10 years and there is nothing on the horizon which is going to change that.

Printed newspapers are going to continue to see declines over the next 5 years in readership. The future for newspapers is to make sure they are providing online news. And most are. But the bigger issue is how the generate revenue from that operation. While it is far cheaper online, the costs for printing and delivering printed news continue to increase. Online, there are no printing and delivery costs as with printed news.

Some online newspapers are attempting to employ paywalls to force people to pay for the privilege of reading their news. Others employ schemes of letting you read so many free each month before they attempt to charge you. Others just let you have the news free and hope to offset that with online advertising. The last option is the best way to go. When I hit a news site that wants to charge me, I just move on to another site to get the news. And I am not alone in that.

Printed news is at a point where changes to the operations are going to have to happen to insure their survival.