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.



Link: Bit Tech