[LINK] Telstra “Game Optimiser” Snake Oil?

Scott Howard scott at doc.net.au
Thu Sep 24 15:01:49 AEST 2020


Not at all snake oil.  Many of the major router vendors have similar
products, such as Netgears "Pro Gaming" Nighthalk routers -
https://www.netgear.com/gaming/xr500/

Based on that article, it looks like the Telstra routers will run the same
OS as Netgear use, DumaOS from NetDuma - http://netduma.com/

  Scott


On Wed, Sep 23, 2020 at 4:06 PM Tom Worthington <Tom.Worthington at tomw.net.au>
wrote:

> According to Leigh Stark Telstra is planning to charge $10 a month for a
> “Game Optimiser” to "prioritise traffic to gaming devices". Will this
> really improve gaming?
> https://www.pickr.com.au/news/2020/telstra-starts-testing-game-optimiser-for-its-nbn-customers/
>
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