"The Gaming Router represents the ultimate in home network speed and control, offering the ability to fine-tune bandwidth to deliver the high-performance hungry gamers crave, " said Daniel Kelley, associate vice president of marketing, D-Link Systems, Inc.

ENGADGET: D-Link's DGL-5500 802.11ac gaming router ships with Qualcomm's StreamBoost tech

In the world of the internet, operators are looking at ways of marrying up the algorithms that find the shortest path through a network and those that control the speed with which information flows.

ECONOMIST: Algorithms