tim_k
Buttons, Bows, Beamer, Shadow
Premium
join:2002-02-02
Stewartstown, PA | reply to Reverick
Re: Dump the router
It's been awhile since I played online games, but AFAIK, he shouldn't need to put his computer in the DMZ or forward ports if he is only playing games. He would need to do those things if he is hosting. |
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UncleDirtNap
join:2006-08-26
Pittsburgh, PA | Just an update; I resolved all the gaming issues with the purchase of a D-Lnk DGL-4100 router. Could have spent less I suppose but it had the gigabit switch I wanted for my lan. |
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Bad dog
@verizon.net
| I don't do gaming but I have VOIP and run Azureus Bitorrent client. I had VZ DSL and got the D-Link Gamer router a year ago because it had QOS (quality of service) which was needed for the VOIP internet phone. It knows to allocate all the bandwidth it needed to the VOIP session so it wouldn't be choppy or drop the calls. It was expensive but worth it. ($99 on sale at BB). I had also used it with P2P files sharing, (bitorrent). While the Actiontec also has QOS and works well with VOIP, Azureus would throttle down after a couple of hours. All web access would be very slow or stopped, even on the other 3 computers on the LAN. I put my D-Link router back on and it connected after 5 minutes or so with no configuring. I used the same port forwarding I had used when it was hooked up to DSL and that fixed the throttling problem. If you read the product info on D-Link's web site, it says it is specifically designed to work with P2P file sharing where you may have thousands of connections. It has a more powerful cpu to handle the demand. |
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