My setup in KL,

Neighbour's Streamyx
|
Linksys WRT-54G <-- Neighbour's)
| <--Wireless
My Desktop PC (Installed Kerio WinRoute FireWall to act as a router) so, PC/Router
| <--Wired
Aztech WiFi Router (DHCP Off, so i'm only using the Access Point for my housemates to connect to)
| <--Wired
Xbox360

NAT = never tested
Live Performance = Not bad, smooth gameplay with locals, sg and hk, but if there's foreigners from us or others, laggy..

My Setup in JB

4x 1.5Mbps SDSL
|
QNO FVR9416s 4WAN Load Balancer
|<-- Wired
D-Link DES1008 8Port Switch
|<-- Wireless From Office to Condo
Xbox360

NAT=Moderate
Performance=ask the guys in GRAW but if there are foreigners from hk or us, still lag but acceptable..

This post has been edited by ah_chak: Jun 18 2006, 09:12 AM

To be honest, their SDSL service is MUCH better than the usual RM88 package.. *touch wood* really really less problems. If there's any problem, give them a ring and they'll give priority to SDSL subscribers first. The downtime for me is more like zero as i'm running 4 of them on a load balancer, if one if them is down, i have 3 more for my clients to surf the net. They can take their sweet time to fix the problem as i have no worries for my clients. But usually the problems get fixed within 24 hours. what you pay is what you get.

string.. you're not alone at least la they offer 1mb up / 1mb down with static ip for like.. 250 - 300 per month? dynamic ip for 200 per month?

remember PJ's case?

my NAT is also on Moderate, i don't seem to have any problems with it, i guess it all comes down to your upload speed. I've been monitoring bandwidth usage for Live, and all of them doesn't go up to 20kB/s, either upload or download. I guess it's safe to say that minimum requirement for Live is 512k upload?

I'll monitor again tonight and see what's the result.

This is what happens when i'm hosting GRAW. This moment is when i'm starting the match. Doesn't seems to me that it's utilising that much tho.

Now that i've found out that using a load balancer to host is very good as different players connect to me using different WAN lines that i have.

You guys can see that different IP connects to me by different WAN line. The one that i've 'sprayed on' are the IPs of the ppl who are joining the game that i'm hosting.

EDIT: But don't know why leh.. these days i host, foreigners and locals keep on dropping

Btw, stringfellow, my NAT is Open now, i've set my Xbox on DMZ.

EDIT AGAIN: Ok, no difference with Open NAT for me, i host still alot of ppl drop out. And also alot of unknown IP addresses trying to make a connection into the xbox, using port 80! and other ports. So i removed the xbox out of the DMZ and forwarded ONLY UDP port 3074 and my NAT is Open as well. So guys.. DMZ is NOT SAFE. Don't know abot xbox but for PC, it's not safe at all. One of the IP addresses are from pr0n sites

This post has been edited by ah_chak: Jun 22 2006, 12:03 AM


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