X-Box 360 needs the following ports opened…
TCP 80
UDP 88
UDP 3074
TCP 3074
UDP 53
TCP 53
PS3 Needs…
TCP:
80
443
5223
UDP:
3478
3479
3658 should also be opened for voice chat.
There are still people who don’t do this?
I just put my 360 in the DMZ.
This is the huge majority. Like 90% of people do NOT forward shit once the wireless is online and working. A huge amount of people don’t even use passwords when using wireless.
Just to be sure I have a good connection when the PAL release hits, my 360 is hooked directly into the modem/router via Ethernet cable, do I still need to forward ports or does that count as a ‘direct connection’ to the modem?
In any event, I always make sure to have nothing else happening online when I’m playing, if someone else starts using a PC in the house for the net, I notice fairly quickly and usuallyplay offline until they are done.
If you really want to know how much your wireless setup affects your console<–>router connection and you are familiar with the ‘ping’ command you can do something like ‘ping -t -l 100 CONSOLE_IP’, let it run for an hour and get some statistics.
I don’t get why port forwarding has anything to do with quality of the connection. It simply allows more systems to connect to each other.
For improving the connection quality, if your router have QoS settings you can set it up so that UDP packets to the PS3/XBOX360 have higher priority over other stuff like bittorrent.
It depends on your hardware, but most likely what you’ll need to do is find out what IP your router has assigned to your XBOX (you can check on the 360 to find this) and then put that IP address in the DMZ section in the router config page. Alternatively you can forward the individual ports but it’s easier to just stick it in the DMZ and not worry about it again.
Mycah, what options do my parents have for way better speed than 5 MB DSL? Houston 77034.
77034 is in the SE, I used to live in 77061 - Not too far away.
Call Comcast, they also have a hub by Hobby Airport when I was living over there in 77061 my speed was much faster then what I was paying for.
Started off the Basic 6MB net (when it was still called Time Warner in this market) and I had speeds of 8MB on many a speed test
After they switched to Comcast - they upped the basic net to 8MB, No huge change in speed on my part really…
I upped it to 16MB right before Hurricane Ike and had speeds of 20MB on a regular according to speed tests and I was able to carry a #5 Blue Connection on soul Calibur IV (the game that was hot at the time)
Comcast has fucktarded Customer Service, pray that your shit never goes out - ever.
But the product is top tier.
For those that do not know what speeds their broadband connection speed is.
http://www.speedtest.net/result/555769714.png
This is my connection speeds.
http://www.speedtest.net/global.php
With this link you can see where countries rate on overall internet infrastruture. The US is fucking shit.
connection speed != connection quality or type. I used to get 20-40ping to chicago, columbus, nyc, and some parts of canada on 3mb cable.
now i’m on 18mb DSL, guess what? ping is almost double that lol.
It’s to do with the quality of cables running from the exchange into you home, then it depends on how old the cables are on your phone socket. Speed never equals quality of connection.
It also has to do with BACKBONE ROUTING - Depends on what path it’s taking in laymans terms some ISP’s take you the long bumpy scenic route - keep in mind DSL uses phones lines…how long have phones been in use? - Those cables can be pretty old hunh?
Cable has been in widespread use since the Late 70’s, “Digital Cable” is somewhat Fiber it just bottlenecks from the hub to your house.
I won’t get into all this (IMO Fiber > Cable > DSL) - just take my advice on what you can do to cut lag in not just KOF but ALL your Online Games.
^Indeed. If you are unfortunate like me to be on DSL then if you are serious about resolving connection issues you should first connect to the ‘master socket’ in your house and run tests from there. Alot of people find that their master socket has very little noise but the other sockets in the house are terrible. This would probably involve replacing all the wires.
I would say try your ISP tech support and ask what steps can be taken to improve on your end, but most companies I’ve delt with other than bethere (uk company) don’t know what they are talking about for the most part.
Edit: Here’s an example of what I was poorly trying to explain above. http://www.dslzoneuk.net/socket.php?type=html
http://www.speedtest.net/result/555955750.png
17.78Mb/s download
2.61 Mb/s upload
9 ping
I should be fine
Ping is how “far” you are from the server tested.
17 and 2 are what you need to look at, and yes YOU are fine…what about the other guy?
Also just cause you have a fast connection doesn’t mean it’s time to ignore all the other factors of a good connection.
Good god. Are you running FIOS?
Fios would destroy that speedwise.
Nope, good ol’ Comcast. :wonder:
This man speaks the truth.
Fiber > Cable > DSL
duly noted and will do :tup:
Actually I’d say good DSL is better then cable. Cable fluctuates on the speed so the more people on your hub or block, the less likely it is you will ever reach your maximum speed or even a stable constant high speed. DSL doesn’t have that little stumbling block so while it can be slower, it can also be a lot more stable.