Lag Troubleshooting / Suggestions

[legacy-FViral]

I decided to start a new thread so members can post some ideas to help reduce or eliminate lagg some are having.


Most people are on a network, and if you're not I cannot help you. You'll probably have to call your ISP and configure your Xbox...whatever. I have made some images of my router setup, I hope it helps some of you.

Home Screen:
This is the first screen I see when I access my router. I don't mess with it too much, just turn it on automatic and it runs fine.

[image=http://img102.echo.cx/img102/7862/main9ru.jpg]

Don't mess with the subnet mask, and It's easier to keep the starting IP range at a solid number.

FireWall:
Most routers come with a built in firewall, these often cause problems and most people use a software firewall anyways so let's turn this off.

[image=http://img102.echo.cx/img102/704/firewall2av.jpg]

Painless.

Port Forwarding:
This is a big one, port forwarding saved my xbox from a trip down the stairs when Halo 2 came out, I hope it can save yuor xbox as well.

[image=http://img102.echo.cx/img102/5963/portforward2dw.jpg]

The green numbers need to be your Xbox's IP address, you can find this in the xbox menu under "networking".
Be sure that the first to are UDP and the last one is set to both UDP and TCP as this is the primary XBL port(s).

Administration:
Just enable some settings here, not quite sure what I'm doing but it's working!

[image=http://img102.echo.cx/img102/8893/admin2po.jpg]

Wireless:
If you're like me, your Xbox is wirelessly connected to your router, these are my settings. I don't recommend changing your SSID because you'll then have to change it for every wireless device in the house...ouch!

[image=http://img102.echo.cx/img102/1571/wireless0ov.jpg]

And that's it, IDK what else to tell you guys but I'm using the same disk you are and I don't have any lagg. GL and I hope this helps.

[legacy-Junias]

I would never advise people to disable firewalls. It’s *risky* and you’ll unlikely get any sort of performance gain.

Port forwarding allows for unsolicited network traffic from outside your network (which is required for peer-to-peer applications like XBL). If your router required manually configured port forwarding (i.e. your router’s NAT capability wasn’t fully featured enough), you’d know it since nothing would work.

In fact, this is what XBL says about it (http://www.xbox.com/en-GB/live/start/connect/faq/):

“Is it really necessary for the three ports mentioned in Troubleshooting (UDP 88, UDP 3074, and TCP 3074) to be opened for Xbox Live to work properly?

Most cable/DSL routers implement Network Address Translation (NAT), as does Windows Internet Connection Sharing (ICS). For NAT devices, no port forwarding is required for Xbox Live to work. Port forwarding is required only if you are running a proxy server or true firewall instead of or in addition to a NAT.”

[legacy-FViral]

It helped me when Halo 2 came out, idk why.

Router firewalls aren't *that* great and most people use a software firewall anyways.