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[bryants1]

Just wondering if anyone who runs more than one Xbox is having the same issue. My son and I try to game together on Modern Warfare 2. The issue is that one of us is usually the host and the one that is the host gets terrible lag, while the other plays lights-out. I've followed FurryNutz's sticky on setting up the router and when it's only one of us playing, it's AWESOME! Just can't seem to get it right when we both play in a party.

F/W: 1.22NA A1
ISP: Time/Warner
D/L: 20Mb (though speedtest.net usually shows higher)
U/L: 2Mb
Both Xboxes hard-wired
Both showing Open NAT

[FurryNutz]

make sure you don't use the Gaming section of the sticky. It was updated. It should work well with multiple xboxes connected. Are you gaming on XBL or just using system linking?

[bryants1]

Gaming section has been removed. I'm playing on Xbox live.

[FurryNutz]

THis is odd, have a buddy that had the same issue however he was using Gaming for his xbox and when he tried to connect after his other 2 were online, it could not sign into XBL. So we disabled the Gaming and now all is good. I believe he has since hosted games with his son however not sure though. They usually going mine or others. I haven't tried having him host and join his game yet. So far he's been very happy with his set up. He's also on A1 and FW v1.22NA

[bryants1]

Do you know of any way to configure the DGL-4500 so that neither one of us become host? Or maybe the two Xboxes do not communicate over the LAN, but have to goto the WAN to communicate?

I should mention that the XBox that has the Priority 1 on it is usually the host, while the other Xbox that has Priority 2 on it, is the one that typically has a terrific match.

[FurryNutz]

Lets try this disable GameFuel and see if xbox number 1 has any better gaming. They both should have great gaming and should not see any lag either way unless it's coming from the XBL servers or the ISP happens to be having technical difficulties. There is not way to configure the router for who is host. The router already does the work of telling what data packets to go where across the WAN and LAN, thats it's function. You can tell what hosts to use on xbox by just by either having someone else host the games or have the other xbox host the games online. The router can prioritize the data and message flow between each xbox connected to the internet so that one has higher priority than the other. I might try putting the 2nd xbox at a higher priority, say 10 or 255 and see what happens there. I checked with my buddy and his xboxes are set up 1,2, and 3. Let me know, I will be online later today if you want to connect up.

[philwoz98]

I am running two xbox's both using wireless with no problems. Did you set up any game rules with them ? Did you make sure UPnP is enabled? Also keep in mind you can only create one rule per xbox, so the other one you might have to put in the dmz (that's how I set mine up but it might be different for LAN connection.) My game-fuel priority is the same as yours.

[bryants1]

Just an update - I was tinkering yesterday with the MTU setting. Originally, it was 1500. I changed it to 1364. Made matters a LOT worse. Changed to 1492, better but still worse than it was originally. Set it back to 1500, and it was actually pretty decent. I was able to get in a good long evening of gaming with my son! Weird! Hopefully, I'll get similar results in the future. Thx everyone!

[FurryNutz]

Hope it works out, seems odd that your having lag issues and your son isn't if you host. However if everything is set up well it should work well for you. Just be aware that playing on XBL servers are going to introduce lag and crap from there side. I played for a while yesterday and saw many games were lag was present and eventually kicked us all out of the game and we had to start over. All we can do is make sure our side and our networks are clean and streamlined. Hope it works well, let us know how it goes. Have a great weekend.