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[EdwinDonald]

Hi,

Prior to 4500, I had an old L i n k S y s BEFW11S4. I've never had any problems with multiplaying games. But with the new 4500, when I move around in the game, it skips. It becomes jerky. It's not smooth at all. I spent the whole weekend trying to improve the game playing. It started when I replaced the 4500 last Friday.

I usually have the wireless turned off, which it is now in 4500. The current games I'm playing are COD4 and UT3. The 4500 settings are all defaults (it has been reset to defaults). Game Fuel is enabled by default. Currently, there's nothing much demanding on my network.

- Motorola SB4200 SURFboard Cable Modem - Earthlink ISP via Time Warner Cable in Raleigh, NC
- L i n k S y s Phone Adapter PAP2-NA
- Two PCs with gig Ethernet cards
- PS3
- CAT6 cables
- firmware is 1.02

I know the 4500 should be a lot better than my old router. It appears to be worse than the old one.

Is there anything I can do to improve it? Can you give me suggestions? Could the cable modem be the problem?
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[JoeScan]

First you need to definitely upgrade your Firmware to 1.23. Then look at the gaming sticky http://forums.dlink.com/index.php?topic=10435.0.

[FurryNutz]

I wouldn't updated to v1.23 until you review the gaming and gamefuel sticky first. I doubt is the FW right now. Let us know how it works. It works for me and others well.

What is your ISP service? DSL or Cable? If on DSL, have your ISP bridge the DSL modem to the router as most newer DSL modems have an internal router as well and thus effects how the connections are done. Cable doesn't have this problem. Let us know.

[LookIntoMyEyees]

I had issues like that when playing call of duty MW2 and cod world at war. Every time I would play it would skip a bit and lag. The way that I managed to fix this problem was by disabling Dynamic Fragmentation. If you wish to disable it, once you are in the router login page > login > navigate to advance > Gamefuel. You should see it there. I would recommend you do this and post back and let us now how it's been.

[JoeScan]

Try DMZ for whatever console you are using.

[Trikein]

Putting it in the DMZ removes it from all the rules and ability the DGL offers. Which is fine, if thats all that works, but you paid a extra 100$ for those features so...you may want to try to make it work outside the DMZ. Also, if the problem is with forwarding, DMZ won't help, since it still removes it from NAT control, by that very process NAT may not know how to direct some traffic to it.