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[kkluvsxbox]

I haven't really had any issues with my router except it seems that my xbox 360 isn't getting the optimal connection I know it can. I have a 20mb/s (I actually receive about an average of 15mb/s after having use the speed test at speedtest.net.) connection through brighthouse and that is the download speed. Basically I am a big gamer and I play quite often. When I play with my friends or anyone I never ever have a full green bar on Call Of Duty Modern Warfare 2 or Halo 3. My friend has a much slower download speed but gets a full green bar. Actually I have played several time when at least ten people have full connections and mine is the only one that isn't. Lets just say the amount of times I have played there MUST be a reason with my router to explain the lag I receive. Also my NAT is shown as open...

[Cobra]

Try a different mode if you do not need N.

[kkluvsxbox]

No I am wired I also have 3 computers running on the N. Btw these are not being used while I play.

[kkluvsxbox]

A different mode? Are you perhaps talking about the wireless connection?

[lotacus]

haha! sorry for the laugh. Listen, those green bars have nothing to do with your lan connection those green bars represent the ping time between you and the server your connected to. So your connection quality is going to be determined by the servers location, the amount of traffic using your internet connection, the amount of traffic on the server and how many and what routes that data takes to reach the server and back again. With the current populairty of the online gameplay of CODMW2 I can only speculate that their crummy servers are constantly at 100% cpu usage, the memory maxed out and their hard drives constantly grinding trying to keep up with the swap usage.

My room mate plays CODMW2 and almost always experiences lag and I can tell you it's not OUR connection. In short it's the server(s) hosting the game and what will be the brief popularity of the game. I am not going to turn this into a COD hate scenerio, so all I will say is that when people start to loose interest in the online play, you will notice your connection quality to the server will improve.

[kkluvsxbox]

I understand what the green bars mean sir. I don't think you understand that I have played a numerous amount of games and I haven't seen a full green bar. Obviously if one's connection is not good you will in fact see a yellow or red bar. My point is that I have a very good DL speed and I am hooked up by wire that should  mean that something with my router is preventing to have a full connection to the servers. I would bet your friend gets a full green bar quite often. But when you play for 5 hours every night straight and do not see ONE single full bar connection and everyone else gets them... There must be something in the router causing this.

[lotacus]

You misunderstood, he gets yellow bars all the time. I only know of one time where he was able to play for about an hour or so with no lag. Meanwhile I could play Battlefield BC 1 and 2 16 hours straight with no lag which supports my first statment which is actually a theory since I am not physically managing the servers.

What you could try if you felt up to it was when you want to go play COD or H3 instead, find the IP addresses used for the servers, head to your computer get to the CLI (command prompt) and issue the following command: ping -t (ip address of the server) and note the response time in ms. You can also do a tracert to the server ip addresses and notice how many hops (routers it goes through) it takes to reach it's destination. It would be interested to see what the responses are for the servers. I would actually do it myself but i'm not affected by those games because I don't play them...actually, i have very little to do tonight maybe I will do it myself out of courosity then I have knowledge I can use against one of the members of this household when he starts blaming something without getting the facts or evidence to prove it.

You could also see what traffic is in your household. The only time I experience lag is when one person is torrenting like its the apocalypse. Not saying that's your case, but heavy connections to the router can cause degredation in the network. You could also try going to QoS if you havn't already done so, and have your xbox take priority over all other ip addresses and try enabling dynamic fragmentation. You would want to make sure your xbox has a dhcp reservation so that it's ip address is maintained, otherwise keeping the QoS working they way it should becomes moot.

And as any Internet Service provider would do, take the router out of the equation and have the xbox connected directly to the modem at the times you experience the lag.

[kkluvsxbox]

First sir... loling @ your roommate sounds like me. I assume he blames you for his yellow bar. I do the same to my roommate. I pretty much never get a yellow bar. I seem to always be greenish yellow. I thought perhaps that me playing with my friend in Illinois and me in FL is causing us to connect to a server closer to my friends in IL. However when we play with people from all over they still seem to have a full green bar. I just don't understand how they all can get full green bars nearly 80% of the time and I don't. I will try this.

[davevt31]

Easiest way to check is to wire the XBox directly to you Internet and see how the connections are.  If the bars are the same then the router is having no effect on your games connection.

[powerplayj]

Have you tried pingtest.net to see if dropping packets is the issue?

[kkluvsxbox]

I got exactly what I am trying to describe. I actually have no packet loss however my connection is a B and it says it's good for every online application but games will not run optimally. That's exactly what I get while playing. I can't understand why I would get that when I have a 20mb/s connection and my friends have lower but I never get a excellent connection. However let me test the modem first.

[Cobra]

I get this.

[Krusher]

That's a smokin' ping test Cobra.  I thought mine was good!


kkluvsxbox, I'd have to agree with the others...it most likely is your ping to the servers and not the router, but bypassing the router will confirm it.  Depending on the game, I've played up to 200ms ping and it was still "OK".

[kkluvsxbox]

Okay I don't understand... So I first did a couple tests with my modem and it seems to show that I am in fact  getting slower speeds now according to speedtest.net.... Earlier I was at 14-18 mb/s and now I am getting 6mb/s-10mb/s . So I plugged my router back in and powered down and and powered up only to find the same 6-10 mb/s ... Confused I called Brighthouse and talked to support where I told him I understand that you don't always get 100% and he said you should at least receive 80%. I told him I don't get anywhere near 80%... So he had me shut Norton off yess Norton sucks but it came with my computer. Anyways he had me go to http://speedtest.tampabay.rr.com/ which shows me at about 32mb now... However i went back to the speedtest.net which shows me at 3!! I don't even know what to do now.

[Krusher]

Speedtest.net lets you test with several different servers.  Did you try others to see if the one that's closest to you is having problems?  I noticed here that the closest speedtest server is much slower than one in a big city farther away.