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[Italia18]

I have an old HP laptop upstairs. I want to have the laptop upstairs with a slowest connection possible (I don't care even when I'm using it), so that when my family is using my laptop, I don't want to experience any performance issues when gaming on the Xbox 360. The laptop has a Broadcom 802.11 b/g WLAN adapter, though I think it may have somehow been connected to 802.11n once before, when we had a Cisco router installed, I'm not too sure.

I know about QoS, but I've read that it doesn't do a "really" good job, or if I was to use values of 1 or 255 that it would strain the **** out of my router (DIR-655), is this true?

Should I switch to mixed mode 802.11n and b (n for Xbox, b for laptop) or 802.11n and g (n for Xbox, g for laptop). Also will switching to mix mode effect performance on the Xbox?

Or, should I buy a new D-Link router that has Dual band (2.4 and 5GHz), and if possible, use mixed mode 802.11n 5 GHz for the Xbox, and 802.11b or g 2.4 GHz on the laptop?

Thank you for your time.
Mike.


Edit: Sorry I've just found out that there is no mixed mode N and B. There is N and G, or N, G, and B mode. Should I maybe then install some software on the laptop to limit speed/connection, and if so are there any good free ones? Thanks again.

[FurryNutz]

I would set up the XBOX and your LT in QoS and set the priorities as you see fit. If your wanting to limit the traffic going to the LT and provide most of the traffic to the Xbox, then set the priorities appropriately for each. I would put the router on Mixed Mode G and N. It's recommended if you want the best performance, you should really use wired to the Xbox and use wireless for everything else.

Gaming and Gamefuel for XBL.