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[psykobearfan54]

I have spent 2 hours with technical support trying to get an answer to my question with no success. They had me update my FW to 1.15 insisting that was my problem. That did not work. I unchecked DYnamic Defrag; Enable SPI; Enable Multicast Streams and they had me reduce my MTU to 1492. So I figure that I throw this out to the crowd for an answer. I am trying to figure out if I am getting the maximum connection speed out of my router that I can. I have a cable modem through Comcast. My connection speed is supposed to be 16mbps. When I look at the screen on the router while I am play CODWAW, the meter shows that my wired connection is running anywhere from 1kbps to 30kbs next to the "SEND" meter and roughly the same next to the "RECEIVE" meter. I know enough to understand that these speeds fluctuate. What I am trying to understand is why the router is reporting that low of a speed when I have 16mbps capabilities with my service.

I have tested the playability online and everything seems to be fine. On most matches I jump in with a 4 to 5 bar connection rating, I have not seen any jumping around. So it appears that there is not much lag going on. There was one match that skipped around, but it must have been a bad connection in the lobby I was in because everyone's meters were down.

Is there anyway to determine how much speed I am getting out of the 360. My 360 and PS3 are wired directly to the router. My desktop and laptop are wireless. Once again, when I am surfing the net, everything appears to be moving fast, but the meter is running at low single/double digit kbps. I spent good money on this router to enhance my gaming experience online and would like to be assured that I am getting everything I can out of this router.

Any help or answers would be greatly appreciated and yes I know I am a NEWB at this.

[Reinvented]

It's an approximation...that's all.  All those settings and what not you just entered in were for nothing and a complete utter waste.  If anything, that would HINDER your connection and speed.  Especially changing of the MTU.  Not sure why you would want to do that at all...

When you are playing a game, you aren't going to be using every single bit of your connection.  You are only using what's available to you, and what's allocated to you by the host/server.  So, for example...if the server or host is ONLY capable of uploading to you at let's say 200 KB/second, you are using VERY little of your own bandwidth.  It doesn't take much at all.  And besides, you have to factor in both download AND upload.  Apparently, you just want to find out if you are getting the right speeds...if that's the case, then do a speedtest.  Games, or using that OLED screen isn't going to do anything for you at all.

Go here:  http://www.speedtest.net

Do a speedtest there...if you are getting 16000 Kbits, then you ar getting your 16 Mbits connection.

[psykobearfan54]

Thanks for the feedback. I tried the test and I am getting around 16000 download on average. Thanks for clearing that up for me. As I mentioned, I don't have a lot of knowledge with all of this. I will go back and reset some of those settings and see what happens. Based on what your saying it seems to me that all these "high-speed" routers they advertise are a bit overkill. Thanks again for your help.

[Reinvented]

There is no such thing as overkill when you deal with computers.