Dekar's new HTPC

[Bartimaeus]

I think mine hasn't broken because nobody in my houses really like consoles, and prefer computers.

[Dekar]

I barely play with it anyway, but if I'd play more I would really need a new nice TV - Playing with my 88" is barely possible since you look around all the time and get shot. It was so hard to play GTA4 with it, every time I looked down at the map I crashed into things. Great for HD-movies, but really not for gaming - even in split-screen you can barely handle it.

[Black-Hole]

Dekar... Check the D-Link Gaming Router, 200 US$ Automatically detects and Forwards all the ports for the games you play. When i connected my laptop it forwarded the ports for WC3, and now i can host wirelessly on my network :p My Xbox live is faster Wireless than it is wired (that was weird to me but whatever)

Basicly when you can host a WC3 game on a Wireless N network its Optimized for gaming. Also with the Gaming fuel, if im playing a Game and my Step dad wants to go on youtube and watch a 20 min video, its only going to give him about 50 to 100 KBPS max... (If that) and the rest goes to me :p

This is the router i got :p http://www.dlink.com/products/?pid=643

[Dekar]

Automatic port forwarding is retarded (Kills all the security of a firewall), you can set yourself to exposed host if you want that in the first place!
And QoS/traffic shaping isn't a new feature as well, my 5 year old linux based router can do the same - and even without retarded limit (50-100kbps). My Fritz!Box gives others all the unused speed left.

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[Black-Hole]

By automatic Port Forwarding i mean - The router has a Database of about 600 Online Games/Programs Warcraft 3, World of warcraft, Starcraft 1 and 2 are all in there. XBox Live, PSN, and acouple others are there also, you can also manually set up the Forwarding.

Thats the limit i set

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[Ozzapoo]

Screw D-Link. Its routers keep disconnecting and its WLAN card failed after 2 weeks.

[Dekar]

Doesn't look any useful to me, they just renamed standard options. My router probably costs a bit more than yours but it handles all the telephony and fax stuff. Does your router for example allow you to enforce fastpath? Mine does http://dekar.wc3edit.net/2008/02/21/ena ... m-routers/

[Black-Hole]

Thats what Gaming Fuel is, and with Timewarner its not really needed though. They boost your speeds when your Downloading or using alot of Bandwidth.

[Dekar]

Fastpath is different, it disables your lines error correction, and thus lowers your overall throughput a bit, but decreases your pings by 5-20ms as well. (the faster the line already is, the lower the gain)