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I am planning on picking one of these up in the next few days since my current router drops my internet connection while doing P2P connections. I was wondering if anyone had a recommendation on a 3rd part FW to use for this.

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I have a Linksys BEFW11S4 and I was wondering how to set it up for the best security.

Block WAN Request:
Multicast Pass Through:
IPSec Pass Through:
PPTP Pass Through:

Should I enable these or disable these?

Also, are there any ports I should filter or close on my router?

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I don't play the other games but I do play CS. You might not have the right rates in your config. I used to get huge lag spikes and nasty choke cause I played around with my rates to much. There are three pretty important ones to play with.

Here are my current settings:

rate 9000
cl_updaterate 20 ...

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Thanks, they worked great

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I have the TCPOptimizer installed already so should I also use Cablenut as well?

I have DSL (not PPPoE) 1.5 / 128

1st system Win 98SE

2nd XP Home

Those are my two comps, if you have the settings for these two I would be much obliged.

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I did this last night and tis might work for you.

I installed the drivers on my 98 machine and had the printer shared on my other machine. With my 98 machine I did this:

Control Panel > Right click on the printer > Properties > Then on my printer it gave me the option to print to the following ...

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UPDATE

Well I finally figured out my problem. My config files for Halflife weren't correct. My rates and things were not correct and it caused extreme lag when playing. Here I thought my router sucked all this time. Thanks for taking the time to try and help me though, I appreciate it.

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Right now I use a direct connection. Neither comp is using the wireless feature and I also have it disabled at the moment.

It is more or less the huge lag spikes I experience when playing online. Our pings shoot up anywhere from 200 - 400 which shouldn't be happening. I am just trying to figure out ...

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Yeah it says in the manual that it uses NAT and TCP/IP port inspections. I know there probably isn't a way, but is it possible to disable this and see if this is possibly my problem?

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I have a Linksys BEFW11S4 (I am currently not using the wireless feature) with two comps hooked to it (details in my profile)

I am not sure exactly when this started but we have been experiencing lots of lag spikes when we play online games. As a test last night, my brother hooked up the DSL ...

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Thanks for the help

I was wondering what the TCP and UDP stood for when forwarding ports?

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http://www.hansenonline.net/HalfLife/

At the top of this page it describes a problem I am having with CS. I was wondering how exactly to set up my router like they talk about. I have never done this so any help would be a appreciated.

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I have two comps hooked up together using a Linksys BEFW11S4 router but when ever we both are using internet we get huge spikes. We both tried playing CS but the spikes make it unbearable. I haven't made any real changes in the router but I was reading a little into DHCP. Would playing with this ...

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I have a Linksys BEFW11S4 Router with two comps hooked up together. Basically when I hooked up both comps to it it worked fine allowing us both on the internet. My question is all of the advanced features and other settings. Would playing around with these make my speeds any faster and more ...

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Add this to your command line

-32bpp

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Forgot to mention that the XP machine has a Geforce 3 and the 98 has a Riva TNT2 card both Nvidia brand if that makes a difference.

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Ok, I have two comps hooked up together using a Linksys BEFW11S4 router with the latest firmware. One of my systems is running Win 98SE and the other XP Home. When I play Counter strike with my brother we play just fine with no lag. When I disable Vsync on either machine and we try to play together ...

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Thank you.

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What are the Cablenut settings for Win 98SE, DSL again? I am using 64240 as my RWIN.

Thanks

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Thanks for the info.

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Are these DSL, Cable or both?

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Well, it seems that 64240 is the best value I can get out of my connection. My download stayed about the same but my upload increased about 20 or so. Any other suggested values for the TCP Recieve window?

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Sorry about that

2002-07-05 17:24:34 EST: 656 / 56
Your download speed : 656507 bps, or 656 kbps.
A 80.1 KB/sec transfer rate.
Your upload speed : 56022 bps, or 56 kbps.
Your upstream result was very slow! .. not good

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TCP properties for IP = **.**.**.** (dsl-**-**-**-**.telocity.com)
Browser/OS = Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows 98)
Note: Read the FAQ if the above is not your IP address.

TCP options string = 020405b40103030101010402

MTU = 1500
MTU is fully optimized for broadband.

MSS = 1460 ...

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You also might try setting the cl_lw to 0 instead of 1. It shows where bullets actually hit and works really well if you are on a server where you ping well.

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Ok I have a few things that might work. My bro had the same problem and we finally fixed his problems.

#1: In your config look for the following entrys:

cl_lw "1"
cl_lc "1"

If they are set to 0, make sure they are set to 1.

Next in your config file find these and set to the following:

cl ...

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My router has a firewall and I want to disable it. I have a linksys befsr41. Does anyone know how to disable it?

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Ok, I know I have ADSL so I am setting it to 10 Full mode. Thanks for the help.

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Nice, thanks for the info guys.

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I was wondering how you guys know what the RWIN numbers mean in the TCP optimizer patch. Like if I wanted to pop some values in how would I know one is better than the other?

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Ok, I figured out how to change the duplex but I am not sure exactly what I should set it to. It is currently on Auto mode. I don't use PPPoE DSL either.

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http://www.speedguide.net/files/vtcp386/236926USA8.EXE

http://speedguide.net/files/TCPOptimizer.exe

I just have those two installed. I am not exactly sure how I would check my duplex. I went to that site in your sig but am not sure what I should do.

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Ok my new stats are:

Test running.........
** Speed 656(down)/61(up) kbps **
(At least 13 times faster than a 56k modem)
Finish.

TCP options string = 020405b40103030201010402

MTU = 1500
MTU is fully optimized for broadband.

MSS = 1460
Maximum useful data in each packet = 1460, which is equal ...

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Ok, you guys need my OS and system specs? I just put those in.

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I am not exactally sure what you mean by profile so I will give all the info again.

This is a comp running Win 98 with a Linksys BEFW11S4 router and using Direct TV DSL.

TCP options string = 020405b40103030001010402

MTU = 1500
MTU is fully optimized for broadband.

MSS = 1460
Maximum useful ...

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Test running..........
** Speed 659(down)/97(up) kbps **
(At least 13 times faster than a 56k modem)
Finish.

Advertised speed is 1.5Mbps/128Kbps.

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How would I find this out if you don't mind my asking?

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TCP options string = 020405b40103030001010402

MTU = 1500
MTU is fully optimized for broadband.

MSS = 1460
Maximum useful data in each packet = 1460, which is equal to MSS.

Default Receive Window (RWIN) = 51100
RWIN Scaling (RFC1323) = 0 bits
Unscaled Receive Window = 51100
RWIN is a ...

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Ok, thanks I just did that. Now if I wanted to tweak my other system which is running XP home edition would it be the same kinds of things?

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Thanks guys. It worked and thanks to travelin man for the help with the firmware.

My new results.

TCP options string = 020405b40103030201010402

MTU = 1500
MTU is fully optimized for broadband.

MSS = 1460
Maximum useful data in each packet = 1460, which is equal to MSS.

Default Receive ...

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