Dreylor Thunderfall
Conspiratus Immortalis
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Posted - 2012.09.16 00:23:00 -
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Xiree wrote:DMZ is a made up word. A firewall-less connection isn't DMZ.
DMZ = Demilitarized Zone... It is not a made up word... it is an area outside of your firewall... we usually use this for setting up honeypot traps for idiots who want to try to hack into a network. Also a few servers sit outside the firewall in the DMZ for full access... I wouldn't suggest putting your PS3 in the DMZ as you could possibly end up susceptible to DoS (Denial of Service) attacks. The DMZ exists between your Modem (connection to your ISP, regardless of who they are or what type it is) and the Switch half of your Router gear (the other ports that you plug your computer, or other network gear into).
again... it is outside the firewall
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Static IP, is YOUR NETMASK. IT is not tunneling your connectivity through port 80, exempting the netmask.
You are telling people how to port-forward...
If you want faster connectivity... Port Forwarding wouldn't increase anything. Cable sucks, DSL is better.
Netmask: the term "Netmask" is most often associated with subnet masking. (For most home users your subnet mask is 255.255.255.0) it tells the network devices which messages to listen to and which to ignore. Those that are allowed "fall through" the mask (it ends up comparing binary values within the packet headers... yeah I know... this is pretty deep geekery... but i hate it when people throw around buzzwords... like a lizard puffing up a dewlap trying to look impressive)
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If you want faster connection, you could splice two router ports to one eithernet cable... That would give you a faster downstream, but again if you are on cable -- You are going to have lag.
Just take two Eithernet cords.
Cut the ends off one cable.
With the other cable you just cut off one end.
Now take the two eithernet plug-ends and splice them to the one cable.
You should have a eithernet cable, that has two eithernet plugs at one end.
That will boost your connection. But it only works if you have a router that has more then one outlet.
2-headed ethernet cable monster: Is a work of fiction and wouldn't improve your connection at all.. what it would do is send extra voltage along the wire to your PS3 (or other devices connected to the single end) This is a pretty bad idea...
Beyond this you would also confuse the ARP table and routing table inside your router... because you have a single device, single MAC(Media Access Controller), on one wire, that's then replicating signal to the 2 ports on your Switch (which is connected to your router internally in most cases) it could throw collisions on the network or do other really goofy stuff...
Also a note on speed: Most modern ports on home networking equipment are 10 Mbps to 100 Mbps.
So a single 100Mbps port with a regular Cat-5e or Cat-6 Shielded cable(the normal kind with only 2 ends, not this mythical creature) will usually outperform anyone's home Internet connection. (as a side note: most lag and latency you experience is somewhere between your ISP and the end server... NOT within your home network, most times on a ping inside a home network are below 2ms.. and I ping to the test servers at about 24-48ms usually)
In short: don't try this at home kids
Addendum: Some lag can be generated in an improperly configured network, or firewall or if you have multiple Wireless Access Points (WAP) or have more than one router in your network, configured incorrectly.
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Forwarding is useless. The only thing you are doing is just exempting the netmask. The netmask is what helps your system stay secure. The netmask is only used upon making connection, after the netmask is used one time, it isn't used throughout the entire connection. Just on negotiation.
Thus, port forwarding is useless.
Port Forwarding:
Inside of your own private network you have a group of IPs that you use. (Most people use the default private network of 192.168.x.x which is a full Class B subnet that has been reserved for private use).
Your ISP gives you an IP address for your router, for what we call the "Outside Interface" or the WAN port on your router(dynamically or statically). What Port Forwarding does is it keeps a list within the routing table that exists inside your router, and it shutles TCP or UDP traffic to Specific ports to those listed internal addresses as if they were attached to the outside interface's IP address. (So a connection to 8.8.4.4:80 would get forwarded to an internal server's ip address on port 80. Oh and yes, that's a google DNS server IP I used for an example)
This helps get around some of the firewall and NAT issues that people may have as it simply goes through the firewall prevention and effectively "punches holes" for just those few ports that are given.
For those who have multiple systems (PS3s, Computers, web-servers, Televisions/DVD players with IP Connectivity etc.) You may find that once you forward these ports those other devices may lose some of their connectivity or functionality.
Yeah this was probably a really long post, hopefully it is educational or informative to some of you out there who were wondering.
No, not everyone out there is Geek-Savvy, but some of us are. Port Forwarding is a relatively common practice that works to help out a lot of people who may have issues with making and keeping connections to the game servers.  |