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Xbox live kills my TF2.
Created 13th November 2010 @ 20:32
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So basically I live in an 8 person student house and we have the xxl virgin media package (50mb).
My PC is connected directly to the router (D-link dir-615) and I have the Quality of Service enabled which has helped immensely making TF2 playable even when my housemates are on spotify/iplayer etc.
The problem now occurs because we have recently got xbox live, and with the release of black ops, it is being used quite a lot. As soon as they start playing online on the xbox, my tf2 just starts lagging horrendously and people can’t hear me on mumble (although I can still here them). My ping jumps from around 35 to 110 and it feels like im constantly bumping into spies (even though I’m not). Basically TF2 becomes unplayable. The xbox is wirelessly connected to the router, and my pc is directly connected.
The shitty QoS settings in the router settings, just lets you enable/disable QoS. So obviously it prioritises gaming traffic, but it has no way of configuring which gaming traffic is important (my pro tf2 career) and which isn’t (killing 13 year olds on some shit game).
Has anyone had the same problem/got a solution/some software which can help? I’ve had a google for Bandwidth Management software but it all goes straight over my head.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
I think you can tweak the settings on the internet to make sure you get the right packets or whatever it’s called. The way I see it is, it’s either one of the other.
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Last edited by Fluffy Meowington,
use an old pc to setup a router yourself.
you know what you’re doing: use iptables + tc directly: –> have a better quality of service you can actually configure.
you’ve never heard of iptables: use pfsense (the 2.0 beta has some nice l7 qos afaik.)
Last edited by dave,
i’d better bake a cake with toaster
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