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I have a game center and the network I use to system link my 24 xboxs
for tournament and freeplay is also connected to my computer, which
means that the network is connected to Broadband internet.
People eventually found out that the xboxs were connected to a
broadband connection. Lately, I've been having more and more people
show up with their memory cards wanting to play xbox live, particularly
as a team of four guys on four xboxs in team slayer/skirmish.
Sometimes I'll have as many as 8 people using their xbox live accounts
at once.
I have six xboxs per room in four different rooms networked together
with two d-link dss-5+ switches chained together in each room. The
xboxs are connected into the switches, and then one of the switches
from each room is connected into a caymen series utopia 4 port
router/dsl modem.
This works great for system link play, but when people come in with
memory cards and play on live it's a fairly regular occurence that they
will get booted - about 15% of the time. This, they tell me, is
particularly annoying in team slayer matches. Usually only one guy from
a team will get booted, but occassionally two guys will.
I called microsoft and asked them for a recommendation. They suggested
replacing the dss-5+ with Di-604 routers. I replaced one of the
switches with a Di-604 and the connection on the xboxs connected to it
was rock solid - played for hours with no one getting kicked.
Unfortunately, though this router works great for online play, it will
not work with sytem link play from room to room as you can not chain
these routers together through the WAN port. You can chain them
together through the LAN ports but if I did that it would mean that I
would need 3 di-604s PER ROOM to accomadate the xboxs and my computer
connection.
I called d-link and they recommended using a DI-808hv (which is an 8
port router) but bypassing the WAN port and just using the LAN ports so
that system link would still work as well as xbox live if people chose
to use it. It has 8 LAN ports on it and given that the DI-604 works
great with Xbox live the DI-808hv probably would, too, according to
D-Link anyway.
My question is this. D-Link also makes an 8 port switch - the Dss-8+.
It's considerably cheaper than the DI-808hv. Can anybody tell me which
would work better with Xbox Live using multiple xboxs? I continue to
have the problem with people getting booted from live using the
existing dss-5+ but maybe this has something to do with having two
dss-5+ chained together in each room. Again, it does not happen all
the time, just some of the time. Would I be able to expect different
results using just one switch per room ( the dss-8+) rather than two
per room (the dss-5+)? Would I be better to chain three DI-604s
together per room? Or would I be better off just spending the extra
cash and going with one DI-808hv per room and using the 8 LAN ports on
each one?
Any help would be appreciated. Sorry for the long post.
I have a game center and the network I use to system link my 24 xboxs
for tournament and freeplay is also connected to my computer, which
means that the network is connected to Broadband internet.
People eventually found out that the xboxs were connected to a
broadband connection. Lately, I've been having more and more people
show up with their memory cards wanting to play xbox live, particularly
as a team of four guys on four xboxs in team slayer/skirmish.
Sometimes I'll have as many as 8 people using their xbox live accounts
at once.
I have six xboxs per room in four different rooms networked together
with two d-link dss-5+ switches chained together in each room. The
xboxs are connected into the switches, and then one of the switches
from each room is connected into a caymen series utopia 4 port
router/dsl modem.
This works great for system link play, but when people come in with
memory cards and play on live it's a fairly regular occurence that they
will get booted - about 15% of the time. This, they tell me, is
particularly annoying in team slayer matches. Usually only one guy from
a team will get booted, but occassionally two guys will.
I called microsoft and asked them for a recommendation. They suggested
replacing the dss-5+ with Di-604 routers. I replaced one of the
switches with a Di-604 and the connection on the xboxs connected to it
was rock solid - played for hours with no one getting kicked.
Unfortunately, though this router works great for online play, it will
not work with sytem link play from room to room as you can not chain
these routers together through the WAN port. You can chain them
together through the LAN ports but if I did that it would mean that I
would need 3 di-604s PER ROOM to accomadate the xboxs and my computer
connection.
I called d-link and they recommended using a DI-808hv (which is an 8
port router) but bypassing the WAN port and just using the LAN ports so
that system link would still work as well as xbox live if people chose
to use it. It has 8 LAN ports on it and given that the DI-604 works
great with Xbox live the DI-808hv probably would, too, according to
D-Link anyway.
My question is this. D-Link also makes an 8 port switch - the Dss-8+.
It's considerably cheaper than the DI-808hv. Can anybody tell me which
would work better with Xbox Live using multiple xboxs? I continue to
have the problem with people getting booted from live using the
existing dss-5+ but maybe this has something to do with having two
dss-5+ chained together in each room. Again, it does not happen all
the time, just some of the time. Would I be able to expect different
results using just one switch per room ( the dss-8+) rather than two
per room (the dss-5+)? Would I be better to chain three DI-604s
together per room? Or would I be better off just spending the extra
cash and going with one DI-808hv per room and using the 8 LAN ports on
each one?
Any help would be appreciated. Sorry for the long post.
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