I&#039;ve been a pretty big asshole on the forums lately, and it occurred to me that stopping now would just be pointless.<br /><br />First and foremost I would like to think that a god of anything, networking or otherwise, would have better grammar and spelling.<br /><br />For all those who want to gain something meaningful from Ladna&#039;s experimentation, ignore the nonsense Beast posted and try limiting yr (upload) bandwidth to see if it makes your connection feel better and less lossy. Furthermore, not only do many consumer routers have QoS (traffic shaping), Open-WRT has some of the best QoS support and it&#039;s FREE! Oh and I almost forgot, XP has QoS capabilities too :http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc737728%28WS.10%29.aspx<br /><br />On AT&amp;T DSL we found that limiting the upload short of the 768kbps cap moved our UDP packetloss from 40% to like ~3% (info via iperf). That is just the bandwidth fix we have found and it&#039;s definitely worth trying. Packet shaping is addressed in the Nagles&#039;s algorithm stuff, which I think Ladna mentioned was a bust. <br /><br />DMZ is basically a quarantine and isn&#039;t very smart unless you have a specific reason (web, email, proxy, etc...not to enhance your gaming!) If you feel the need to port-forward, do it I guess. I have never found a need for it with either Cable or DSL and a myriad of ISPs. Remember I&#039;m talking about client mode, server is a different BEAST all together.<br /><br />The forum jerk that is Nostar!<br /><br />EDIT: Ladna beat me to smacking your misguided post down apparently. I was busy this weekend!<br />