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Digiweb Metro broadband for Xbox Live?

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  • 19-03-2008 5:34pm
    #1
    pattwoie
    Registered Users Posts: 34 ✭


    Moving to Drumcondra into a house with no phone line. Looking a broadband options and DigiWeb Metro seems like a good option.
    Anyone know if this works with Xbox Live?
    Is latency on the link too much to support lag free online gaming?


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    #2
    watty
    Registered Users Posts: 32,417 ✭✭✭✭watty


    Latency should be OK
    You will need a Router (not a DSL WiFi. ) Maplin, Argos etc sell them. it should have NO phone socket and a separate ethernet port dedicated to the Metro Modem.
    Dlink, Netgear, Sitecom, Linksys etc.. Argos call them Cable Routers, but they work for any ethernet situation.

    Like a DSL router, you may want to give the Xbox a DMZ setting on the Router. There are no settings on the Digiweb Modem.
    Or www.komplett.ie or www.dabs.ie online

    Anything with built in DSL won't work.


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    zAbbo
    Registered Users Posts: 11,987 ✭✭✭✭zAbbo


    I ran my XBL off Metro for a while, no noticable problems, good pings and latency as well.

    I hooked the modem up to a Dlink wireless router to share out the connection.

    With the anti-lag and improved net code of Xbox games, I never noticed any real problem and was consistently getting full green connection bars in COD4 etc.

    I was on the 3Mb service.


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    cgarvey
    Registered Users Posts: 3,886 ✭✭✭cgarvey


    I'm on an older 5Mb Metro plan, and my first hop pings range from 9-290ms, usually down around 15-20ms range. However the spikes vary, with 2-4% packet loss, so it does make for some jitter playing online PC games. If it stayed at 15-20ms it'd be absolutely fine for IE/UK servers, but the spikes and packet loss will definitely reduce the online experience. Whether you get those spikes/packet loss is down to a number of factors (what with this being a wireless technology).


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    #5
    pattwoie
    Registered Users Posts: 34 ✭pattwoie


    Thanks for your advice. Might be a valid option. Thinking of getting the £ Mb Digiweb Metro package.


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