Re: Plus.Net NAT problems?

[Stuart Grimshaw <stuart@xxxxxxx>]

Here's a quick thaught, probably way off the mark, but...

Have you tried playing different games? I'm wondering if because your both
playing the same game, there's data coming in to the same port and the NAT
is getting a little confused as to where to send it?

On 2001.01.15 10:05:14 +0000 Stuart Grimshaw wrote:
> No, I don't have this problem. While I don't have 2 machines gaming at
> the
> same time, I do do things like set Linux off downloading something
then
> go
> for a quick blast on Counterstrike or TFC. I can't say that I've
noticed
> any drop in performance.
>
> The best place to try is one of the ADSL newsgroups, no disrespect to
> Plusnet but their tech support staff won't have a clue. They'll just
> phone
> BT. I've been down the route of trying to get Plusnet to sort an ADSL
> problem. One tip is make sure you always speak to the same guy.
>
> On 2001.01.15 09:44:59 +0000 Ian Lowe wrote:
> > I am having increidble problems with using NAT on Plus.NET It
works, in
> > that any machine can connect out and get the full bandwidth,
however,
> > as soon as more than one host is talking, the bandwidth
absolutely
> > floors.
> >
> > As an example, using that tried and tested network testing tool,
Unreal
> > Tournament... If I am playing online, I get a ping of about
130ms. If,
> > however, my wife starts playing as well, both of our pings rise
to
> > around the 3000ms mark. even popping open a web page when someone
else
> > is playing causes spikes of >1000ms ping.
> >
> > This doesn't happen on BT Internet, or even on Freeswerve. I have
> > mailed support, but I am wondering if any of you guys on Plus.NET
have
> > encountered this problem? and more importantly, found a solution?
> >
> > As an aside, I have tried this with both Winroute PRO, and
Windows 2000
> > RRAS with NAT, with exactly the same result.
> >
> > Ian.
> >
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