how to have a better online gaming experience?
So I’m on xbox live playing MW2 and Black Ops and soooo looking forward to Battlefield 3 so I can throw away black ops and all the CODS. I won;t even sell them on Craigslist for I don’t want to be responsible for torturing any young adults with this garbage.
Anyways, I have done all I can do to achieve the best internet connection and I just moved from one Apartment to another a few miles away and same problem so it’s not "my apartments" I live in a rich neighborhood although I’m n ot claiming to be rich. More yuppies than anything here in Issaquah, Redmond, Bellevue. People who care more about their car than their children.
I got broadband cable over DSL.
I have 30mb down 6mb up.
I bought the best router while putting XBOX on DMZ mode. (doesnt help even when I go direct to modem so don’t tell me it might be my router)
I cleaned the cache out of my xbox hardrive and play the game from hardrive which speeds load times etc.
I speed tested my connection and tells me "faster than 98% of the rest of the US"
I did a DNS benchmark and found the 2 fastest DNS servers so I set those although I realize that don’t play much role in pingtimes for gaming.
I always play with all other computers ethernets unplugged from router so there is not anything else leeching off of my ISP
I have my wireless completely disabled on my gigaport router and run cat6 cables from modem to router to xbox
I’ve done it all folks,
Fact is, my connection is not the issue. And I don’t want to so easily blame the game Black ops or the entire Call of duty franchise even though I think they are pathetic for not letting us know where their servers are located so we can get a better understanding of why the connection is so poor, Because it happens on more than just COD. Battlefiled same issue.
I’m starting to think it is none of the above but XBOX MICROSOFT plain and simple. The wierd part is that I live right down the street from Microsoft/Xbox Headquarters. Shouldn’t I have at least a fair gaming experience, Why is it that I have the best connection in the room 99 out of a 100 times and it makes me host, yet the delay and bullet registering is pathetic.
Come watch my game play sometime on Black ops in theater mode. I’m not bragging but There isnt but a handful of people as good as me as far as a smart player goes and I don’t camp. I have been forced to play smarter because head to head I get unfair lag against me. I get the feeling it’s something to do with living in the Northwest because I know how good I am at these games. My wife watches me get first place 9 times out of 10 on the average but we both can’t believe how robbed I’m constantly getting. I only get first place like I do because I play smarter than most people and a lot more aggressive with noob tubes, rpg’s and double grenades etc. lol The fact is, if this was a lan line I know people would accuse me of cheating because my precision and instincts are supernatural.
Problem still remains however that living in the Northwest and Microsoft isn’t all they say they are. As much as I hate to say this I’m about to go back to Playstation even though their number one shooter game "SOCOM" was an absolute failure on PS3 SOCOM 4, and Zipper Headquarters who also is located just a few miles away from where I live, ignored the true SOCOM fans when we told them we want SOCOM 2 back, THE REAL SOCOM! Not this garbage the Military Industrial Complex apparently told them to make to benefit their recruiting garbage for another tyrannical staged terrorist event. Who knows.
Support your local militia and the Constitution that gives us our God given rights. Bill Gates supports death panels. Maybe we should throw these greedy murderers in jail for a change!