You don't have to touch your Linksys unless you host a tunnel. If you join someone's game, you don't have to do anything. I know because I did it behind Windows XP w/internet sharing & firewall running, and also with a Linksys at a friend's house. I didn't have to touch either of them until I wanted to host a game in gamespy. I jumped into several Halo and Tony Hawk games the first day

The hard part was running the 50ft cable until I get my wireless bridge (no nettap in living room)

 

[QUOTE]Originally posted by silverbullet
[B]You don't have to touch your Linksys unless you host a tunnel.

 

50ft should be fine, I plug mine directly into a switch that has my internet sharing machine attached to it. I was doing this on my laptop before I got wireless and it worked fine. I need to hurry up and get a wireless bridge for the living room so I can plug a hub into that for my xbox and an mp3 computer later.

 

I like where this is going. I've got RR now and have DSL coming in a week or two and will be keeping both. Can't wait!

 

[QUOTE]Originally posted by krhorrocks
[B]I like where this is going.

 

I teach programmers over the internet and have to have redundancy.

 

Any update yet krhorrocks ??

Have you got the xbox on broadband yet????

 

I've been playing through gamespy for the last 3 months it's great.... I finally decided to see if any other S2ki.com people played.

Post your Userid & Name so that I can play you.... and hopefully spank you.

Userid = Timmay
Name = Timothy Prati

A tip: It helps to host the games that way you never get lag unless you are on a T1 or T3..

If you are on a router and want to host... open up the following ports:
6500 (UDP) - For GameSpy Arcade
6700 (UDP) - For GameSpy Tunnel

If you don't know how to do it PM me and I will help you out.

 

Cool Thanks 4 the advice Smiley.....I will be getting the gamespy very soon....so we will be in touch

 

Finally got back into town and downloaded the stuff today. Going to set it up tonight. I'll post once I'm up and running and we can set up an S2Ki spank fest. uh, that came out wrong.