Well my previous wireless router for home got fried, I think from a glitch in the lines via Time Warner Cable. A few weeks ago, the HD cable DVR went into a bad state saying no service, call TWC. Went so far as to schedule service call. Suspiciously, at the same time, our internet went down. After diagnosing with them on the call, the modem was ok (connectivity ok when connected directly to pc), but not the router (couldn't get an IP address on the public WAN side).

Anyway - buddy Joe at work gave me one of his old routers, Linksys RV042 (tech info here) - this thing has a ton of features: VPN from the outside, lots of blocking features from the inside (think - kids! ), etc.

When the router died, I had to go quickly buy a replacement, and couldnt find any that have the ability to port forward from one port on the outside, to a DIFFERENT port on the inside. This RV042 from Joe does that (although in a funny way - by adding to the UPnP table)

Anyway - tech info here

XBox 360 couldnt connect to xbox live. Complained about insufficient MTU. Found this article here - changed the MTU to 1365. Not sure if that's an optimal setting or not, but makes Xbox live happy. More info about MTU settings here

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