Hey man, keep this thing at the top page, I need to reference it later tonight.

-OTISMAN

4rumboys

i hope they do though

Great write up! This is exactly what I've been looking for...

I just got comcast's 15mb up plan and it still doesn't seem like enough to keep me at 4 bars consistantly in Black Ops. I will definitely try out these methods though and see what I can do to keep up with the competitive curve.

One of the main things I see you mention that has me worried about my setup is I'm still using the router Comcast gave me. This seems like it could be a major part in why my connection seems slower. Having said that, can anyone recommend a good router for gaming? I'm looking to spend no more than $100 so anything in that price range would be awesome!

Thanks again for the great post!

My Netgear N300 is doing fairly well.

Netgear WNR200 "N300" [LINK]

Opinons on this are nescesary. I used to love Linksys, but I had an E3000 crap out on me.

Well I bought the Netgear N600 last night... Right after installing it, I noticed a pretty significant difference while playing Black Ops... I was getting 4 bar consistantly. There were only a few times where it dropped to 3 bar that I saw and even that was for a split second.

I also tried out the Google DNS numbers and that seemed to work well too... When I restarted my xbox, it logged into xbox live immediately. Usually there is a noticeable load lag. Awesome! I'm going to try the other method of finding the best DNS connection locally tonight and see if that makes things any better.

Again, thanks for the post!