[pabscars]

i have the wag614v9, and i have over the recent weeks been trying different settings, to see if it benefits my connection when playing online (xbox 360), and a thought just occured to me, in a previous thread it was mentioned about setting up a static ip on the xbox, so on recommendation i chose 192.168.1.19 instead of leaving the xbox on automatic,

(this ip address is apparently away from the dhcp servers) ?????????

So since then this has been my default ip on my xbox, can anyone please clarify if this practice is ok if i dont have a static ip supplied by by my isp VM, and is there any chance of getting some kind of ip conflict if i dont have a static ip supplied from VM.

maybe someone could explain the benefit to having a static IP.

In another flash of inspiration today, i decided that i would go into my port forwarding section via the usual route (192.168.1.1), and try to port forward the relevant ports for xbox live, as my connection has been a bit flakey recently, not terrible but no great.

so in the port forwarding/triggering section i had already previously assigned 5 common ports for xbox live to the ip mentioned earlier 192.168.1.19, and tried to change it to (ALL) IP address's, so that if i set the xbox to automatically find an ip address, the ports i have forwarded will always be open so too speak. (i hope i havent lost you yet)

but when i tried to change port 3074 which is currently set up on 2 lines

one for 3074 UDP
one for 3074 TCP

it wouldnt let me alter it because it said that the port is already in use, and the screen returned to the original page. as if the port was already being used by some other software.

it did however let me change one of the other used ports, namely 88UDP from forwarding only on 192.168.1.1 to (ALL) ip's with no problems.

This may be a problem created by me in the the early days, because i did try port forwarding using the VM supplied software, and not going through the correct method of selecting 192.168.1.1 and putting in my username and password.

i,m now wondering will this cause some kind of conflict, if port forwarding is being controlled by 2 different methods,

ie VM supplied wireless desk top shortcut
and netgear homepage router login.

phew i think that just about sums things up, can any kind soul put me out of my misery or give any feedback please.

i know if all else fails i can do a master rest of the router, but the last time i tried that things went a bit pete tong, and i had to call VM to bail me out (cheers vm).