Setting up a DMZ?

I have no idea what this does but i have been disconnecting a lot from the game recently, i was told to set up a DMZ by a friend to test see if its better, but i have no idea what one is.

Ive got onto my routers page and found the option for DMZ set up but what do i do from here please? Reason i ask is because i tried to set up port forwarding and i was told CoH and CoV have too many ports for my router to support or something.

Either way its been a pain to set up so far, so can someone please point me in the right direction?

I have a p4 4ghz duel core with 1gb RAM and a geforce 8400gt 3d card but im still taking ages to load on certain things and i rubber band a fair bit, im almost certain this is connection and not my lack of memory because its fine on offline games at the minute, but as soon as i hit play online it lags a lot.

Any help greatly appreciated, just please explain well as im not the smartest of people lol.

Also i have all the latest drivers so that is not the issue and i still rubber band with lowest settings to same amount as i do on high setting

Get another gig of memory

I’ll see if I can get this correct without referring to a wiki.

Most routers have NAT (Network Address Translation) turned on as standard, this means that any computers connected to the router are hidden from the outside world (i.e. the internet) as the router translates their internal network address (i.e. IP address) to look the same as its own. In other words I have two servers and various personal computers attached to my router, but as far as the internet is concerned there is only one computer.

A DMZ (Demilitarised Zone) is a computer attached to the router that is outside of NAT. That means that rest of the world can see it as a computer in its own right.

You wouldn’t generally run a DMZ unless it was for very specific purposes, as they are far less secure and I would never recommend running your main personal computer on a DMZ. If you did want to set one up (say for a web server) your routers manual should be able to tell you how to do it.

Your problem sounds more like one with your local computer, however, and I’m tempted to agree with TRT. If you are running Vista on that machine get another gig of RAM. If you are running the 64 bit version of Vista get another couple for the hell of it (don’t bother going above 2 gig if you only run the 32 bit version, as it’s not really worth the money). On my Vista machine running a few bits of software and a decent game will eat up about 1.5 Gb of RAM.

Other than that you could try the tips mentioned in this thread [linky] to see if you have any network problems (local or ISP related).

sorry guys forgot to mention im on xp pro, vista is pointless lol.

I set up port forwarding on Vuze, formerly azureus and i dont know why but now the lag has sorted itself out. I load in under 10 secs now, so it was definately something to do with what was changed.

Since i posted i set up a static IP address could that have been it?

I know my router doesnt have NAT enabled when i got it, i turned it on but still got really bad download rates and stuff turns out i had to follow this port forwarding thing.

Have you been running bittorrent while trying to play CoX?

Not whilst playing it no, i only have it running when not playing still dont get why it made a difference but its ok now so /shrug

Still interesting though, (I’m currently (okay, not right now as I’m cooking dinner) trying to track down why my NAS keeps disconnecting from my router, and I’m finding it good fun).

I’m tempted to say that Vuze was hogging the ports CoH needed and the port forwarding has solved that (I’m not sure what Vuze does in the background), but I’m often wrong where technical things are concerned. The static IP shouldn’t make any difference.