Red faction lists my name on the server browser instead of me having to give my IP out to everyone.
I have tried everything but the remote management, will do that later tonight after work and let you know.

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Red faction lists my name on the server browser instead of me having to give my IP out to everyone.

Any possibility the server browser is not updating the IP for that name when you change connections then (or similar result if your listing is cached by the other copies of the game)?

Not being familiar with the game I'm guessing your local copy of the game registers with some online service which populates the server browser either as soon as the game is started or only when start to host a session.

One experiment would be to exit the game and ask the other persons to say how long before you disappear from the server browser, then change connections, restart the game and see how long before you reappear in the list.

Remote management failed, I see what you mean but I'll explain about the server browser:
I would start up my PC which automatically connects to Xilo, host a game and no one can see it, switch instantly to BT and have people be able to see it :/

Sorry for double posting.
I plugged my draytek vigor 120 v2 in and plugged my pc straight into that using windows pppoe cilent and people are able to see me on xilo!
Problem is, the draytek modem only seems to connect on 10mbps lan and not 100, which gives me a very bad throughtput of 2-6 Mbps instead of my consistant 16 Mbps on the DGN1000 router

Does the internet work though the Belkin or DGN1000 router on the xilo connection? No one appears to have asked this basic question. It's just that with it working using a modem and pppoe authentication I suspect an authentication issue (wrong username/password pair set on the router) and I'm not sure if you have ruled this out.

Yes, works very well gives me 16 Mbps throughput.

Interesting - if the internet can see your PC when you are on Xilo via a modem (+ PPPoE) but you can't connect to the Netgear router remote management in a web browser
http://xilo public-ip:remote-management-port-number/)
from a different (e.g. BT connection), even if remote management is enabled from all WAN addresses,
that would point to something else being wrong on the Netgear router.

Note on using PPPoE, depending on your version of Windows it might not automatically enable Windows Firewall on that PPPoE connection (to the computer it is another interface almost as if you added another network card), which would put your computer directly on the internet (as PPPoE via Draytek modem gives your PC the Xilo public IP).

In that case there is nothing left to block the game from working (or any other incoming ports for that matter!)

Where the "LAN" connection of the Draytek modem is being reported as 10Mbps, it is not a LAN connection as such but just an icon representing the PPPoE session / settings so a "speed" stat might be more related to modem sync or as opposed to ethernet data rate, especially if the exchange lowered your sync speed because of the disconnections.

But I haven't used the built-in PPPoE client for ages so can't confirm this.

Edited by prlzx (Thu 30-Aug-12 20:19:07)

Lively here, what I meant when I said LANI mean clicking Local Area connection on my PC and the speed there says 10Mbps my sync on the modem is well above that.
As for the noise margin increase with restarts, Im on full LLU