Help for freezing due to LAN load One of the first thing you may notice about IKS, is that if you are using other stuff on your network, epically out to the internet, you may experience more freezing. Gaming, big downloads, and voice chat and suck up a lot of bandwidth and cause delays for the box getting iks packets. I use Second Life a lot and it can pretty much kill IKS without some tweaking.

But, depending on your router, there is something you can do to help. For this I'm using a standard Linksys WRT54G. (You may be able to adapt this info for other units)

You will need to log in toe the routers setup pages. If you don't know how to do that already, don't even think about trying this.

Go to the "Applications & Gaming" tab, t he click "QoS" which is "Quality of Service"

Look at the "Ethernet Port Priority" section. Make sure floe control is on for all 4 ports. Then set the port you sat box is connect to "High" leaving the other three set "low". This tells the router that and network traffic for the device on the port set to 'high' gets priority over others. And hit SAVE

I also use "Device priority". You need to enter the device name, priority and MAC address. Priority should be set to Highest. You can get the name and MAC address from the status section, then go to 'local network' then click the "DHCP Clients Table" button. Copy the "client host name" and MAC address, then close thepop up window and go back to QoS and enter the info there. And be sure to SAVE the new setting.

While this won't help freezing causing at the server end or slow internet. It will help with in your own LAN. Once I did this it virtually ended all freeing that was happing during online gaming and stuff.

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