[Dclug] Bypassing a FIOS Router?

Ted Smith teddks at gmail.com
Tue Feb 23 13:35:34 EST 2010


On Tue, 2010-02-23 at 10:26 -0500, Kevin Dwyer wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 7:13 AM, John Holland <jbholland at gmail.com>
>  wrote: > I haven't noticed much difference but my son who is a big
>  time gamer says that a game server he connects to works much better
>  with the non-fios router.
> 
> The provided router is junk, but you'll only notice if you try to open
> more than about 50 or so simultaneous connections.  His game may have
> been pushing that, and definitely any P2P usage will hit it.
> 
> -kpd

Yup.

I've found you can lighten the load by running your own DNS server and
directing DHCP clients to that, though.
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