03-06-2004, 05:47 PM
Q: What kind of home routers work ok? (#5039)
A: All of the popular ones!
Note, some games may require 'holes' places into the router firewall to allow ports, or port ranges, into your home network and directed to your PS2. This is known as port forwarding. Many routers support identifying one device as 'DMZ' .. A DMZd device has all firewall protection removed and gets all incoming traffic from the net. DMZing the port on the router the PS2 is plugged into removes the need to fiddle with the router configuration screens to setup port ranges. You also do not need to know the IP address of the PS2, as the DMZ determination is done by physical socket number (1,2,3 or 4 etc).
Routers that are a little difficult to setup for port forwarding include the cheaper D-Link models. The "2wire home gateway" appears to have a problem with forwarding a range of ports properly. All the Linksys, Netgear and Zyxel routers work.
Routers bought a long time ago may need firmware updates - please refer to your Router support page to check whether a later firmware version might solve any problems with port forwarding.
A: All of the popular ones!
Note, some games may require 'holes' places into the router firewall to allow ports, or port ranges, into your home network and directed to your PS2. This is known as port forwarding. Many routers support identifying one device as 'DMZ' .. A DMZd device has all firewall protection removed and gets all incoming traffic from the net. DMZing the port on the router the PS2 is plugged into removes the need to fiddle with the router configuration screens to setup port ranges. You also do not need to know the IP address of the PS2, as the DMZ determination is done by physical socket number (1,2,3 or 4 etc).
Routers that are a little difficult to setup for port forwarding include the cheaper D-Link models. The "2wire home gateway" appears to have a problem with forwarding a range of ports properly. All the Linksys, Netgear and Zyxel routers work.
Routers bought a long time ago may need firmware updates - please refer to your Router support page to check whether a later firmware version might solve any problems with port forwarding.
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