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    I am a noob, looking for assistance.

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      ianmc
      last edited by

      Hi
      I have an issue with my present router in that its old and sucks.
      I live with other people and have been annoyed with the network lag when they are using the internet and I am gaming.

      I like to play Planetside 2 which can be fun when the network works.
      I stumbled on pfsense through google.
      I know some things about computer networks but not a lot.

      Firstly I used a program called virtualbox to setup 3 computers. I have used virtualbax a lot, so its easy.
      I followed some tutorials on youtube to do this and have been successful.
      I have an old PC I intend to setup pfsense on. I may need to get another lan card but that is easy to get.

      I have one virtual machine with 2 virtual network adapters. One is a bridged adapter (to my router) and the other is a closed network (like a LAN).
      The other two machines have XP installed, each with the closed network adapters. Traffic seems to be going to and from these two easily.
      It seems I have setup pfSense successfully and it routing traffic.

      I am looking for help on routing traffic.
      I have little experience in configuring routers.

      Planetside 2 is an online game that does not use much bandwidth ( I think about 50 - 75 kb at most).
      I want the traffic for it to have priority over the other traffic.
      I found the ports the game uses
      http://forums.station.sony.com/ps2/index.php?threads/what-ports-does-planetside-2-use-g37-g15-errors.54622/

      Can someone help out in making sure the traffic gets through at a higher priority.

      I will set it up on the virtual machine then install & setup on the actual machine.

      Please help!

      Thanks in advance.

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        podilarius
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        Well, you are going to want traffic shaping then. Since PlanetSide2 is not pre-configured, you are going to have to setup using the wizard, and then go back and setup a rule in floating that will match the traffic for PS2.

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          ianmc
          last edited by

          Thanks for the info. Have been playing around with it. Is there any tutorial around to sort this out, possibly for another game. I caould then substitute the port numbers I guess.

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            podilarius
            last edited by

            Perhaps something like this?
            http://doc.pfsense.org/index.php/Traffic_Shaping_Guide

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