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Chapter 4: The X6 and Online Gaming

31

4

The X6 and Online Gaming

This chapter covers the set up of the

X6

for online gaming with

a desktop, notebook, Xbox® Live, or Playstation® 2.

Do I Need to Do Anything?

There are three cases where you need to set up your modem in

order to play online games:

•

If you are using your computer to play a peer-to-peer or head-

to-head game over the Internet, you always have to set up the

modem unless you linked up to your partner by going to a

Web site. A peer-to-peer game is a game where two players are

competing directly against one another. Popular peer-to-peer

games include

Age of Empires

,

Command and Conquer

,

Dark Reign 2

, and

Unreal Tournament

. If you are unsure

whether your game is a peer-to-peer game, check the game

instructions.

If you are using your computer to play a multi-player game

and

you want to host the game. Popular multi-player games

include

Half Life

,

Diablo II

,

Delta Force

,

Hexen II

,

Myth

,

Quake II

, and

Warcraft II

,

III

.

If you are playing an online game using Xbox® Live or

PlayStation® 2.

In all three cases you will need to do the steps described in the

next section,

Setting Up the X6 for Online Gaming

.

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Setting Up the X6 for Online

Gaming

Setting up the X6 for online gaming involves two basic steps:

Choosing an IP Address for Gaming

and

Setting Up a Virtual

Server or DMZ.

This section provides instructions for doing these

tasks on your computer, Xbox®, or Playstation® 2.

Step 1: Choosing an IP Address

for Gaming

You need to make sure that the computer or gaming system you

use for playing games always has the same IP address. By default,

the X6 assigns addresses dynamically (using

D

ynamic

H

ost

C

onfiguration

P

rotocol or DHCP) to the devices on the local area

network whenever they reboot. Therefore, the addresses won’t

necessarily always be the same. The modem, however, can be set

up to assign the same address to your computer or gaming system

every time.

To ensure that your computer or gaming system always uses the

same address, follow the steps below.

1

If you are using Xbox or PlayStation 2, connect the device to

your modem with an Ethernet cable. On your TV screen,

locate

Network Settings

and select

Connect

.

2

Click the

Advanced Setup

icon in the

Zoom Configuration

Manager

.

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3

On the

Advanced Setup

page, click the

LAN Configuration

button. Next click the

Add DHCP Fixed Host

button. The

Create New DHCP Server Fixed Host

page appears:

4

Before you can enter an IP address, you need to enter the

MAC (

M

edia

A

ccess

C

ontrol) address of your computer or

gaming system. Follow the next set of instructions for your

gaming system to find the gaming system’s MAC address.

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If you are using a computer to play an online

game:

¾

If you know the name of your computer or if you have

only one computer connected, you can find the MAC

address under

DHCP Clients

at the bottom of the

Create

New DHCP Server Fixed Host

page. You can also find

the MAC address on the

System Status

page. Click the

System Status

icon and scroll down until you see

DHCP

Client Status

.

¾

If you do not know the name of your computer or you

have more than one computer connected, follow these

steps to find the MAC address:

a

b

c

d

e

Go to the computer you want to use for gaming.

Click the

Start

button and select

Run

.

In the

Run

dialog box, type

command

and click

OK

to open the

Command

or

MS-DOS

window.

In the

Command Prompt

or

MS-DOS

window

(after C:\> or C:\WINDOWS>), type

ipconfig

, leave

a space, then type

/all

It should look like this:

ipconfig /all

Press

Enter

. The MAC address is displayed as the 12-

digit

Physical Address

or

Internet Adapter

address.

Go to

Step 5

.

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If you are using Xbox® Live to play an online

game:

a

b

You can find the MAC address on the Xbox

Dashboard in the lower right corner of the

Network

Settings

menu. You will see something like

MAC=0050F24ADC29. Your address will be

different. You will also need to assign an

IP address

now. To do this, on the

Xbox Network Settings

menu select

IP Addresses

.

On the

IP Addresses

screen, enter the following:

Configuration

Manual

IP Address

10.0.0.50

Subnet Mask

255.255.255.0

Gateway

10.0.0.2

c

d

e

Press

B

to go back to the

Network Settings

menu.

On the

Network Settings

menu, select

DNS

Servers

.

On the

DNS Servers

screen, enter the following:

Configuration

Manual

Primary DNS

10.0.0.2

Alternate DNS

10.0.0.2

f

Press

B

twice to return to the main menu. Then go to

Step 5

.

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