Recent content by firemanjim

Thank you so much for responding!

I have a Draytek router and I am struggling to get port forwarding to work alongside the firewall on this router. I beleive I have set up the port forward correctly but the firewall blocks it each time. Basically trying to forward and external port 4994 into and internal port 4994 When I...

Thanks everyone. That is really great help. I have ordered the switch and I will see what I can find out. I did have suspicions on the longest run of cable as I had some instances of loss of traffic a while ago. I perhaps wrongly, assumed that if the network showed as connected and traffic was...

Thanks a lot for the responses. This makes sense and I am reassured that the daisy chaining is not the issue. I see Netgear do what is called a "Smart Managed Plus" switch which seems to do port mirroring and possibly may help identify other networking issue - so is this something up to job...

Hi everyone I have an annoying issue with network lag and I would like some advice if possible. I try to play online games on Xbox one and get intermittent lag. My connection on, for example, Call of Duty shows as orange rather than green. Randomly, every so often, I get bad lag. I suspect...