Archive for April, 2008

Xbox 360 Home Network Setup

Thursday, April 24th, 2008

Xbox 360 Home Network Setup A home wired network can be used to connect your Xbox game console (or any other network-ready game device, such as Playstation or Wii) with your personal home computer, and with your Internet Router for accessing Xbox Live resources. Setting up a home network doesn’t have to be a scary [...]

Multimedia Traffic Issues Through a Firewall

Friday, April 18th, 2008

Multimedia applications (such as RealAudio, VoIP Telephony, Video Streaming etc) were always an issue when passing through a network firewall. These kind of applications behave in unique ways: They use dynamic ports. They transmit request using TCP and get responses in UDP or TCP. They use the same port for source and destination. For each [...]