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Improve Your Xbox 360 Experience with Port Forwarding
1:00AM Adam Pash | Wired’s How-To Wiki details step-by-step how to set up port forwarding to make sure you’re getting the best experience from your Xbox 360 and Xbox Live game play. Depending on your router you may never have needed to do this, but if you’ve ever experienced long wait-times between games and other suspicious network problems, there’s a fair chance that a quick trip through your router’s settings could make a big difference. While you’re at it, you may be interested in tweaking your router to ensure your Xbox gets the lion’s share of your bandwidth when you need it. Finally, now that you’re gaming is set up for top performance, maybe it’s time you do more than just game on your 360. Set Up Port Forwarding on Your Xbox 360 [Wired How-To Wiki] More »
Access Your Computer Anytime and Save Energy with Wake-on-LAN
4:00AM Adam Pash | You want access to your home computer wherever you are, whatever you’re doing, whether that’s via a remote desktop connection, SSH, FTP, web interface, or any other remote access you’ve set up. The catch is, you don’t like throwing money away to an always-on system. Luckily you can have your digital cake and eat it, too, and today I’ll show you how to boot and shut down your system remotely so that it’s ready for you when you need it and it’s not wasting energy when you don’t. More »
