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I just got a linksys befsx41 router today, and im having a hell of a time getting it to work. I have followed exactly what the manual said and then hooked it up to the PS2 console. I turn on the game and start playing, but for some strange reason the game keeps crashing on me. So, I called up POL customer service to see if I could get some help. The guy told me I had to use port fowarding in order for it to work, and gave me TCP 1024-65535 UDP 50000-65535 as the ports I should use with my PS2. I reconfigured the router and logged back on, but still get the same problem. I am able to play for 5-6 mins and then I get a d/c. Can I get some help? Please...

Just because above poster has problem playing FFXI using a Linksys router doesn't mean the rest of the world does, gets on my nerves when I see people say this. Anyway, I've been playing since NA launch using this same Linksys router, model WRT54G and never have any problems.

/shurg

I used to use a linksys router. I started having tons problems with frequent d/cs, which was helped but not completely fixed by updating the firmware. About a month ago I went ahead and switched to a new DLink router, and haven't had any problems since. I went from d/cing about once or twice a week (after updating to the latest firmware) to not d/cing once in over a month.

*Edit: I've also known at least 3 other people in my linkshell that had similar problems with linksys routers, and are much more stable now using other brands.*

Edited, Wed Jun 22 08:35:38 2005 by Hripthe

I'm a recovering Linksys user...I had a...hell, I don't remember, it was a combo router and 11 mbps 802.11b access point. I could never stay connected for more than 10 minutes. The only way I could even get on was to open all the ports they mentioned on SE's site, and disabling most of the security stuff. Now I'm just running server with ICS and DHCP, which works wonderfully.

Lucfive: read the bold please. If yours is working for you inm glad you have had to go through this hassle. What you said didnt really help his problem. I suggested my solution for problem after all I went through w/ my Linksys router.

Calispark: Try this: Go into the router settings and change the default gateway from 192.168.1.1 to something like 192.168.1.3 . This how I got my PS2 to work w/ the router when the problems started arising. But now if you have a comp hooked which reads the default gateway as 192.168.1.1 will not be able to go online till you change it back .

This doesnt really solve the problem just goes around it. but itll get you on(at least it did for me).

I hate seeing that damn 3113, 4001, and 4002 error codes><

Here are some links I found in the tech support forum that all have two things in common , PS2 and Linksys routers.
One of em might have an option that you havent tried

http://ffxi.allakhazam.com/forum.html?forum=25&mid=1117649893736843297&num=4

http://ffxi.allakhazam.com/forum.html?forum=25&mid=1106064916524522787&num=11

http://ffxi.allakhazam.com/forum.html?forum=25&mid=1102196335258883108&num=8

http://ffxi.allakhazam.com/forum.html?forum=25&mid=110205425131668081&num=4

http://ffxi.allakhazam.com/forum.html?forum=25&mid=110028731878062516&num=0

http://ffxi.allakhazam.com/forum.html?forum=25&mid=1100151418889964982&num=0

I was having somewhat the same problem.. This is what I did:

*Unplug the Modem, Router, and PC
*Connect everything up (leaveing it powered down)
*Power up the Modem (Wait until all/any lights have stopped flashing and it is up)
* Power up the Router
* Power up your pc
*turn on your ps2

You should not have this problem after that. When this was happening to me it turned out to be an IP issue. My router was not pulling my IP address from my modem.

Edited, Thu Jun 23 10:20:14 2005 by RdmKelton