From the course: Firewall Administration Essential Training
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Troubleshoot gaming performance
From the course: Firewall Administration Essential Training
Troubleshoot gaming performance
- [Instructor] Online gaming is no joke Games and the study of gameplay options, strategies, and techniques is big business. Frequently strict NAT, traffic shaping, deprioritization, and other firewall settings can get in the way of optimum gameplay performance. I have a couple of avid gamers in the house. And while preparing to author this course, I had the opportunity to experiment extensively with their multiplayer gaming capabilities. First let's talk about NAT. Something called strict NAT refers to UPnP and NAT-PMP settings that we see here in Services UPnP and NAT-PMP. Apple gaming and PC gaming as well as consoles that do fast-paced, massive online multiplayer action depend highly on having superfast speeds with low latency back to the servers on which you play. Players frequently talk about having super high ping without really knowing what that is. But you can learn a lot from a gamer about network latency and the importance of high speed UDP connection states and the ability…
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