Maniaplanet Optimization Ports

[MY573210]

Hey all,

I am trying to optimize maniaplanet performance under QoS (Quality of Service) on my router, and I was curious as to whether or not anyone knew which specific maniaplanet ports I would use for this. Not that it really matters, but I'm using a pretty standard Linksys router and am navigating to QoS under the Applications & Gaming tab of my router's settings page.

Any and all help would be greatly appreciated
-Ivan

[Alinoa]

You can find information on the maniaplanet wiki
And the server ports to open are 2350 and 3450.

[MY573210]

Thanks so much for the link and your help.

[Slig]

Well, do you mean QoS for a dedicated that you host ?
or QoS for your game ?

For your own locally hosted dedicated, you are supposed to know the ports that you use

For other servers on which you connect with your game, it's more complicated : most good servers (ie those rent with a real good connection), several dedicated are hosted on the same server, so most of them won't use the default ports.
You can only suppose that most of them will use :
- main game port: 2350 to 2350+100 (udp and tcp)
- p2p port: 3450 to 3450+100 (tcp)
(and if you want more chances, increase the range to +200 or +300)

Also, by default your game will use local 3450 (tcp) for the p2p (when other players game contact your game p2p), so a lower QoS priority on this one is probably not bad.

Btw, the 1st thing is to check that the configured max upload/download values in your game are below the bandwidth really usable by the game on your connection. Once that is ok you can eventually think about QoS...

[MY573210]

Thanks for your in-depth reply. The post was originally intended to improve PLAYING performance while JOINING servers, not hosting them, so you're descriptions were especially helpful. I've messed with max allotted up/down and will continue to fiddle with it to get the best results. I'm contending with someone in the house that doesn't understand how streaming affects general bandwidth. The easiest solution would be to buy a baseball bat, but I'm trying to take the more civilized route. Lol.

-Ivan

[Slig]

Wouldn't it be easier to use QoS per IP, and so get a minimum guaranteed bandwidth on yours (then consider those values for the max up/down in the game config) ?

[MY573210]

I prioritized my MAC address as well as the specific ethernet ports out of which I was routing, but it wasn't giving me the results that I'd wanted, so I was hoping I could enter the specific maniaplanet ports under the "game optimization" section. Still fiddling with it, and we'll see how it goes.