I unfortunately have a 768k internet connection and i experience lagg under download... and my uploads slow too..

Just run the cable from the modem into the uplink port.. You will see 1 2 3 4 on the back and the last may not be labeled and its separated from the other 4.. Thats your uplink from the modem.

After then you have to know if you have a PPPoE ISP, or DHCP or one of the various.. It will then set itself up automatically.. Manual configuration is tricky, if you don't know what your looking for.

Follow the instructions.

A routers a router, there shouldnt be an XBOX live ready router.. Thats just stupid who wrote that.

 

everything works now I apparently have a dynamic IP but thought I had a static

 

I'm technology retarded too so we will probably understand each other. If you buy what I posted your set. You take the ethernet cable from your modem and plug it into that black wireless route i posted into a port called internet. Run the setup disc etc and your set. Then there are 4 ports. Take another ethernet wire and plug it into either 1-4 and plug the other end into your xbox. And your done

 

There are certain routers that don't work well with xbox live due to strict NAT settings that cannot be fixed no matter how much port-forwarding, firewall disabling, static ip adressing you do.

 

Ohh yeah! That does ring a bell.. I think its a matter with the MTU packet sizing.. Like linksys reccomends u lower it lower than 1500 to increase network speed slightly because it lowers packet sizes coming in. Okay, I forgot that.

 

Packet size doesn't help with Xbox live. The only way I can get my Netgear to work is to port forward like 15 different ports and then to reset my router everytime before I get on xbox live.