Riven

I agree with you on that, there is very little info on the server list screen. Fortunately I'm still at the stage where I'm just happy to play any match that is low on lag, so long as it's not one of those 2.5 hour matches that seem to pop up now and then!

I'm having a great time with Killzone 2 in both single and multiplayer, which makes me happy seeing as I bought my PS3 for that game. In some ways I expected the single player to be this good, but the multiplayer has really surprised me, because as a gamer in Australia I'm very used to horrible lag or having to endlessly hit refresh on some server list. So it's a great breath of fresh air that not only does this game have an active community all over the world, including Aus, but that Guerrilla actually thought to include a region selector. Those two things have meant that I've experienced no noticeable lag issues in the seven hours I've spent online so far and I can't ask for more than that. Why the hell don't more online games offer a region option, that's what I want to know!

Now you're talkin', that new Sonysoft console is exactly what we need.

The XBOX 360 is great console, which is one reason why I made it my first purchase of this generation, but also because I saw the PS3 as a somewhat redundant platform, with little to offer that Microsoft's console didn't already have and that certainly had much lacking. However with having recently bought a PS3 and experiencing it for the first time, I gotta say I'm pleasantly surprised - the thing oozes quality, both in the hardware (specs and perceived reliability) and in the slickness of the interface. I feel that the extra cost has netted me a higher end device, which also happens to have some great exclusive games that I feel make the PS3 well worth the price of admission. This is not to say I don't believe there should be a price cut of course!

Just thought I'd follow up on this thread to say that I finally solved my issues when I purchased a Belkin Wireless G router (Australian model: F5D7633au4). Other than switching on UPnP, no special setup was required on this router to make both XBOXes play online nicely (and to both have NAT results of 'Open') . I have no idea what magic this Belkin performs that my other routers didn't, all I know is I'm just going to go with it and continue praying to the networking gods that it doesn't stop working!

Well I began setting up my XBOXes with static IPs, only to discover that it is now causing them to receive a NAT result of 'Moderate' in the XBOX live connection test. So it seems that for whatever reason static IPs may make the situation worse in my case.  I'm holding out hope that I'm simply missing something in the router configuration that could solve the problem, but I'm beginning to think I'll have to take this router back for a refund and look for something else (bought it just yesterday in an attempt to fix the problem).

Felix:

Are the 360's using unique IP addresses?

Also, is the router connected to a computer as well, or directly to your modem/internet connection?

Plus, I assume you are using a wired connection right?