The Triumphs and Tribulations of Wiz

Got a new DG834GT yesterday and plugged it in and got it all set up and working last night once I did that I did a test on xbox live and found that I had a moderate NAT. So I did a bit of digging and found that I had to let the xbox live connection through the firewall so I set it up a static IP and sorted all the firewall rules out and tested again and low and behold I had an open NAT. I thought finally I will be able the play on xbox live against all people.

Then I loaded it up today and thought just for the sheer hell of it I'll do a network test and marvel at the fact I have an open NAT. Test came back that I have a moderate NAT again.

So I tested it a few ways round. First I looked at the router setup page and found that UPnP was on and changed Ad Time to 1 minute and time to live to 10 in the hope that it would pick up my xbox but it didn't. My xbox also wasn't apearing in the port map table. But not to be disappointed and just to be sure I added a few new services to the firewall, the ports that xbox live needs. and I test again but still a moderate NAT so I turn UPnP off and still a moderate NAT. Turning the firewall off I get a strict NAT so the firewall is letting data through but UPnP is not working.

How do I get UPnP to work again?

P.S. I have done multiple cold boots to flush out the UPnP but to no avail

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I thought this was fitting due to my last post, this was an email I just got



Dear Friend,

I want to thank you one and all for the e-mails you have forwarded to me over the past year.

I must send a big thank you to whoever sent me the one about rat shit in the glue on envelopes, because I now have to use a wet sponge with every envelope that needs sealing.

Also, I now have to wipe the top of every can I open for the same reason.

I no longer have any savings because I gave it all to a sick girl
(Penny Brown) who is about to die in the hospital for the 1,387,258th time.



But that will change once I receive the £15,000 that Bill
Gates/Microsoft are sending me for participating in their special email programmes.



Or from the senior bank clerk in Nigeria who wants to split
seven million pounds with me for pretending to be a long lost relative of a customer who died intestate.

I no longer worry about my soul because I have 363,214 angels looking out for me.

I have learned that my prayers only get answered if I forward emails to seven friends and make a wish within five minutes.

I no longer drink Coca-Cola because it can remove toilet stains.

I no longer can buy petrol without taking a friend along to watch the car so a serial killer won't crawl in my back seat when I'm filling up.

I no longer go to shopping centres because someone will drug me with a perfume sample and rob me.

I no longer answer the phone because someone will ask me to dial a number and then I'll get a phone bill with calls to Jamaica , Uganda , Singapore and Uzbekistan , and even Falkirk

I can't use anyone's toilet but mine because a big brown African spider is lurking under the seat to cause me instant death when it
bites my bum.

I can't even pick up the £5.00 I found dropped in the car park because it probably was placed there by a sex molester waiting underneath my car to grab my leg.

If you don't send this email to at least 144,000 people in the next 70 minutes, a large dove with diarrhoea will shit on your head at 5:00pm this afternoon and fleas from 12 camels will infest your back passage, causing you to grow a hairy hump.

I know this because it actually happened to a friend of my next door neighbour's ex-mother-in-law's second husband's cousin's
beautician.

By the way....a South American scientist after a lengthy study has discovered that people with low IQ always
read their emails while holding the mouse.

PS: don't bother taking your hand off now, it's too late

Regards,

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Hey it is tara and john the directors of MSN, sorry for the interruption but
msn is closing down. this is because too many inconsiderate people are
taking up all the name (eg making up lots of different accounts for just one
person), we only have 578 names left. If you would like to close your
account, DO NOT SEND THIS MESSAGE ON. If you would like to keep your
account, then SEND THIS MESSAGE TO EVERYONE ON YOUR CONTACT LIST. This is no
joke, we will be shutting down the servers. Send it on, thanks. WHO EVER
DOES NOT SEND THIS MESSEAGE, YOUR ACCOUNT WILL BE CLOSED AND YOU WILL COST
10.00 A MONTH TO USE. SEND THIS TO EVERYONE ON YOUR CONTACT LIST. NOW YOU
KNOW WHAT TO DO. PLEASE DO NOT FORWARD THIS or REPLAY. COPY THE WHOLE EMAIL.
GO BACK TO YOUR INBOX AND CLICK ON NEW. AND PASTE THANK YOU FOR YOUR
ATTENTION. It's no joke if you don't believe me then go to the site
(http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/1189119.stm and see for yourself.
Anyways once you've sent this message to at least 18 contacts, your msn dude
will become blue

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So, as you may or may not know, I got paid last week for the work I did for Mum in her office and it was burning a hole and I had been wanting to buy a new camera for some time now. So I finally put my Money where my mouth is, and bought a Nikon D40.
The camera arrived on wednesday and I have not stopped using it ever since. It is a really nice camera to hold, not to heavy but not going to float away and the grip on it makes it easy to hold one handed. Programmed auto is good but now I now need to learn how to set up the shot to make them better. I have uploaded a few of my photos to my flickr here with all the photos before my Halo 3 shots being ones taken on my D60. The camera itself is 6.3mp which is good, there really isn't any need for more as I will not be blowing pictures up bigger than A3 and so do not need the resolution. The lens is a good starter lens, 18-55mm lens, but it doesn't have vibration redution/image stabilization and so shots can get quite blurry at longer exposure lengths.
But as a good camera to get into photography? Yes definitely

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At first I didn't really know what to post about and then I found this video
Man you have to be unlucky to be splattered like that. The mongoose that takes off cos of the grenade he threw flies through the air and splatters him with no one on. UNLUCKY

On another note, today was results day and I got my results, 6A*s 2As and a B, enough to get into winstanley, so that is where I am going in 10 days time. Ten days to the end of the summer holidays. This is just a random post as you can tell, I am going to try and post every other day but when I said that last time it failed so anyway.

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I have started using swapgame again to rent games for the past few weeks of the summer holidays as they decided to give me a month half price. Anyway, first game that I got was Burnout Paradise and what a good game I got. It is just the same as most other burnout games and takes place in Paradise city. For the past few days I have had lots of fun playing it, there is lots of depth with over 75 cars to unlock and 120 different events to compete in. Even if you don't like racing then there is definitely something that you can do. I personally found the road rages to be great fun just trying to find the heaviest car and deliberately forcing your opponents off the road is satisfyingly good if not a bit nerve racking, wrecking your car also means you damage it and wreck it too often and you lose the event. Then there are 0ther events such as stunt runs and marked mans where you have to get to a place with out being taken down by other drivers, sounds easy it is not. Burning Routes are effectively time trials across the city and traffic on the roads makes it very difficult to go anywhere fast without wrecking. You are also rewarded with nitrous for other things like driving down the oncoming lane or air time. The graphics are also really good with cars looking extra good and handling really well, even the 4x4s. There is no difficulty setting so as you win more events then the cars get more harder to beat and you then have to start looking for shortcuts. But this is where the game falls down, I never played online so I am just guessing from first player experience, as cars get more difficult you need to look for the shortcuts, down railways, through building yards etc, and now a fun game where you could just go round smashes cars suddenly need hardcore deddication to learn a lot of the shortcuts to be able to make it to the finish line. Aswell, races started in the city and while there were only 8 locations on the map that they could finish in, many times the finish was in the mountains, miles away from the next event that you wanted to do, so you would race to the mountains and then get bored or sidetracked on the way back. But other than that it is a very good game with gamerscore given out regularly and rewarding you if you put the effort in to the game.
However I do believe that after a few days the game does get very repetative with the same types of events even if they finish in different places. So, to sum up, a very good game to rent for 5 days, and some easy gamerscore to achieve but I would not recommend buying it simply because it gets very repetative and quite tedious after a few days play.

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