actually according to PSN the ports you're opening are on your router and they supposedly loosen your router's firewall to allow full streaming through the net.....

Do you live in apt's, condo's????

if in a house it might actually help....like i said i think my number of neighbors are what limits my bandwidth abilities.....you know the whole bottlenecking aspects from old school interneting ifn's that's a word....

Hmmmm.....I stay in an apt.

~Goodz~

Then you have TWs upgraded package huh? that's what allows you to have the amount in your rooms that you have, see though you gotta pay for that priority service, your bottleneck isn't as congested, however if everyone around you decided to upgrade their service along with ya you would notice a drop in quality, Cause as far as i know everyone around me has TW. with a few satellite exceptions i think if you add everyone in my area up just the nine surrounding blocks mind you cause that's what cable does bring it into an area on one line, if you were to divide that one line into a thousand house holds, this is just the 9 blocks surrounding me mind you, the service is degraded, now multiply that by another 12 neighborhood blocks to one side and 14 blocks that aren't apart of apt row just residential homes, it's even more degraded. but not so much so that you can complain about it because it's within specs for what your home is supposed to get, ergo you ain't got nuttin' to complain about as far as TW's concerned. Like i said before somewhere i am sure, it was great before everyone got onto TW's service plan, we were like one of the first ppl in the neighborhood to get the all in one package and have noticed quality dropping off here recently over the past two years as everyone else is signing up due to the conversion to digital broadcasting.... sorry i know that i am long winded but like you i don't wish to be misunderstood as far as getting a point across so type on brother .... type on