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Tested streaming with ps4 downloading. I still get A+ A+ A+ for all 3 at 90%. Done some further tests. Streaming amazon prime (through a vpn this time), 1080p youtubevideo, downloading on ps4... A+ A A+ - still at 90%. Maybe the culpirt is not the ps4 downloading but someone having torrents on the go... gonna have to monitor my network for when it happens and run tests again because it happens a fair few times a week. Would setting it to 70-70 keep one stream going and ps4 playing a game whilst someones torrenting? It's usually the same person in the house and they just dont care.

Thanks man, yeah it's such a tease - its just too expensive to lay the cables for my side of the road I presume. I think 5g will get here before fibre in all honesty. Yeah most gaming doesnt use a lot of bandwidth, however Destiny is a monster when it comes to bandwidth. To enable two people to play at once I've had to get business ADSL with an annex M add-on to get around 1.9mbs upload as the .775 kbps before was enough to play 3v3 solo but not enough to play 6v6 due to bandwidth used when playing 6v6, it was a nightmare. Then you add two people trying to play together and 3v3 was the only option. I pay the same price as a fibre connection unfortunately and have 16mbs down 1.9 up - which isnt the worst connection but it doesnt support 3 people trying to stream at once.

Yeah - the steaming devices and consoles are hardwired direct to the duma, I made cables and ran them everywhere as im a snob who hates wireless. The wifi channels are already manually set to the least congested, was the first thing I did setting it up. I've got devices spread across the 2.4ghz and 5ghz bands too. I will however check again as the neighbours may have changed devices since to will look into that but for the streaming devices they are cabled up anyway. The only devices in hyperlane are two ps4's which if they are downloading are removed. I did a quick test now, with multiple people in the house and one person streaming it looks like this currently with 90/90 and get A+ A+ A+ for overall, bufferbloat and quality. To re-create the conditions I will force the ps4 to download and re-test later on to see how it changes and see if I can get to the bottom of it. Thanks for the assistance.

The problem is if I use reactive when someones downloading and then my in game connection suffers, im only on 16mb adsl so was told pre-emptive was better for slower connections. I'm almost at the point of just getting a new phone line installed and having it only for the ps4 but it seems overkill. I dont have the option of fibre here in London unfortunately it's also not in the pipeline at my address. It's been about 10 metres away for 5 years. Edit: I usually use pre-emptive.

Hello there. I've tried searching the forum for a similiar answer but couldnt find one. My setup is ISP modem in bridge > Netduma > Seperate router handling 5ghz and 2.4ghz wifi The separate router has been setup as an access point, DHCP off, reserved IP etc. Most devices on my network have reserved IP's, with 101>199 allocated for when random guests join the network. The duma works for me playing games whilst people stream, that is fine. A problem I run into a lot is if a game is doing an update on the ps4, nobody else can stream. When I update I remove hyperlanes, set ps4 to 0 on the share flower and give the streaming devices either 50-100% priority with share excess. However devices still can't stream whilst it update and upload/download caps are in place. Me only option is to pause the download and do it when everyones asleep which is not ideal. I've tried setting the bandwidth caps to 70-80-90 and no beuno. Another problem I run into is if a random housemate decides to torrent something educational presumably, the whole network again cant stream or watch youtube videos in low quality either. Even with priorty of 50%-100% (usually start with 50 then move up to 100) the connection is 16mb download so 100% download on a streaming device should have way more than it needs for the quality options selected. I cant really stop them downloading but I can't seem to manage it very well on the netduma for general purposes other than gaming. I'm at the point where I'm wondering if im doing something wrong and why everything chokes when someones torrenting or the ps4 starts to download. I would block peer 2 peer ports from the ISP level but I'd rather just be able to ensure bandwidth on the other devices with downloading having the lowest priority. Just looking for advice/suggestions for non gaming/general usage as above. I've played around with multiple settings and ideas but cant seem to stop downloads throttling the network.

If it's backing up to iCloud, that causes me problems. Everytime a phone in my house does an upload to icloud the network gets over-run probably because it's maxing my adsl upload. Everything stops working. Check your network monitor whilst its happening to see if the imac has traffic coming from/to it. Also if you just mean general interference and your controller is wireless and uses bluetooth like the ps4...if my mac is near the ps4 it can interfere with my controller due to bluetooth and wifi operating on similar frequencies and it was incredibly frustrating until I figured it out.

Nice to hear about an update, super excited about this! Looking forward to the beta.

Thanks again Fraser, email sent just now.

Sorry this was incredibly long between replies. Wifi issue seems to have been resolved, not sure what I did but I did factory reset everything so that probably helped. Power supply is making noises, I did a crude test for RFI using an AM radio and the power supply gives off a crazy amount of interference. The reason for me testing was because my adsl is disconnecting constantly and a REIN engineer is on the case from BT and if the cause if found to be internal then I have to pay a lot of money for engineer fee's. Tested with an alternate power supply and no RFI, I'm looking to source a new power supply as the other one is powering my access point. I can only audibly hear the PSU when next to it, I have no way of testing it otherwise. Is it possible to send me another psu to compare it? I'll send this one back to you too to have a look at. I really need to set up email alerst for when someone replied!

Actually 2 more things whilst I'm here and posting - not stopping me from doing anything but 2 annoying things... 1. Dumas wifi just seems to stop working for 5 minutes at a time all the time on all devices but wired devices are unaffected, can't even get into the interface. Is this a known issue or just something with mine? I have a lot of wireless clients however the other cheap AP I have doesnt have this issue. I've been getting around it using a separate AP which suits me fine but would be good to use duma for 2.4ghz and the cheap AP for 5ghz. I have looked into this before but in the end just leave the wifi off. Not sure why it would do this. 2. My power supply makes a buzzing sound that goes up and down, I notice this whenever I'm plugging something into it - is this normal? I can probably record it actually.. Also thanks for the quick replies!

Yeah I realised that - I have everything written down so it's just a case of me setting it all up again and being careful, it would be good to have a backup or a way to revert a change as this is the second time I have accidentally done this but I suppose most people wont be creating home networks as complicated as mine. I realise now this is more of a bug report than a support request. Also thanks for the reply, I thought I would just post it as useful information incase someone else accidentally does the same thing and wonders what went wrong. A downloadable backup would be an awesome feature, it's just time saving if you mess something up.

Hi there, last night whilst setting up port forwarding for my raspberry pi I accidentally (I was very tired) set up the same static IP twice on my PI on two different interfaces. I had setup the wifi interface first whilst I was testing ssh/ssl/vnc connections, all worked good however I wanted to have this permanently on a wire closer to the router. I then plugged it in to the router and then instead of giving the lan interface it's own IP I accidentally used the same one as the wifi, it allowed me to do this and then all hell broke loose. I'm not quite sure exactly what happened but DHCP seemed to not work properly and was giving out some wild IP addresses on different subnets and I couldn't connect to the router without manually setting up IP on clients, I could no longer connect to the internet via the duma also. I deleted the new static IP but the previous one setup seemed to remain hidden. This was the point I just reset the duma to factory and all was good again, however now I have a tonne of nameless devices on my network and have to setup all my settings and port forwarding again. So - is there a way to save a configured netduma router incase of pain when IP. ( I'll show myself the door for that.... ) p.s. I know the duma doesn't let you choose the same IP twice when reserving IP's but for some reason it works on the same client once you change interface which really messed it up for me. Edit: Not sure where I should have posted this if here was the right place. For reference my setup is: ZyXxel VMG8924 (modem/router - in bridge mode with adsl grouped to lan1 so lan4 can go back to modem to access on lan from 192.168.88.3) Netduma on current firmware Coredy AC1200 wifi repeater (2.4 and 5ghz wifi running off this) There are about 30 devices in my house, not all on at the same time.