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Just switched from my ISP modem's 5ghz signal to my Netduma's signal and my d/l went from 297mbps to 30mpbs .... is this reasonable, or are my settings flawed? Even my hardwired PS4 went from ~200ish to ~30-40ish, which seems very wrong considering it's a wired connection. I mothballed the R1 about 6 months ago because it was a bigger pain in the ass than it was worth, and I'm already regretting my decision to plug it back in. Praying your new OS is truly a 'revolution' ....

Took me a while, but the post is up - thanks again http://forum.netduma.com/topic/21229-why-does-my-r1-randomly-think-im-in-europe/

No I wouldn't say so. Generally speaking I play ~3 games without issue, but then once this issue arises I cannot find a match at all as I watch the padlocks show up and then some random yellow exclamation marks popping up on the P2P European hosts that are outside of my range. I cannot find another match-up unless I disable the geo-filter, and then I get matched with a European guy and the in-game ping indicator shows poor connection so I obviously don't play. I then leave the filter off, shut down and relaunch the game, and re-enable the filter once the game is fully loaded... then I'm back in good shape for ~3 games. Edit - tonight, I can't even load an initial game. Straight to padlocks... I've been idling online without the geofilter on for a few hours, then just flipped it on and tried to find a game with no luck. Also, new padlock ID on westcoast USA today: ac9fdca73c4b9499 Europe padlock ID is the same as yesterday.

No problem Westcoast USA padlock ID ac9fecb73c4b9499 European padlock ID 859f713c3c249499 The first European exclamation mark to show up had the ID of 5b50a46fedfad4d9 Cheers

I've experienced the issue at all times of day. I'm very confident it's not a user-population issue, because as quickly as I can reboot the game, I can get matched with countless opponents within my geo filter. The issue generally appears after approx 1-1.5hr of game time. Once it flairs up, it never goes back to matching me with local opponents, it just keeps showing the padlock, and then a yellow exclamation mark on whatever dude in Europe it tried to match me with

Hi Fraser, Jack To confirm, the following configurations have been unsuccessful - approx 1hr into gaming, I get re-routed to all Euro hosts. On the bright side, I've found that turning off geo-location and just closing/re-opening NHL 17 remedies it, so that's slightly faster than a full PS4 reboot. - Ping assist 0, Strict, Bleeding Edge on - Ping assist 0, Strict, Bleeding Edge off - Ping assist 25, Strict, Bleeding Edge on - Ping assists 25, Strict, Bleeding Edge off What does that grey padlock represent? Is the R1 having a conversation with the EA servers that eventually leads me to being soft-banned, or something along those lines? Happy to try any other configuration changes that might solve this. Cheers

Jack suggested to remove it. In any case, I had it set to 25ms and 30ms with bleeding edge off, before reporting this issue in this thread. I'll try it back on with bleeding edge on as well.

Ah ok, thanks for the info Jack. Unfortunately your previous suggestion didn't change things at all. Below is a screenshot of my geolocation page when the issue arises... usually, that padlock image is on the west coast of the states, which is where one of EA's servers is located... I believe they have another one in Ireland, which is likely what this padlock is representing. Any other insights/suggestions?

Thanks for the suggestions Jack, I'll try those and changes and let you know what happens. For my own curiosity, is there are more in-depth info on what the "cloud" settings are all about? Cheers

Overall, the router works like a charm for NHL 17 which is a P2P game... but every hour or so, I suddenly start getting matched with European opponents despite being located in Toronto, Canada. The only remedy is to turn off geolocation, turn off strict mode, restart my console and re-enable those settings once I'm back in the game. Certainly an inconvenience and time wasting effort that I'd like to avoid if possible. FWIW - under misc settings, I have autocloud on, but bleeding edge off... the description of bleeding edge worried me, since NHL was never formally confirmed as being setup for geolocation. Also, something else I've noticed is that upon adding a host to the "deny" list post-game, I often get re-matched up with them again shortly thereafter... does it take a specific amount of time for those configurations to begin to "work"?