RichardRO

Thank you for the suggestion. I think the development team of DumaOS did not think about people playing in a party and all the players in that party having DumaOS. I think this should be brought up and maybe there should be a third option in the Geo Filtering menu: ON, SPECTATING and "PARTY MODE" or similar. This mode should be activated by the party's host and this should choose the server based on every member of the party's ping. Where could I bring awareness of this issue? Or maybe it was discussed before. Please point me in the right direction. Thank you.

In other words I am trying to find out in a party of 2 or more from different geographical areas if only the host has the Geo Filter ON, the router checks the ping levels to match with the PA setting only for the host or for all the party members? Because if it checks only for the host it might be 30ms but some of the party members could have long 120ms with the same server and if the router says: I checked this server and it is under 30ms as required by the host than other party members would have a terrible experience. I need someone involved in the development of the Geo Filtering to explain please how are the decisions taken when you have a party of people from different geographical areas. It is a highly technical question so I think only someone involved in the design could answer possibly.....

Wooow, now I finally understand why we kept getting disconnected from each other and sometimes he could not join me or I could not join him. Anybody else from the experts that would want to advise please do. Thank you very much in advance.

We both have static ips for the ps4s and dmz enabled for those ips. Thank you fie the suggestion to have Geo filtering on only the party leader but the question would be is the other party going to suffer potentially from lag since the filtering is made only for my ip and location? In our case we are not far apart but what if we were on the west and east cost respectively? I am trying to understand the logic behind the filtering so I could better use it. If we were so far apart basically one of us would have a guaranteed chance of getting lag, right?

Yes, we have each other in the allow list. So you think we should both be set as location in the ocean and use ping assist to 30ms and disable STRICT MODE?? And with the XR1000 we could just find the good servers for both of us and draw a poligon around them and still use ping assist to 30ms?? With STRICT MODE ON or OFF?

Because he is in Arizona and the closest server is in Southern California he is extending to the same area as mine but lately I discovered that using ping assist and seeing my location in the ocean works better but really I am open to get suggestions on how to setup for the best possible game and also increase the speed of finding a game but not compromising on lag. We have both also ordered the XR1000 so maybe you could help us with setting those up. Thank you.

I am curious how the hero filtering works when I am connected with a friend in a party and both have XR500 and are playing Call of Duty. It seems like every time we play together or is harder to find games. At have the same Geo filtering settings but I a in Los Angeles and he is in Scottsdale, AZ. It is interesting to know how the whole thing works behind the scene so I could improve the playing.