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in order to take full advantage of 2 Gigabit fiber connection, you would need a router with at least 2.5 Gbps ports and computers with 2.5 Gbps ethernet ports. No game consoles or other electronic devices have faster than 1 Gbps ports. I dont think a lot of people who pay for 2 Gigabit fiber internet realize they will really never be able to take full advantage of that much bandwidth. My 1 Gigabit fiber actually comes in at 1.25 Gbps but I have exactly one device that can even see that speed! And that requires plugging it straight in the fiber gateway. The most bandwidth the R3 is going to max out at is 950 Mbps.

You can put the IP for the Default Server Internal Address. It's whatever IP the AT&T gateway auto DHCP assigned to the R3. Mine has been the same IP for the R3 since I have had it. What I did was give a limited range of DHCP addresses the AT&T gateway can give out. < 20 since I mainly use the R3 to run DHCP for all connected devices. I leave my passthrough DHCP lease time for 1 day. I have never had an issue with it. Had an R2 before and same setup. Never got disconnected. The way you have it from your screenshot is right. You just need to get the IP address to stick.

Just in case you have not tried this (I assume you know what youre doing)...set IP passthrough on DEFAULT SERVER in the ATT gateway and passthrough mode as DHCPS-fixed. make sure you assign the XR500 an IP address on the gateway's subnet so you can choose the default server internal address to be the IP address assigned to the XR500. I have had both an R2 and R3 and both have worked completely fine with this setup on the BGW-320 ATT gateway. Infact the last time I had to reboot the R3 was 3 weeks ago and that was only because i was moving the wires around. good luck

so I let ping optimizer set the congestion control automatically (99% download / 100% upload), and this was the results I got from a buffer bloat test. I don't know if that is going to be realistic, but it sure looks acceptable, and I can live with that.

I clicked on the link for the guide you sent me. PAGE NOT FOUND. Maybe you can send me another link for a page that actually loads. Thanks

I moved and have the same ISP in AT&T 1 Gb fiber. But my buffer bloat pings scores are crazy now. My actual internet speed comes in at 1.3 Gbps on the AT&T gateway but the R3 or even the R2 have NEVER detected the correct internet speeds so that is irrelevant. Safe to assume 950 Mbps is the max speed on one of the R3 ports? I've tried all the tricks guys have suggested but no luck yet in improving buffer bloat. I tried turning ping stabilizer on. Didn't help. I am connecting to games with lobby pings of 10 ms and its glitchier than ever. I think it's the Black Ops 6 engine which has affected Warzone too. It's buggy as ever. That and cheaters of course.

did the update through the UPDATE AVAILABLE prompt in Duma OS. Factory reset through Duma OS. Everything went smooth. Still does not detect proper 1 Gb fiber connection but not too concerned there. I set it to 900 Mbps both up and down. Ping optimizer still does exactly detect properly either, so I just manually set both down / up to 87% for congestion control with always on. Buffer bloat scores are A+. IPv6 showed up again on the Xbox after the factory reset. So far everything looks like everything is working fine. I recommend to anyone updating the firmware to disconnect every other single device you have connected to the router except the PC. Every time I have done this, firmware updates go smoothly. When I have not, I have had to manual factory resets to get it working properly.

which firmware are you using? try updating to one of the new beta firmwares as they do a better job at resolving the speed slow down issues. I had the same issue as you before but it is mostly gone now.

if you ran multiple speed tests, then you will have data usage. I figured it out months ago wondering the same thing you just did. Those speeds tests use quite a bit of data surprisingly. So do the buffer bloat tests. games really dont use that much data. Only downloading them does.

If you have a 500 Mbps down/up with Spectrum, you are already on their fiber network. As someone else already said, AT&T fiber starts at 300 Mbps down / up. If it is slower than that from AT&T, than it's either over coax or VDSL in other words, copper.

your ping is at 14, you can turn steady ping completely off. that's what I have done. games play fine.

If you are using a Surfboard 8200, no need to put in bridge mode because it does not have one. As someone else said above, set your congestion control to always ON and manually set your sliders to 70% for both download and upload to start off with. Do not enable speed test bypass because you want to actually see what speeds you are getting when congestion control is working properly. If your speeds are at around 70% of your max internet speed, that will be a good sign when you run the buffer bloat test.

is it me or did the Ping Optimizer actually work better on the R2 than the R3? lol

just a suggestion, but instead of making a big geofence box, keep it smaller to the areas that would connect to the closet server to you (seattle). then make little boxes where the chicago, northern california, and utah servers are located so the game has at least 4 different servers it can look for games on. draw small square boxes so those servers are allowed. I live in the middle of the US and have drawn a box that basically connects to Dallas, Chicago, St Louis, or Atlanta servers but I drew a small box for Utah and Seattle because later at night it wont find games as easily sometimes. When I tried to create a geofence with only the Dallas server, it would take forever to find games and sometimes when it did, it would not connect to the dallas server do that was pointless. and yes I have ping assist set to ZERO. Every internet provider if different and every scenario is going to be different for each person so it may take a bit of trial and error. The DumaOS software is a nice piece of software but there are going to be places where people live that nothing is going to help them reduce their ping. Best of luck to you.

so the .236 firmware has seemed to fix this issue with the speeds going down. Been 8 days now since last update /reboot/ factory reset. Honestly I have not really played any multiplayer PVP games during this time period so if that has any effect on it whatsoever, I could not tell you.

Fraser, So 2 days later, speeds have dropped drastically. There is nothing else in my house using any bandwidth when I ran this on my desktop PC. I am going to send you the logs before I reboot the router. Maybe you can see what is causing the router to throttle speeds and let me know. Congestion control is set to 90% down /70% up and always on. Buffer bloat score is 0 or +1 ms so it's great. I have network speeds set to 850 / 850 down / up on a 950 / 950 fiber connection from ATT. I took a screenshot of the Smartboost settings. Geofilter is only setup for the Xbox. UpNp is disabled but all necessary ports are forwarded for Xbox and I get an Open NAT. IPV6 is enabled. If you need any other details, let me know. Thanks R3_2024-07-06T04_26_27.569Z_logs.txt

been 2 days so far since upgrading to .227 firmware. I would say it's working fine regarding the speeds not dropping anymore

ignore my request. i was able to get the .227 firmware from the early access forum link. updated the firmware. will let you know if I see any notable differences.

i seem to be having this same issue too. my speeds will go down to 200 Mbps down/up on my devices when i run a speed test. I randomly discovered this a couple of weeks ago because I noticed how slow the Xbox was downloading updates. It was only at 100 Mbps. Rebooting the router resolves this issue but I dont remember having this issue before the .219 firmware. I probably reboot the router every 3-4 days right now if I remember as I havent been spending as much time at home lately because of work. I am fortunate because I have a gigabit fiber connection, so it is not as easily noticeable. If you want to give me access to that early firmware, I can give it a shot and let you know the results. Thanks.

spazz on the R2, I had to set my congestion control to always on for buffer bloat to work correctly. on the R3 it's exactly opposite. Auto works way better than always on regarding buffer bloat. something obviously changed between the R2 and R3 but they provide the same result.

with the last 2 firmware .214 and .219, I have almost zero buffer bloat now. So the answer to your question may be yes but it really all depends on where you live and who your ISP is. Fiber optic connections are going to have less overall latency than most cable internet providers who still use coax from the node to the premise.

Sunkin, just turn steady ping off. if you have a good stable internet connection, you dont need it.

there is a COD server in Georgia. you should get a decent ping with that server living in Florida. Make your geo-filter big enough to cover up to that server and you should be good. if the Florida one is busy, you can connect to that one.

you do realize COD is made to play on crappy internet connections. always has been, always will be. most people dont have access to good internet service providers. its either lack of availability or financial constraints. and you know the saying, "if it ain't broken, don't fix it." They sell millions of copies of the same rehashed game every year and most of the public still buy it to get their COD fix. I dont know if there will ever come a time where people will stop buying COD and actually force them to make an actual good working game for the first time in a long time. I dont think we will ever see one now that Microsoft bought Activision. They have to make their money back. Gotta love all those microtransactions!

so far no different than .214. everything still seems the same which is fine because it was working fine with the .214 firmware. buffer bloat is absolutely gone since .214. ping optimizer still detects at 99% DL/ 100% UL. network speed detect is same with .219 as .214. will post more as I see any improvements from my experience.