Tommo1987

How do you enable steady ping on XR500? thanks

Is it still best to connect to Kenya, Egypt, India etc or are you better to connect to a country that is around 2-6am?

Sorry if this is a silly question, but can all of these settings be mirrored on the XR500?

So….I’ve been geo fencing just UK servers in Warzone and turned strict mode on. Sometimes I get 20 ping lobbies but other time it’s 30 ping plus. I thought the ring fence would mean it would force the severs in the geo fence and therefore in reality all lobbies should be the 20 ping lobby? If anybody could clarify that would be much appreciated.

Oh yeh I agree about the bot lobby thing. Found my mw3 multiplayer experience to be decent since setting the vpn/geo this way.

Out of interest do you choose a Vpn location based on the time of day in that location or just use the favoured India/Egypt ones?

Hi Everyone, I have been using the Hybrid VPN set up through my XR500 on PS5 and opened the relevant ports 3074, 443, 1:65535 and the main thing that i notice is that when a server becomes available it will throw you in, therefore searching for matches feels much quicker. Without a VPN, the match search takes longer. Is this because its prioritising connection or is that SBMM kicking in? Its all up for debate but i know my thoughts. One question i do have though, is am i setting everything up correctly? In the past i have just copy and pasted the VPN config for India/Egypt into Hybrid VPN & disable Geo Filter. I find games quickly and connection is good 90% of the time. IF i set my geo fence to my home (UK), and use a VPN config from San Francisco for example, will this make the whole process more efficient or is it just adding in an extra step with little difference?

Apparently this website is essentially a NO LAG VPN equivalent which works with consoles and fully compatible with Duma OS. Has anyone tried this at all?

Could somebody please explain the most effective way for me to use my Express VPN subscription on my XR500 on Warzone 2 please? I have tried connecting to India via UK and everything says connected and my location states India in game, however these bot lobbies that people talk about must be under some hidden layer than i have yet to find! Any help much appreciated, Thanks!

For what it’s worth the Warzone servers are in such a bad way at the moment that it might not even have anything to do with your set up.

I was in this exact situation a while ago during Caldera, I bought an XR500 and already had a VPN subscription with Express. in my experience, the VPN experience that you see with the big streamers who play on PC does not reflect the experience you get on console. The reason for this I believe is there are websites out there such as No Lag VPN or SBMMOFF which they state is only compatible with PC. What I do find in some games whilst using the VPN is that you find games much quicker, so essentially what this shows is that the VPN is scrambling SBMM and putting you into the first server that comes available. Final thing is that if I was in a game that felt like a ‘bot lobby’, there would normally be 1 or 2 other teams that were major sweats! My advice is manage your expectations and don’t expect to set everything up and be in bot lobbies all the time, it just doesn’t happen.

Just ran a ping Heatmap and there is no UK server showing….is this something new and any ideas as to why the closest server for us is now France?