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holy crap the screenshots are useless, the forum reduced them to junk ... no Armour, no DMZ, only had QoS an Geo-Fence set for the 3 NAE Fortnite servers. No other rules, etc, other than what the router does by default via the Nighthawk app and or stock behavior of the firmware. I have done a factory reset, and about 8 different ways to try to isolate it. as both CONSOLE and COMPUTER under Geo-Fence. I tried it Geo-Fence with my computers as a device: COMPUTER and all the steps listed in first post. Then tried Geo-Fence with the computers set as device: CONSOLE/ PLAYSTATION and all the testing steps. I then did a factory reset, setup the router as New Out of Box with the Nighthawk App(Annoying AF), and tested again with my PCs set as device: CONSOLE in Geo-Fence and still the same results. So now it is back to devices as COMPUTERS, and QoS is set to: By DEVICE, not By APPLICATION. and my two computers have all of the Bandwidth. while it sort of works, it is not making the gaming data priority, it is still FIFO of the queue as delivered to my IP Address and then handled by the router. Something changed, either on Epic Games side with fortnite, the NetDuma side or both around the patch right before Fortnite went to Season 4. All that I do know, at this point, is my XR1000 is not doing much for my Fortnite latency or keeping me locked to the servers I want now. Straight up, I have worked on this almost every night since I noticed it right around September 11th or so.

I have tried it both as a Computer, and as a Console. Since Sept 7th I do not see any Fortnite Servers while in a game public lobby in Battle Royale or in Save the World. I originally had it setup and working out of the box since June of this year. I had Geo-Fencing enabled. My two computers had a 'DEVICE TYPE' of Computer. I have a PC for streaming and a PC for gaming. QoS was configured to be Auto-Enabled, and Goodput was ENABLED, and using Applications. My WAN is 1Gbit fiber. This worked perfectly until Sept 7th. Now I have to set QoS to Devices and split my bandwidth to each computer. Now my Gaming packets are not being pushed to front of the queue.

noticed that my Geo-Filter was not working just after Epic Games updated Fortnite to v21.51(Chapter3Season3 on Sept 7th). I was no longer able to see what servers I was attached to in Battle Royale or Save the World. Prior to the update in Fortnite to v21.51. The 'Geo-Fence' worked extremely well when it was ENABLED in the XR1000. It would keep me locked into the NAEast Match Making Region and my pings were always so much better. When it was running. I would not have noticed that it was not working except that the 'Creative Mode - SypherPK's Pit' would lag supper bad. I logged into the router and Geo-Fence did not show any servers on the Geo-Fence Map. I held off doing anything with the XR1000 Settings that first night I noticed it, and just gave it a restart after my session that night. Next day same thing, so I started to try things and google searches ... So digging into the router I noticed in Network Monitor that Fortnite was not showing as gaming and I had a large chunk of packets that were Unknown or Unrecognized. This was the Fortnite data. I then tried what I had found in another thread before I had an account, and the chaos I had creating an account and the verification email. lol Quit the application/game/client completely Remove device from the Geo-Filter Give PC PlayStation Device Type in the Device Manager (if on PC) Resync from the Geo-Filter Map menu Re-add the device to the Geo-Filter with the manual option Set up the Geo-Filter how you like Wait 2 minutes Boot up application/game/client I have also tried I have tried to 'ReSync Cloud' via DeviceManager, Geo-Filter, & Ping Heat Map, as well as removing my PCs, clearing the rules, and setting QoS and GeoFence to defaults. Waiting a minimum of 2 minutes or overnight before adding the PCs back into into QoS and Geo-Fence and then trying again. Each thing I tried I always ended up with the same results, Fortnite as 'unknown data'. I have reloaded the defaults twice to try and force the XR1000 to see if I had some corrupted code in the rules or elsewhere. Each time I did something and tested, Fortnite game data still showed up as Unknown. HELP~!