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That would explain some things, I've had netgear products for around 7 years and never knew this bit of information, thank you.

that is kind of what i am saying, even when manually set and a router reboot it still assigns the basic 192.168.77.1 for DNS.

@Netduma Frasermy devices? it will always give my devices the default router nameserver 192.168.77.1, which is fine as far as performance but wonder what is causing it. In my time of owning Netgear and Netduma equipment (ye, I know they are seperate entities) it has always been this way. Do you recommend maybe not using the default router/modem combo and buy my own modem?

For some reason, my R2 will not use the DNS from ISP even when i manually put them in on the WAN Network tab. Is there a workaround or maybe is anyone aware of a problem that could be causing this? @Netduma FraserI see a lot of videos speaking of disabling ipv6, i think my experience is better with it on, im on xbox series x. Also any feedback would be appreciated as always. 🙏

thank you @Netduma Fraseri appreciate your feedback.

thank you for the response. Just out of curiousity, you do not recommend using the Auto-Setup, what do you recommend to do to figure out what the appropriate % are on the congestion. Do you think I should keep it ticked to "always". Should I use the wheel?

Sorry to just now be getting back on this @Netduma Fraser, i see people on the internet suggest not lowering Upload due to lag compensation? Can you elaborate more on why to or not to lower the upload, please.

This is great advice, I've been looking for feedback regarding speeds similar to this. Cable internet is the worst when it comes to limiting upload bandwith. I currently have 950 down and 24 up, so I'm assuming I should probably utilize my QOS. I've tinkered with a lot of things and totally see where the QOS will add latency sometimes.

Thanks for the feedback @Netduma Fraser, just out of curiosity, are you familiar with Xfinity internet? Not sure if they are overseas. Within their app, they allow you to do a test and see what your speed to your gateway currently is, this is not a "speedtest". However, I see in all videos regarding you all's product that users are to do a speedtest to calculate the speeds, but you guys at netduma also recommend if you know your speed to just go off of that. Im asking because I get a little bit different speeds when i do each test. It shows arround 960 down and about 23.7 up in the gateway test but in the speedtest it says 943 down and 24 up. Any insight? Thank you!

Xfinity internet 950 download, 24 mb upload R2 router Cat6 cables Xbox series X console First off, just want to thank you guys for all the hard work you all do for the community and industry. I usually am pretty critical of the team/product when I post on twitter and that is not at a representation of how I feel about the people who do the work or even the people in the community who come and post feedback and criticisms. Having said that, firmware 3.3.280 is a masterpiece in my opinion, comparatively speaking to the other updates. Everything is much more in tune and operates as intended. The stability is great with the exception of the litle pingmap issue where the cloud wouldn't load even after reboots last week that seems to have worked itself out. I do have some questions on server tick rate and such regarding smaller games that dont have the server standard i guess as other games. Like mlb the show servers tick rate never exceeds 10 and sometimes will shoot to 0 while call of duty warzone will stay around 20 the entire match. Also, the servers will disappear on the mlb game and youll have to reload the Geo-filter page while Call of duty maintains that steady read of ping without having to reload my page. Any feedback there? Maybe the game is smaller and therefore cant afford the higher quality servers? Second, I have been experimenting with speedtests, cat5e, cat6 ethernet, connection benchmark tests, bufferbloat tests from waveform, auto-setup in the bufferbloat page and the ping optimization page on the mobile version but on desktop. All this to narrow down and connection and understand my own connection better. For years I just tried to make it the best overall conenction where everyone has diiferent experiences, cable or fiber, etc. instead of just focusing on my own. So, when i use my equipment, I have my xfinity router that comes with their service and place it in bridge mode with my r2. I get 950 mbps down, 24 mbps up when not in bridge mode using the xfinity router/modem combo as intended to be used in a normal household. When I use my r2 and have the router/modem in bridge mode, i get about 940 down, 24.2 up. This is interesting. I tinker with speed by overshooting, I will set download to 1000 and upload to 30 and run tests just to maximize the speed to see. So, I then run an auto-setup, it defaults to 100% down and 81% up (which is 24.3), 80% would be the 24 mbps. I play games, and it is great sometimes but others, not. Same with the setting at what my original test gives me at 24 mbps. Runs well sometimes but not others. I never really adjust my congestion wheel because I read that is doesn't matter sometimes. I tinker with it but after a few hours or a day I go back because it will start running strange. I also set my MTU to the default xfninty MTU 1500 and things seems to run fine where I felt sometimes when I wouldn't set it, it would run slow/clunky. Any feedback would be appreciated or just general feedback.