Crash0verride

I will try and update the firmware later. I had everything by default to start with the filter size. It was selecting servers within the filter circle. I went and changed the ping assist setting to 60MS to see what kind of connections I would get and it started selecting servers outside of the filter radius that were within the ping margins. I tried closing in the filter size radius but didn't solve the issue. I then put ping assist back to default hoping the filter radius would kick back in but it didn't. It was connecting to 3 servers outside of my preferred range but within the ping assist margins. After a reboot, it looked like it was only connecting to 1 of the unpreferred servers, a bit north of my filter circle (Chicago). I tried blocking it but it didn't take. I just started backing out of the lobby if it connected to that server. Not a huge deal, but my connection to that server just seems to be really bad for some reason. I'll do some more testing as I play this week/weekend. Atlanta seems to be my preferred server. I haven't seen a connection to Miami or Washington DC yet, but I'm on Xbox so i'm not sure if maybe not all servers are crossplay enabled or something else is happening? I know someone locally using the R2 so I will probably do some troubleshooting and compare/contrast results. I may end up resetting everything and going back to a basic geo-filter circle.

I don't think ping assist works very well. It never worked reliably on the R1 either. I used it for a bit on the R3 yesterday and it did keep the server within my ping range (60MS) but I didn't enjoy the MW3 servers that I kept getting connected to. Just too many hops away I guess and my also ping went up during some of the matches. Based on my observations over the last couple of days, you are better off setting a circle around the servers that you want to prioritize connecting to.

I had to let mine sit there for a minute before it pinged the server. Other than that, messing with the advanced settings for ping seems to break the geo filter radius a bit. I modified ping to 60MS and it started connecting to servers outside of my radius. I've only had it up and running for 48 hours so it's hard to say if there is a more optimal way to do this since some settings seem to prioritize over others. I haven't tried plotting anything yet. In other news, I was playing MW3 last night and the connection got real choppy, like hits not registering and getting hit with packet bursts. Restarting the R3 seemed to have fixed it. I presume it was from me playing with geo filter settings but it's hard to say.