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You guys absolutely fkin KILLED it with 4.0.540. Not sure if something was also done on Spectrum's end, but my avg latency dropped from upper 20s and mid 30s to the high teens and it's a stutter-free as ever! 500d/20u plan. I'm running an Edgerouter 4 from the modem, which handles the main QOS. As you can see, it's playing exceptionally well with my Smartboost priorities on the R3. I've been running this since it was an official update. My wifi is more stable than its ever been as well. No dropouts on wifi or ethernet either. I don't think I'm moving from this FW. Kudos, team.

I know that lol. A glitch in the software, meaning just an improper reporting: not the router physically causing me to jump across servers. And yeah it has definitely slowed down in the past few days.

Im on PC. I was just wondering if it was a glitch in the software or if it was actually happening.

Yup. Literally changing servers during the game. You can feel it, too. Hit reg will go to absolute crap. Just started noticing it since the Archie update went live. And steady ping hasn't been able to ping any servers for a few weeks.

So in BO6, I'm noticing that I'll go from Oklahoma, to Atlanta, to Chicago servers within the same game. I monitor my geofilter each game to check for ping spikes and such. 1 of 2 things ive noticed on the latest firmware. The other is that steady ping simply doesn't work for me. I never get a "stabilized" connection anymore.

Ahhh. Gotcha

Email sent! Didn't want to flood the forums but for some reason, the geofilter is reporting a Dublin connection. Problem is, I'm in the US and there's no way my ping would be that low to Ireland with coax.

I was doing some cleaning and threw away my R3 box before taking the antennae out 🤦🏿‍♂️. Is there any way I can buy more? Searches have been pretty unsuccessful.

I had it like that but the ER4 wouldn't give the WAN on the R3 an IP until I factory reset the R3. Now, I have the best of both worlds. Edge SQM and the R3 geofilter/steady ping

I'm trying to do it with an Edgerouter 4 and it's kicking my ass. Are you using the WAN port on the R3 from your Flint2?

I can't seem to get mine to function while keeping DHCP enabled on the R3. I want my edgerouter to just handle the SQM and then pass internet to the R3. I can do this by putting an Ethernet into one of the R3's LAN ports but then the R3 is basically just an AP.

Unfortunately, my entire house relies on internet to function and I'm never home alone to actually do that.

Not until recent firmware. I used to drop connection altogether with older firmware so that's a plus. Now, I just randomly lose speed and/or access to the GUI

Welp, it was fun while it lasted. Back to Cs and Bs on bufferbloat tests and getting way less throughput in said tests. I can definitely feel it in game as well. Lots of packet bursts some latency variation popups this morning. Signal to the modem is good from Spectrum

I hard reset back to factory defaults with the button on the back. Latest firmware is now running stable. NAT type is now open, internet rules seem to be working, A+ bufferbloat during testing at all times of the day, without apparent slowdowns or disconnects regardless of how many 4K steams and devices are active. I still don't have my lights back and I'm still just using the xr450 for wifi throughout the house but I can live with those 2 things as long as everything else remains smooth. I'm going to give hybrid VPN a try later with sbmmoff

The problem is that the issue comes and goes. Sometimes, I get all of my speed. Sometimes, it's less than half of what I pay for. It's random.

Always Ethernet. I'll follow up when I get off.

I was testing on Waveform and Divina. Router test is fine so, that's weird. All devices are connected to the R3. Most are wifi devices that are connecting via the 450 in AP mode bridged via ethernet to the R3. This hasnt always been a problem. I've mostly gotten consistent bufferbloat tests up until about 3 firmware updates ago. My modem is a Netgear cm2500 so no extra ISP garbage to check for.

Yeah, my throughput and bufferbloat fell off a cliff after trying .402. I have 600/20 internet with congestion set to 75/95. I'm only getting about 180 down with upwards of 300ms of bufferbloat. I thought it was my line so I checked my modem and things were fine. Chatted with spectrum and they said things were fine. Plugged the same settings into the XR450 and got an A+. But the 450 is outdated.

I'm assuming setting the sliders to 100/100 would do this. But before I go through the trouble of adding an Edgerouter between my WAN and the R3, I wanted to be sure. Performance on the R3 has been abysmal for nearly a year. Constant disconnects, wifi was so bad that I turned it off and just used an older router in AP mode over Ethernet, I randomly can't log into the OS, internet rules randomly stop working, port forwarding/upnp work when they want to, congestion control is ok at best, and my lights haven't worked since January. I'm kinda just over it and would only consider keeping the router for the geofilter at this point. I've tried all of the fixes suggested in the forums. Disabling this, disabling that, factory resets, unplugging for 10 minutes and replugging, newest firmware, reverting firmware, etc. It's something different nearly every day. I didn't spend $250 on a router to toy with it on a daily basis.

I took his console out of the DMZ and port forwarding still wasn't working. I factory reset last night. I'll PF again when I get off and report back this evening.

Ahhh didnt know that. Port forwarding and Upnp cant be used together either, right? There are too many overlapping ports to be able to PF my PC and his console since we play the same games.

Im thinking it MAY be the servers but for some reason, my port forwarding just will not give an open NAT with BO6. I can literally go to MW3 and have them open with the same ports but no dice in BO6. I've done pretty much everything (reboot, unplug, disable and reenable, turning off geofilter, etc) besides factory reset which is hard since my wife WFH and my kids are always doing SOMETHING that requires internet. Im not behind a CGNAT. Spectrum ISP. Netgear CM1000 modem. My son's console is in the DMZ.

Problem is, when I set it to 500/25, the furthest I can take my download speed down to is 250 and that doesn't do as good of a job as being able to take it down under 200.

My internet speeds are 500/20 with Spectrum but I have it set to 350/20. Speedtest Bypass is red/on in all tests. Here are the results for "full-speed" with CC Mode set to always on Here's the result with 50% download speed and CC Mode set to always on And here's the result with CC mode set to auto and download set to 50% My question is why cant I get great results like on the bottom test with my speeds set to the "max" and always on? The router is clearly capable of giving tons of throughput and properly prioritizing packets. But when I set it to always on with more than 60% of my download, my results are always like the top test.