Dallas, Texas is my closest server for Call of Duty games and they have both Dedicated and Peer servers in Dallas (I'm still don't know what a "Peer Server" is vs a "Dedicated Server") and that's usually where I connect to with ping times in the low teens. Last week our internet company upgraded us to 1Gb Fiber Optic but all week we never got anywhere near the speeds we was supposed to get, a friend of mine is their head tech in the office so he stopped by one evening and together we narrowed it down to the XR1000v2 router, we was getting full speed when not going through the router, and turning QoS on/off made no difference on the max speeds although it did appear to work as it did further limit speeds then turned on. So after a bunch of testing different settings in every possible corner of the router I finally did what Netgear calls a "90 second hard reset" where you press and hold reset button for 30 seconds, unplug power while still holding the reset button and wait 30 more seconds, then plug power back in while still holding the reset and hold it until the red light flashes. OK, So that wipes EVERYTHING in the router. I set it back up and despite being setup identical to what it was before, we now get our full speeds.
Except, the next night (last night) when I went to play Call of Duty Modern Warfare III for some reason the Dallas servers are not showing up at all. Usually I use the Polygon mode and draw a box that sets the Geo-Filter set so it covers most of Texas, Oklahoma, Akrnasas, Missisippi, Alabama, lower Missouri, eastern Tennessee, south eastern-Kentucky. So a large block BUT stops short of the next closest CoD servers in Atlanta and St. Louis. This has worked ever since I got the XR1000v2 and we always connect to Dallas, sometimes a Peer in North-Central Oklahoma and always get consistant pings from 13-15.
Only last night I could not connect at all with this same setup, the search went all the way up to 200ms and then would start over. So I restarted everything in the correct order and still no luck. Finally I turned off the Filtering Mode and restartred the game and finally it connected but now it's connecting me all the way to places like Chicago (800 miles away to the NE) and Atlanta (600 miles away to the east) and sometimes St. Louis (400 miles N-NE) all of which always give ping times in the 30s up into the to low 40s for Chicago.
Any clue what happend, did something mess up in the router that it now can't see the Dallas servers but sees all the others normally?
(BTW: Before the hard reset the 3 Dallas CoD Dedicated Servers and 2 Dallas CoD Peer Servers, Along with the 7 Microsoft/Xbox Dedicated servers (2 in western New York, 2 in washington state, 2 in Iowa, and 1 in eastern Kentucky) they use for NAT testing, live chat, and other basic functions was ther only servers I had also saved in as Approved Servers).
For that matter, does anyone know if the Dallas CoD servers might be down?
I did check CoD's website and they show everythings supposed to be OK, also checked downdetector and they show a spike in reports for CoD connection issues but don't list specifically where and it's not a major spike.
