David J

no need for apologies man...I knew I could do the same thing on my R3...I just know sometimes they are set up differently and things get changed on each newer router. Also, I had just asked about putting your router on an IP addy outside of the range...to be honest I had never heard of that...I always thought to static it was in the range...so its nice to learn something new...however....I wasnt the one that was having all the port forwarding troubles, that was the original poster but I do thank you for explaining the static out of range reasoning.

you picture looks like you're on a netgear XR....I'm on the R3 but I'm assuming you can set it the same way?....my only question is....what is it suppose to do for say the xbox or ps5 by setting the static ip outside of the DHCP range?

take it out of the R3 DHCP range?....you mean give your console a ip addy over 250? like 192.168.77.251? or am I reading it wrong?

that wasnt a dig against the company or router....just his preference....I still have decent games with my R3....sometimes its off...but overall..its good

sad to say my son had did the same thing and went with the asus ax11000....a little to expensive for me but he isnt having any trouble either and just signs in and plays and according to him hes getting better games.

hey Fraser...I would like to be added for the beta on my XR1000 please. Thanks!