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Okay thank you very much, also as I cannot get Fortnite to be detected as a game I would like to setup a bandwidth reservation on a few devices however cannot select the device itself or even gaming as a whole on a certain device, I am only finding the option to set bandwidth reservations for a device and a specific game like Fortnite. However this won't work if Fortnite isn't detected. Is there a way to set bandwidth reservations for gaming as a whole on a certain device ?

Thank you this is very helpful, would there be a way around this so exit lag can be used as well as prioritising the specific game on the router or is this not possible doing it this way?

So you would recommend it is not worth using for games like Fortnite ?

Again please read my previous texts, adding a specific device is not an option either. I don't think it is relevant to get into fine details of my personal situation however it is due to multiple different devices on the network at once with regular sharing of devices between people doing different tasks and multiple different games being played at once. It is crucial for my situation that I can specify certain games to have high priority not devices or gaming as a whole. Also as an update I found out that a service called exit lag, which optimises routing to gaming servers, is running on the computer. When turned off Fortnite is now recognised by the router. This is a temporary fix for me as apparently exit lag is needed to be on and running again soon and I checked with the exit lag team who informed me they do not encrypt any data and there shouldn't be an issue from there end. Would you know why this service causes a clash with the router? thank you for your fast responses.

Like I said multiple times, prioritising gaming as a whole is not an option for me in my current situation please read my full text before responding otherwise it is not helpful and will only confuse things. Please respond when you can offer me something actually helpful and relevant to my questions.

I'm not sure I understand I have specifically just Fortnite as high priority and the router doesn't know I'm playing Fortnite so how does this work. The activity is still appearing on the right side of the smart boost pie chart which is the none prioritised side and not the left prioritised side. So I don't understand how it can have the same effect. I currently have no other devices or activity set to high priority, only Fortnite. Like I said setting gaming as a whole to high priority is not something I can do so even if it detects it as a game surely that means it's not prioritised like it is telling me it isnt

First of all the Fortnite London server is missing from the ping heatmap but that isn't my issue. I have drawn a custom circle around the UK as to only connect to UK and Ireland servers. However in my very first 3 games using this feature I was placed in 2 German and 1 french server. Is there something I'm doing wrong ?

Fortnite is appearing as "unknown (gaming)" on the smart boost feature, so even though I have set it to high priority, it does not get high priority as the game isn't recognised. It also has a "traffic identified" sign next to this activity which apparently means the application is encrypted but the router can still identify the type of traffic. So how do I get the router to detect Fortnite and get it to actually have high priority. Putting gaming as a whole or a certain device at high priority instead is not an option in this case.