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Thanks very much, Fraser. It wasn’t as hard as I thought it would, yay. I’m familiar with interface a bit due to EE WiFi Enhancer, But I’ve been trying to get most out of my R3 so a few things: 1. BufferBloat and Ping Optimiser So I ran Ping Optimiser and it kept reporting n/a on new ping. I thought it might be glitching out as I know there had been issues with it before. But I don’t think it couldn’t do any meaningful change to my connection, not a glitch. When I first step up R3 it gave me an 95 cap up and down. So I decided to do a waveform bufferbloat test to ensure R3 is doing its job. We have a laptop but no Ethernet port, ps5 browser is inaccessible you can get around it to open but it doesn’t function properly. So I got my series x and plug it into Ethernet to R3 to do the test. 95% cap down/up on internet speed of 915/111 Grade A+ Idle Latency 9ms Download Latency 5+ms > total 14ms Upload Latency 0ms > total 9ms Jitter - Idle 0.5ms, download 2.4ms, upload 0.7ms I tried to get rid of that 5ms by lowing down to 90.5 percent of 915, and 87.5 percent of 111 Test 1: Grade A+ Idle Latency 9ms download latency 4ms > total 13ms upload latency 0ms > total 9ms Jitter - Idle 0.8ms, download 4ms, upload 3.5ms Test 2: Grade A+ idle Latency 9ms Download Latency +3ms > Total 12ms Upload latency 0ms > 9ms Jitter - Idle 0.9ms, download 2.5ms, upload 0.7ms I think it’s great R3 is able to completely kill off upload latency, before it I was getting 22-45ms when uploading. As a ps5 user I use the auto upload feature on PSN when I get a good sniper shot. So this doesn’t affect gameplay anymore! 2. Steady Ping I like the concept of steady ping. It does seem to help in call of duty multiplayer a lot. I understand it adds a buffer and it’s slightly delaying communication. Is that both upstream my input to the server, or the downstream snapshots to my ps5 or both? Also what does the tick rate synchronisation o 1.2 actually mean itself? In Battlefield it’s like 1.9-2.5 but in cod multiplayer it’s jumping all over the shop, 8 > 12 > 17. My Steady ping usage This is a mixed bag. If I use it when setting my CC to 95 or 70 it feels good, but if I use it with my current 90.5/87.5 it feels not good. Without steady ping using 90.5/87.5 it feels okayish, but I feel the slowdown/speedup/normalish pacing - I guess due to irregular packets arrival. At 95 without steady ping, again I can feel different pacing more intensely At 70 percent I don’t feel the irregularities. So I would say it works well at 95 or 70 I’m debating what should I hit. I have a streaming household, usually either 3 tv streams or 2 and one game - so at my current speed I’ll be dropping down to 632mpbs download and 77.7 upload, which is still plenty I feel? But 95, which ping optimiser set, seems to work well. Smart boost When it comes to smart boost, should I prioritise my ps5 on device list or is gaming as no1 priority enough? I have noticed when playing cod if another game is updating from patch/dlc ping can spike with ps5 as a favourite. Double Nat Nothing on PS5 has screamed double Nat. Like all gameplay is superior to before. I can play gta online, which uses peer to peer just fine and play server hosted games like cod/bf fine no issues. Series x though is complaining about double Nat. I’m not going to use much as family/friends mainly play on PS5 and PS games now not Xbox anymore, so I use my ps5 more for that reason. Is it normal with my setup with ee and DMZ to have double Nat or did I do something wrong?

Hey Fraser, I’m grateful for all the advice. I’ve set up the R3 and got it working. I managed to do it via EE HUB. So ONT > EE Hub > R3. I’m a novice at this so not sure if I done it right. I use the netduma YouTuber channel on setting up R3, research using Google on EE hub and then went from there. So have I done this right? R3 is plugged into EE Hub lan and the cable is going into R3 wan, just like in your video > The private ip EE Hub Gave my R3 is reserved for R3, so it always uses it > on EE turn on DMZ for the R3. Turn uPnP off on EE hub > Disabled all wireless signals (2.4/5Ghz) on EE Hub > all devices that used EE WiFi, now are connected to R3. This is the best approach right? I have a moderate Nat type on cod on ps5, but no double Nat. I had moderate on EE as well btw. I plan to set up WiFi extender that I used with EE with R3, as downstairs has one large room with a blackout zone for internet no router can sent it signals. So hoping my TP link WiFi extender and R3 play nice. The hardest part of setting up R3 was convincing the household to have a WiFi time out while I did the set up, lmao. Im mainly using Duma Os app on iOS. When firmware updates arrive, will they arrive at the app and I just confirm & app+router does its thang? Similar to the update it does when setting it up? My experience with R3 so far So after using WiFi enhancer BO6 was more playable but still felt like I was losing fights I should win. With R3 I don’t feel at disadvantage, my brain was literally saying ‘you’re going to die in this fight’ so everyone I won, I was surprised. This was with smart boost only and with steady ping plus ping on, trying to figure out which is best to use. And my god BF6 is a night and day difference. I was actually rage quitting previously even with EE qos. Fights are fair now. Before I could empty an entire clip into a player and they would look at me and bang I’m death. Now we trade shots and if I die, and it feels good coz I knew I wasn’t quick enough and I should have lost that fight. BF6 last night was so enjoyable. My family members would sometimes get buffering here and there, even with streamer mode on the EE hub, but they had none so and are happy.

No worries, just wanted to update you an EE update had come but issues still linger, but glad you and your team are on the case. Fraser, if you don’t mind indulging me. Please say if you want me to move this another discussion, I’ll it edit out and start a new general discussion. But I’ve had a few issues with WiFi enhancer with EE. It’s not the router or your feature set, as geo work but game mode just gives up working. This isn’t the only issue, it’s mainly down to their buggy customer app. The feature set is limited, you can only toggle boost on or off, and you can’t set congestion control limits, just run ping optimiser and hope the values are good, although you can’t see what values it sets. There’s no router admin settings, you got to access DUMA os via going deep into ee WiFi controls things. My warzone squad mate, told me to just get an R3 because you can be more in control plus you know what settings are set, etc. I got an R3 before, we did talk about it back then. My BT hub didn’t allow or have a bridge mode, and messing with DMZ wasn’t something I was qualified on. So I was using R3 directly into Bt Ont but couldn’t get it connected, you did offer to help but as I was going away, and my streaming made family don’t go to bed until 12:30 -1am troubleshooting was challenging coz of this. I sent it back because I was weary what if it didn’t work and migrated from BT to EE for simplicity. Im leaving EE as my issues with the service, some of advisors were rude and blame the issues on my set up lol. Sadly they don’t have your kind, pleasant mannered willingness to help. Ive just order an R3 So the two isp I’m eyeing up is sky or talk talk, they use DHCP/IPOE. I heard sky uses something 61 or 62 which R3 may struggle with. I heard there shouldn’t be an issue with talktalk. So could you confirm if the R3 as a pure router would work with these? And am I right to assume that I can plug it into my ee Ont (modem) and it’ll able to work, but just at reduced speeds?

Yesterday November 17th EE app had an update, and that night app underwent maintenance I thought maybe is this. It was unplayable without having the filter off. it was USA again. I didn’t write them down, but they were VG something possibly VGA? So either update isn’t done, or there’s either some ip your team haven’t got or these are new servers. Also game mode doesn’t boost BF6 packets still.

No worries. I appreciate no software is perfect and there will occasionally be bugs popping up, and can’t phantom the complexity that DUMA OS is doing under the hood to boost game packets or know which server is the game one, and filter out the bad apples (laggy ones). I appreciate all the effort you and your team is doing, and how speedy you are. I think EE usually push updates to their app at the end of the month (what a rep told me before) so I’ll update you in the last week of November if the issue is still there.

Hi Fraser, I’ve pop down the servers ID that come up today. Based on ping they all seem to be possible be Germany (my ping to Frankfurt is 19-22ms) and that’s what I was seeing here. I’ve also posted matchmaking flow, so on my 7 matches which servers I got and in what order. I don’t know if this helps. Please note: Battlefield 6 still wasn’t boosting. I played Call of duty: MW3 (2023 version) and battlefront 2 (a frostbite dice game) before checking out Battlefield 6 and they were both boosted. This was on ps5 pro btw. The 1G servers blocks on my geo map are pointing towards USA, Oklahoma City. 1GAUNE 1GAUAI 1GAUVC 1GAUTQ The 53 are showing up as Frankfurt, Germany on my geo map. 53JUL9 53JT8V 53JULT Note: when 53 server ID’s pop up, the below id that pops up and shows in London. The geo behaviour is the following - gamepad icon is in Germany and there’s a white dot in London light up solid no flashing or flicking as if a constant connection. White dot in London is (56) and the gamepad in Germany is (53) if that makes sense? The USA server appearing - the white dot in London didn’t appear. 56NFLM < London white dot. Matchmaking flow Match 1) 1GAUNE Match 2) 1GAUAI Match 3) 53JUL9 Match 4) 53JT8V March 5) 53JULT Match 6) 1GAUVC Match 7) 1GAUTQ

I did have a look around the forum just to see if it was EE or if it was affecting the whole of Netduma. I noticed that others were having issues, and you + your team are doing a lot and dealing with a lot of BF issues & are very busy coz of this. so appreciate you taking the time to reply to me. Lately it has shown the right servers. But every so often it shows up USA servers erroneously. I’ve blocked all non eu servers due to cod. And when I play bf6 I have to use non filtering because it won’t connect to London or Germany as router thinks it’s a USA server. Also just to clarify, are you fixing the game mode/game boost issue - where battlefield 6 isn’t being prioritise or just the geo filter issue?

Hey Fraser I hope you are well. So battlefield 6 has released and I still noticed the game mode isn’t boosting battlefield 6, whereas it boosts the other games such as (Rogue company, call of duty mw3/bo6/warzone, gta online, Fortnite, Battlefront 2) Out of curiosity I downloaded BF 2042 ( the previous one that released in 2021) and that is actively being boosted. I noticed on geo-filter that when I’m playing on a London or Frankfurt server. The server is a white dot. Then there’s a server in Oklahoma City with the gamepad icon that pops up. In battlefield 2042 it just shows only Frankfurt or London but with the gamepad icon on them instead of just a dot. Note: my ping is either between 6-8 or 20-22, so I don’t think im connecting to the states (I’m uk btw).

Thanks for updating me. Do you or any of your team know what time nudge actually is? And if it show me below, above, or lock step with ping value? Am I right to assume that this update will just arrive, I won’t need to manually resync cloud on geo filter? My gameplay to gameplay moments most of time (the 45/45 split) is still good, good hit detection sync with server and interaction with game elements. On the packet loss servers though, I do tend to die around corners. my main concern was as it’d not being boosted over other packets if any family member does uploading files or heavy stream I’ll get packet queuing. Thanks for all the hardwork you guys are doing over there at NetDuma, I do hope you enjoy your time in the beta it’s amazing from what I played so far.

Im trying out the BF6 Beta: this is my first beta with this router and Duma os, so forgive me if this normal behaviour. So when playing a game thr router detects game udp packets and then ‘boosts them’ by putting them at the front of any traffic, so local network doesn’t disrupt gameplay. Geo filter works perfectly. But game mode/boost isn’t working. I try to resync cloud in geo filter to see if that may help router recognise but it did nothing. incase my router was glitching out, I tried bo6 and Fortnite and it worked. Performance is a mixed bag. In 5-10 percent matches I have 1 percent packet loss (according to ea network stat) 45 percent of games are fine good overall connection, good hit detection etc but input lag is a bit delay in some cases. And 45 percent it’s perfect no issues at all. I’m either hitting London 7-8ms ping. And every so often Frankfurt 20-22ms. Time nudge (not sure what this is entirely) but on the servers is 14-10ms. Ive had the icon for latency variation popping up. Here and there. again no jitter or packet loss issues. So I think that part is the server given at one point logging I was in a queue of 20k players waiting lol xD

Hey Fraser Everything is working as it should. thanks for your support and patience with my issues.

Hi I restarted my router and the booster (game mode) stay on for 4 days. So two days ago I turned on streaming mode. They’ve both stayed on and gameplay is nice and smooth again since. As I restarted my router, EE pushed a new app update (Like to update the actual iOS EE app) so I don’t know if this was to do with the cloud update or not. So I think your theory that the outstanding cloud update may have been causing it was true, as it’s working normally now for my console. Either tonight or tomorrow night I’ll try my Rog Ally with WiFi enhancer, and if all goes well - you’ve saved my gaming experience. ill report back if the Rog works with WiFi enhancer

No. I power off both fully. As UK Energy prices can be horrid, plus the ps5 networking can be weird if you play multiplayer from rest mode. Ive restarted the router, see how it works tomorrow and day after. If it still glitches out I’ll raise a ticket with EE - if I’m being honest, I think it’s on them. Because Every aspect of ping optimiser and geo filter seems to work, so it seems the router itself is maybe not tagging or recognising game traffic?

So, for example say: I am playing call of duty on my ps5. my family member is playing Fortnite. When you go onto boosted part of WiFi enhancer each pre mentioned mode (game, work, streamer) each boosted modes widget has an arrow, you select the arrow it’ll expand game mode and it’ll tell you how long it has been boosted for. If I’m playing call of duty, they play Fortnite. On game mode boost drop down it’ll show ps5 and Xbox series x (to say they boosted) — EE told me with WiFi enhancer the net duma os automatically detects game traffic and boost it. If I restart my router (turn it off for 2 mins and back on) it’ll boost for a day sometimes two then stops working. It could be UI bug/glitch, but I feel an obvious inconsistency in networking performance in call of duty. it started happening around June 16th, which was the same day EE updated their app, so not sure if there’s a link there.

Thanks. So I don’t know if it’s related but the EE App has been updated recently (the main customer one in which WiFi enhancer page lives). This has happened since 16th of June EE has three modes, I think it’s akin to smart boost? Just in case you don’t have EE or are fully aware with their product naming this is what the app says: (if you well informed about their product modes, skip the bold text - non bold text below explains my issue) How boosting works Boosting stops you experiencing drops in WiFi performance. Especially when everyone's on your WiFi at once. It works by giving boosted apps their own traffic lane, instead of rediverting bandwidth from someone else. You can activate Game Mode, Work Mode and Stream Mode without worrying that your're spoiling fun for someone else. There's no trade-off, even if you activate all modes at the same time. Game Mode Automatically boosts your WiFi whenever you fire up online games. Work Mode Gives your WiFi a boost whenever your're using apps like Zoom or Teams Stream Mode Enjoy buffer-free bliss whenever your watch online videos and shows. So game mode/boost stops working, sometimes it’s on and off. Most days it’s off, even though it’s on. I try running ping optimiser to see if that makes it work, it doesn’t. I tried turning off steaming mode. This was new to me (only had it added recently) game mode work for a bit, but now doesn’t. Do you think this is something I need to speak to EE about or is this a Net Duma issue?