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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?

Thanks for the update. I’ll wait 7 days from now and if I have issue with rog, I’ll get in touch with them and see where they go. As you’re done stuff on your end. I have another issue, do I open another thread or can we speak about it here? I’m not sure if it’s an EE issue or Net Duma - so would like to mention it to you before taking it to EE?

Okay, I look forward to your response tomorrow. I’m excited to able to play ROG ally via net Duma feature set. May I also say thank you to you and the team. Before with my old router, bo6 was unplayable. Coming to EE, their router in vanilla mode is an improvement but still bo6 desync is still heavy. Using net Duma feature set, which is mainly QOS game mode boost has helped. Instead of getting 20 bullets in one and instant death, I now get 3/4 hits then die and my shots are more consistent, it feels more in sync. And with geo filter? When I play mw2 DMZ or mw3 zombie mode. Matchmaking likes to throw me onto a Chicago or New York server and playing with 77-100ms ping isn’t fun. But via net Duma geo filter feature, I always land on London 7ms, or Paris and Amsterdam with 12-13ms. Feels so good. So thanks to you guys for bringing this to market, and the continuous of innovation you’re doing

Hi Fraser, I hope you had a good weekend. I was wondering if there was any news?

I appreciate you saying what you can, and thanks for answering my question (s). May I check in here with you on Sunday to see if EE has accepted the update. I did try the ROG again last night but it didn’t work yet but I know you said 7 days/a week so Saturday or Sunday?