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Hi Fraser, we decided to use the Xbox series X. (Its hardwired to R3 not going through eero).. 1)) it failed to get Nat type, the Xbox said to ensure a certain port open (I think 3544) so I set up port forwarding for that. Still issues. So I had to geo allow Brazil for it to do it. I don’t know why Brazil as I’m in uk. I thought I would raise this as I’m guessing most uk players wouldn’t allow Brazil. 2)) is it worth turning on DSCP tagging on Xbox or is it pointless due to smart boost doing its own DSCP tagging?

So for your test: if a family downloads a game while you are playing call of duty on PC your latency could spike upward of 16ms. If someone is downloading a game on their ps5 and another family member is uploading large files to the cloud your ping could increase to 45ms. For context LibreQos it refers to grades like this: A+ perfect A smooth B minor slowdown C notable impact D severe impact F unusable When I tweak my network to get rid of bloat. I’ll set download and upload at 95 percent do the test, wait a min or two. Then I’ll lower them down by 10 percent or so so 95-85-75 until I get A+ and ideally 0.0.ms + increase. If you found 85 gave you up A+, you could go up by 5 percent to 90 percent to see if it stays A+. If you do increase by 5 percent and it goes off A+ to an A or B just use the ones previously so if 75 gave you A+ but you went up to 80 and got an A, just go back to 75. It’s very important you do your testing when the house is quiet. If a file is downloading or uploading, this is going to add noise to the test. I have a streaming mad family xD so I do mine when the household is asleep. Note: we don’t have the same router, I have the R3 so @Netduma Fraser would have to advise the actual CC settings. But on R3 when doing this testing you set always on and Speedtest bypass off.

Hitreg in bo7, at least on my servers is almost non existent (50 percent of time). If you play call of duty on ps5 I highly recommend you going into graphics and find texture streaming and setting it to minimal. Call of duty streams texture from the internet as you play. For my network and isp, call of duty opens up a lot of CDN connections to pull textures. My ps5 was pulling 50 mbits on optimised for textures on havens hollow before setting it to minimal. If you wanted to know how your connection handles load I would suggest using libreqos advanced internet quality test (if you go onto their site, make sure you select advanced up the top) it’ll saturate your download and grade it, it’ll saturate your upload and grade it, then saturate upload and down together and grade it. They also have a ‘virtual household’ test (again up the top label household) this creates a fake simulation of someone gaming, someone streaming movie, someone on a voice call and someone uploading a file - you can watch the gaming part and clock how lower or high and how stable jitter is.

I will reach out if I need help or have problem with R3 > Eero. My family have decided to switch isp. Should I factory reset and reset up or just flip auth? New Provider would be pppoe aswell.

Ensure Geolatency is disabled. Strict mode would need to be on. From my own experience I only get Sweden for zombies or endgame. From my own testing, the game does prefer Paris and Frankfurt for gameplay. I know Poland is used occasionally for multiplayer. When you first open call of duty, before game servers appear you should see two servers appear in Ireland I would say true white listing these (they appear to be auth servers) if I don’t polygon Ireland my game can be weird. SBMM may be an issue, but it could also be pop is lower on those servers. Effectively you connection times out to blocked server or your router shows the game you got 250+ making matchmaking avoid that. Have you tried changing your dns on ps5 from isp default to cloudflare?

I am a uk player too. I found BO7 is quite strict on letting you on them USA servers, MW3/Bo6 I manage to play on Atlanta/NYC servers but bo7 will only put me on Virginia/D.C server in private match (mp). It seems unless you have American based player as party leader the game fights you here. Ensure you do a polygon around Ireland or whitelist the servers there - these are not gameplay servers, they appear to be auth servers. If my console can’t talk to them COD freaks out and won’t let me play.

Same results on both. I tried multiple DNS servers - 1.1.1.1, 8.8.8.8, and a custom one - same result each time. Plan for Monday: I’ll factory reset and also add my eeros into the network for better WiFi reachability. Currently using a cheap WiFi plug to extend coverage for my stepdad’s part of the house, and I want to make sure his connection is solid and reliable once the eeros are in. My planned setup: PS5 - wired into R3 ROG Ally X - wired into R3 (used mainly for BB testing, no laptop currently) Phones, TVs, Fire Stick/streaming - on eero WiFi A few questions on the R3 side: Should I turn off R3’s WiFi radios entirely once eero is handling wireless, or is there a reason to leave them on alongside eero? Do you have any guidance on running eero in bridge/AP mode behind R3, so R3 stays the single router (DHCP/PPPoE/shaping) and eero is just handling WiFi? Any settings you’d recommend to keep SmartBOOST/shaping working correctly for the wired PS5 and ROG Ally once eero’s added into the mix? I really appreciate all the help you’re giving me on my issue. Thank you so much

Hi Fraser, I have tried twice now over two different nights and no dice. i notice it says this on log when I do it.. user.err com.netdumasoftware.settings: failed to get UCI section for underlying WAN device I have attached the logs in case you need to see them yourself. after inputting the IPv4 values (I don’t use 6) it doesn’t save. As if save has no functionality. Duma wan error log .txt

Thanks, I’ll try this and report back. Could you advise me on how to change the DNS server? I’m getting DNS issues — my ISP’s DNS is awful, and on the Eero I had to switch to Cloudflare. Any guidance would be brilliant.

On physical vs digital: If you go out and buy a game on disc, you’re buying the shipped version. Even if the disc holds all the game data, you’d still have to download any day-one patches from PSN to bring it up to the current version. Depending on how many there are, that could be anywhere from 1 to 10GB. I think RDR2 in 2023 made me download about 10GB of updates (I may be wrong on the figure), whereas digitally it would have been a 90–100GB download. If what you’re asking is whether putting a disc in the PS5 gets you faster downloads than buying digitally — unlikely. Any download, whether that’s the game itself, DLC or a post-launch patch, comes from the same place: Sony/CDN Servers. If you run the Speedtest on PlayStation’s “Test Internet Connection” page, what speeds are you getting? Also on network speeds in Duma os what have you entered?

Hi Fraser, Below is as much detail as I can give on my setup. Quick note: I’ve seen people mention bad packet loss on EU CoD servers in Warzone, but my issue has actually been in Zombies — Warzone hasn’t been showing problems for me. Also, just as I was writing this, DownDetector sent me an alert that Call of Duty is having issues. 1) Router setup The FRITZ!Box is completely out of the picture now. My R3 is handling PPPoE directly. I did occasionally get blips when the R3 was sat in the FRITZ!Box’s DMZ, though. (All devices connected to R3, gaming device wired) 2) CC values Mode: Always on Further speed testing gave me an average of 850 Mbps down and 104 Mbps up. At 75% down / 85% up CC, I was noticing some lagginess. PingPlotter and internet quality testing were showing a B grade / high latency under load. Dropping to 70% down / 85% up seems to have helped. 3) New CC values Further testing with the LibreQoS internet quality test showed that 70% down / 85% up gives A+ down, A+ up, and A+ bi-directional (down and up saturated simultaneously). 0ms added latency under load, with only a 1.5–2ms microspike when both directions are saturated at once. 4) FTTP I think I may have an issue on my fibre line, so I wanted to rule out the R3 as the cause. LibreQoS’s virtual household test and advanced internet quality test both show low jitter and low latency for gaming, the test noted that SQM (whatever CAKE/fq_codel variant DumaOS uses) is holding up fine. 5) Geo-Filter My location is set to London, with a radius reaching up to about Germany. I mainly play CoD and Battlefield at the moment — Battlefield mostly puts me on Frankfurt, and CoD puts me on all sorts (Milan, Warsaw, and Madrid aren’t great connections for me). This setup lets me reach London, Amsterdam, Paris, and Frankfurt — Frankfurt ping is 19–21ms, which is very good. Geo-latency is on, strict mode is on, and the ping filter allows servers up to 27ms — just in case CoD or BF add new servers that get geographically misplaced; on ping alone, the closer server should still win out. 6) SmartBoost PS5 boosted x5 Call of Duty series boosted — 1000 EA games boosted — 800 Gaming (general) boosted — 400 My stepdad’s media device runs on ExpressVPN (my ISP routing isn’t perfect at the moment), and that sometimes gets classified as gaming. Should I add streaming to smart boost or gaming only? 7) Other settings Spanning Tree — off Port Protection — off (this was the default when I first set it up) TCP DDoS protection — on Ping/echo replies allowed — yes (I use BQM to monitor my connection)

Good morning Fraser. I had some severe freeze in game - completely desync and all that. Not sure if it’s an issue with isp or my r3 run into an issue. If you don’t mind, could you check my log out to see? R3 16 Aug log .txt

Try going into downloads, hit pause all. Then resume download. This sometimes switching my ps5 and Xbox from downloading slowly to downloading at higher speeds.

I’m a fellow Zen user. 900/105, Open reach. I wouldn’t trust ping optimiser too much. One time it told me 7ms like yourself, the second run said my ping was perfect at 100ms. I’ve managed to get a+ manually. I’m using pppoe but also found fritzbox, I found fritzbox in middle wasn’t ideal. Before testing make sure house is quiet and no downloads are taking place. I would suggest the following: 1)) I strongly recommend going in and switching your mtu/enter in 1492. I had lag and changed only mtu and it improved things. 2)) Hardwired into your R3 - go to Speedtest.net and pick zen from the test servers, do about 3. Go to Speedtest on dumaos admin page > click on three dots > advanced > manually enter the avg download and upload. 3)) Either going to router web admin address or Duma os mobile app. Open up ping optimiser and pick advanced (three dots and advanced again). Scroll down to the congestion control part, click on that you’ll see sliders. 4)) Then open another page on a pc/laptop/series x wired into R3. Google bufferbloat test. Pick waveform option. Starting at 95 and test. Then go down by 10 until you get no added lat. When you get good result, they advise to go up by 5 percent to see if you keep result. 5)) After getting no added lat, I usually do a test via wired device on Speedtest.net and fast.com to note that cc is holding up. Speedtest.net usually shows lat on all bits idle, download and upload. Fast.com will show 10ms unloaded and 15ms loaded. 6)) I would like to add that say 85 down and 90 up on cc, could look great on paper A+ no added latency but doesn’t feel great in game.

I did testing as I was able to grab the family laptop, here’s my results. What numbers would you suggest inputting based on my results? BTW I’m impressed that the R3 was able to push my full line considering how cpu heavy pppoe is. Smart boost off 1)) 916 down, 110 up 2)) 921 down, 110 up 3)) 903 down, 109 up Smart boost on, CC sliders set to 100 up and down (to get line speed with qos on) 1)) 837 down, 106 up 2)) 863 down, 106 up