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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

Thanks, I’ve currently input 910/105 into speed yesterday. I did do a speed test with cc set to 100 up and down. I got Speedtest.net outputting 808-834 down and about 105-106 up. But based on previously ones, I would say my speed is about 765-834ish most of time. I’ll do more test. (If I did it with r3 in DMZ it would be 794-888) do you advise testing at quiet time, how many times shall I test per season twice or 3 times? and shall I turn off smart boost/cc off or just turn it up to 100 percent for true speed? note: I’m doing pppoe with r3 connected directly Ont. Speed isn’t important, more stability/low lag

Hey Fraser, I was wondering if I could ask your advice. So to ensure the router is working with all available bandwidth to shape. What should speeds should I enter? The built in speed test can sometimes read download 888-800 and upload can read 111-112, but these are numbers my isp provided for my line. Do I input my plan speeds or go off Netduma os numbers? I previously incorrectly stated I was on 900/115, it’s accurately 900/105. (Although I’m a lucky 20 percent customer who can get 910.) Heres a snapshot of my line’s capabilities that my isp sent me. Your Broadband Speeds Normally available download speed (Kbps)910000 and 910000 Normally available upload speed (Kbps):105000 - 105000 Minimum guaranteed download speed (Kbps):500000 Minimum upload speed (Kbps): 55000 Max download speed (Kbps): 910000 Max upload speed (Kbps): 109000 Advertised download speed (Kbps): 910000 Advertised upload speed (Kbps): 105000

I managed to download it successfully. (I did have a bad gateway hicup but refresh routers ip address and re did it and worked fine. i did my bb testing and found a good value. 85 down and 90 up. I did try the ping optimiser settings from before (95 down and 100 up) but latency rises. Now all that’s left to be seen is if when family stream at peak time if my setting holds up. Thanks so much for all your support Fraser, I really appreciate it. I hope you have a good weekend.

Thanks I’ll try this. Forgive me, but I’m a bit of technical noob. So just plug laptop into R3 via an Ethernet. Download file from here, then go to router admin on page via router getaway address. Then troubleshoot > upload firmware and then upload file and the r3 does it magic? Or something else?

Hi Fraser A bug/glitch kinda happen that I wanted to inform you of. about an hour or two after I done this. WiFi devices were locked to 60mbps down and 90 up. LAN devices were locked to 350 down and 90 up. I turned smart boost off and then on again, removed my console from priority and remove and re added gaming, cod and ea games. I even put my cc sliders back to older values no dice. So I thought it could be Fritzbox or something. So I reset my Ont and Fritzbox. Did dumaos network test that was getting full line speed. But still lower speed persist. The R3 CPU cores look fine, highest was 30 percent so I’m guessing that’s optimal? 4 hours later my network reverted to normal speeds again devices getting 600-700 on download. I’ll do some more testing in regards to bufferbloat though as when I’m gaming people stream and sometimes it can lag me a bit vs if I game and everyone is asleep

So I won’t able to do testing until weekend as we all share the laptop. However I rebooted my R3 and run ping optimiser just to see what it said. I am keeping in mind that you said it could be abnormal. I’ll share results. Download ping seems good, upload though is interesting. I did 3 ping tests to see baseline and jitter.