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can someone please explain why i have to restart my router everyday when i cant log into it? why the ping optimizer doesnt work properly? why is this $300 hardware underpowered and under performing?con someone please let me know why there isnt a profiule for pubg as well? why is the hardware not better? i have a netgear nighthawk x10 ad7200 here thats collecting dust that from a hardware perspective could run this like a pro. 

The purpose is to get close servers, not necessarily force servers in another continent so there is no guarantee that will always work. 
Disable GeoLatency Disable PingAssist (set it to 0,0) Enable Strict Mode Disable Fast Search Use Simple instead of Custom radius Resync the cloud Then restart game or wait 10 minutes (in the lobby in the game). If that doesn't work, reboot PC/Console and it should work then. This part is very important.

Okay good to know! I just let the device stay powered off and then turned it back on instead of waiting, but in the future I will definitely use that. Neat tool. Thanks for letting me know.

You have to disable SmartBOOST fully which will then disable Congestion Control

lowest ping server I get is 13ms, and it still feels like a 3ms player can kill me in what seems like an instant. I have just come to the conclusion that hit detection and netcode suck this year

lmfao for sure, even with a super stable connection, im still getting rocked by BS. Cant tell if its my actual connection or if its just the netduma. Im prob gonna connect directly to the fiber switch and see how it feels in comparison. Just not sure what to do for decent hit detection anymore.

This is a gaming router and I think that the priority should be to fix the things that advertise this router first.

Okay well a new version shouldn't be too far away now

turns out it was really 1500 lol. They use jumbo frames internally to move data faster, I guess? idk

Seconded. I'm having the exact same issues and the system logs seem to show errors too.
kern.warn kernel: r7 : bee70a2c r6 : bee70ae0 r5 : 00000008 r4 : 00000000kern.warn kernel: r3 : 00000000 r2 : 00000008 r1 : 00000001 r0 : bee70ae4kern.warn kernel: Flags: nzCv IRQs on FIQs on Mode USER_32 ISA ARM Segment userkern.warn kernel: Control: 10c5387d Table: 0262804a DAC: 00000055kern.warn kernel: CPU: 0 PID: 4309 Comm: datahistory Tainted: P W O 4.19.183 #16kern.warn kernel: Hardware name: Generic DT based systemkern.warn kernel: [<c0210a14>] (unwind_backtrace) from [<c020b9a8>] (show_stack+0x10/0x14)kern.warn kernel: [<c020b9a8>] (show_stack) from [<c088a634>] (dump_stack+0x90/0xa4)kern.warn kernel: [<c088a634>] (dump_stack) from [<c022d8e0>] (get_signal+0x658/0x680)kern.warn kernel: [<c022d8e0>] (get_signal) from [<c020b094>] (do_signal+0xcc/0x538)kern.warn kernel: [<c020b094>] (do_signal) from [<c020b6c4>] (do_work_pending+0xb4/0xd0)kern.warn kernel: [<c020b6c4>] (do_work_pending) from [<c0201070>] (slow_work_pending+0xc/0x20)kern.warn kernel: Exception stack(0xc2751fb0 to 0xc2751ff8)kern.warn kernel: 1fa0: bee70ae4 00000001 00000008 00000000kern.warn kernel: 1fc0: 00000000 00000008 bee70ae0 bee70a2c bee70a2c 00013738 bee709a0 bee709afkern.warn kernel: 1fe0: 00028f0c bee70940 00013718 b6d61b10 200f0010 ffffffff
 
daemon.err odhcp6c[9019]: Failed to send SOLICIT message to ff02::1:2 (Cannot assign requested address)

Thanks. Yeah it seems to ONLY be at that hop, every other website etc pings perfectly stable. My guess is just that its busy on the other end, and therefore throughput is not very good, causing alot of congestion. My guess is maybe thats an Activision thing, and they need better servers, which is probably not gonna happen. Only other thing is maybe pray my ISP would change the route to another Tier 1, but thats also not likely, but MAY fix the issue.

I personally would say to give both a try. Run each setting and give a good gaming session a go. See which one performs well for you. Do understand, that waveform and bufferbloat are third party tools used to get a general assessment in how YOUR ISP line is holding up. Ping plotter, you can see first hand how your latency is handling any type of jitter. The least amount the better. But, also keep in mind, this is for THAT SERVER BEING TESTED, whatever IP you used to test. As this is just a general test. Same with waveform bufferbloat, it's testing their servers. Which ever servers they may be. But, it's against their server. You're getting a general idea how your ISP line is holding up.
Now, once you figured out which is good to your liking, you can give your game a go. No, your connection is against that server. It will be slightly different, because you're factoring in many variables. Server load(how many people are playing on this server, which u cannot see). Server stability, how well it's able to holdup to being able to hold this many players.... etc, list goes on.
So, using ping plotter and or waveform, you're just getting a general idea.
This is why I say, play different servers. You might find a different server, holds up well to your connection.

But, if you want to just A answer to your question. Go with pingplotter. I'll even give u a hint that may help.
When you're in-game match, check the 'stats for nerds' from SmartBOOST page and find your console/PC. There you will see a (i) . Click it and see what is the server IP you're playing on. Then, run pingplotter against this IP. You might not get a response. BUT, test the HOP before the LAST HOP. This will give you a better idea of how your connection is holding up. But, don't take this as face value. As this is NOT THE IP but close enough.

Hopefully we get the old prioritisation back - not a fan of smart qos tbh (I haven't had a good experience overall on MWIII with it). At the moment I've gone back to the R2 with UDP prioritised and the games have improved (and my ping's low and stable).
Without knowing how smart QoS works (is it Game/Voice, Normal, Video on the R2? are DSCP marks applied to WAN (Advance setting on R2?)), I feel like these give different experiences so it's good to have this option. You'd want to have control whether DSCP is applied to WAN (some ISPs might not like it and down prioritise your packets) and you don't want your QoS to be tuned for Wifi when you're playing hardwired (I think we were told to select Game/Voice on the R2 when playing via wifi, Normal for hardwired). I have a feeling smart qos might have gone the Game/Voice route as I saw WMM mentioned in the stats for nerds page. I this is the case it's unfortunate cause it gave me the worst experience with the R2. My best experience on the netduma was on the older firmware, before they introduced Game/Voice, Video etc.

Yeah thats on Sonys end, and theres nothing you can do about it unfortunately. Im like 99% sure Sony caps the speeds out.I had symetrical gig like you do, and when I ran a speed test from a PS5, I ended up with the same issues. Download wasn't to bad, but upload was chopped into pieces. I wouldn't get to worried over it, again as its something well out of anyones control. Not you, Netduma, or your ISP can change how fast it can go sadly. Its what made me switch back to xbox, and then eventually just realized everything was nicer on PC

Ah yeah, thats a good selling point lol. Thanks for the response on the parent controls too. Just need something to cut off my kids. I will definitely keep the R3 assuming it can reduce this crazy ass bufferbloat. Thanks. 

Is it the XR1000 you got? In which case both should eliminate it, they're based on the same software created by us. Best thing to do is to use both on their own and experiment with them and see what works best for you.
It's worth noting that the software on the R3 is the latest and it won't be coming to the XR1000 and you won't get any new feature updates on the XR1000.

You can see the terms here: https://netduma.com/terms
There is a parental control type feature called Internet Rules "Decide who uses your connection by setting the rules – literally. Automatically freeze the internet on your own schedule for any of your network devices. With Network Rules, users now have more control than ever over their network, devices and traffic. Internet access/usage can be blocked based on application, device or port aligned to your schedule."

I wouldn't worry too much, that can happen sometimes as they shorten it or it gets messed up for emails but it'll be right on the label

Sorry for the lateness in this response, I went back to my ASUS GT AXE-11000 router for the past week but after playing my Xbox online with xDefiant & Call of Duty the pings & connection were pretty shoddy. I received an email stating there was a new firmware so decided to try out my R3 again. The WiFi speeds were still indeed around 200 Mbps but after disabling IPv6 the speeds increased up to between 800-900. I then re-enabled IPv6 and viola, WiFi speeds were still above 800. I’m not entirely sure if the firmware update was the solution or if disabling / re-enabling was the solution but everything is working as intended. I was using PPPoE to answer your previous inquiry by the way. Thank you for taking the time to respond to my issue and thanks to Netduma for this awesome gaming router
 
TLDR; downloaded new firmware, enabled IPv6, rebooted, disabled IPv6, rebooted, re-enabled IPv6 h now everything is working as intended

Hard to say exactly, is PingPlotter the only place you're seeing these spikes - do you feel it in game? Can you provide a screenshot of what you're seeing on PingPlotter please and explain the scenario under which the test was done?

Yeah thats on Sonys end, and theres nothing you can do about it unfortunately. Im like 99% sure Sony caps the speeds out.I had symetrical gig like you do, and when I ran a speed test from a PS5, I ended up with the same issues. Download wasn't to bad, but upload was chopped into pieces. I wouldn't get to worried over it, again as its something well out of anyones control. Not you, Netduma, or your ISP can change how fast it can go sadly. Its what made me switch back to xbox, and then eventually just realized everything was nicer on PC

Do a speed test through the browser on the PS5 the servers that Sony connects you to are typically slow and inaccurate.

Are there no other devices connected to any other router or is that literally it? In which case you don't need to use QoS/SmartBOOST really as the PS isn't competing with any other devices so you just need to setup the Geo-Filter really.

This is true! I’m excited to start using it!

Awesome, thanks for your purchase! Don't forget it is a support forum so you'll only see people posting issues here!