Hello

[K4L4M1TY]

Hi all, i'm currently looking to upgrade my modem/router to something with a bit more gaming functionality.I am from Sydney Australia and I have been console gaming since the early 2000's back on the PS2 where I played Socom online religiously. I have played pretty much every popular shooter since but I also play many different genres on a competitive level including racing, sports and MMO's. I know extremely well the value of having a good connection but I also know the fact that we aren't always benefitting from them in newer games cough* COD cough*.

 

Playing these games competitively for as long as I have I consider myself an above average player/veteran and the experience I have gained shows when I play with my friends whom whilst being able to do they do well, don't understand the finer points of gaming/competitive. Now since Advanced Warfare the trend seems clear; to try and level out players' connections via lag compensation to bring everyone closer together in terms of hit detection etc. I know that this also affected me on Black Ops 2 on PS3 but only with one person that no matter what I did he would 9 out of 10 times get the hitmarkers on me, everyone else I had no problems whatsoever with. Most shooters I play I have a 3 k/d and I usually play alone but in Black Ops 3 on PS4 I am just around 2k/d and most of my friends are struggling for 1.5k/d and it all comes down to more people showing up like my one buddy on Black Ops 2. He was located in Perth which is the other side of the country and that's really all I could attribute it to along with him maybe having a horrible connection to begin with. On Black Ops 3 I am now encountering people in Queensland and Victoria which is much closer and usually no issue to be doing the same thing.

 

I am interested to know if the Netduma can stop these certain people from joining the dedicated or 'e' servers that I am in after the game has already begun. Basically will it not allow them to join a lobby I am in at all? Can the Geo-restriction tool do this? It seems a rash thing to do but it's ruining the experience for all my friends and we all are local to each other so I would like to look at the R1 to help solve our issue together. I have a few more questions but I may post them in a more related sub-forum.

 

Thanks.

[major masingil]

Hey Kalamity, 

 

Unfortunately the R1 cannot stop anyone from joining Dedis.  It can only make sure you connect to a dedi within the tolerances you set.  But if you wanted to be on the receiving end of lag comp, you could change your home location or use the ping assist feature in order to connect to a server in the 60ms range, and that could keep you from the ill effects of lag comp. There is much talk about the contention that lower ping is always better, but it's a debate for the ages. I stick to the lower is better camp myself, but what do I know?

 

However if you get into a P2P situation the Geofilter can certainly weed out any players that are outside of the ranges you set.  You can also rate players based on their ping and make sure they do not make it into your gaming sessions. There's more to rating players than just that, but I'll let you ask the questions yourself before blathering on.

 

Besides the geofilter, the R1 really shines at managing congetstion on your home network.  You can limit bandwidth to specific devices, prioritize consoles or computers, and throttle your  networks bandwidth to keep your router's buffer from getting bloated and injecting lag into the game.  It also has a new feature called "Hyper-Traffic" which places your console's packets at the front of the line with the rest of your home's incoming and outgoing packets.  It's a brilliant feature and from what they are saying there's more to come with something that will keep jitter to a minimum.

[K4L4M1TY]

Thanks for the reply, I believe once you have passed a certain up/down threshold ping is the most important, So i've tried numerous ISP's and  modems/routers in the pursuit of better connection. I live in a very small town with less than 1000 people and probably under 500 connections on my exchange so I get very little congestion if any, I do notice that sometimes halfway through a COD game I will go from invincible to a moving target for no other reason than it seems my bullets are less effective than originally were.  This has me worried about buffer bloat and both my routers I use being around 5 years worry about them too. But what really worries me is that I pretty much do fine already 95% of the time with only the occasional bad seed lag comping me. Looks like i'm going to count my clams tonight and see about ordering one of these.

[major masingil]

Thanks for the reply, I believe once you have passed a certain up/down threshold ping is the most important, So i've tried numerous ISP's and  modems/routers in the pursuit of better connection. I live in a very small town with less than 1000 people and probably under 500 connections on my exchange so I get very little congestion if any, I do notice that sometimes halfway through a COD game I will go from invincible to a moving target for no other reason than it seems my bullets are less effective than originally were.  This has me worried about buffer bloat and both my routers I use being around 5 years worry about them too. But what really worries me is that I pretty much do fine already 95% of the time with only the occasional bad seed lag comping me. Looks like i'm going to count my clams tonight and see about ordering one of these.

I have read that going from invincible to moving target is a symptom of jitter with the lag comp algorithms.  I think you'll be happy with your choice if you go with an R1.  It just makes dialing in your network so easy. Once you add that and all the great innovations these guys have introduced, it's a no brainer.  Since I have had my R1  they have done 3 major firmware updates, for free.  The last one they did could have justifiably been a whole new product they could have sold.  It takes some time to really get the most out of your R1, but there are lots of cool people who are really smart lurking around this forum.  Ask good questions and you'll get great answers.  

[fuzzy clam]

I would say if your a gamer this is definitely a good purchase for anyone.With everyones home networks being so busy these day the features on the duma will allow you to control all the devices on your network while gaming to avoid the dreaded LAG that happens with a bogged down home network.

 

And it's always nice to play in lobbies close to your home not half way around the world and the Host filtering let's you control that aspect of your gaming too.

[Netduma Fraser]

Hey, welcome to the forum!

 

Sounds like you've got great advice above. 

 

I will just comment about what you said regarding congestion, that you don't see it due to the size of your town. You can still have congestion within your home if there are lots of devices using the internet at the same time, downloading, streaming etc. That can cause lag/buffering, we can eliminate that. Good that you don't have line congestion though!