Ace-Deucey Posted June 1, 2016 Share Posted June 1, 2016 In the black ops 3 menu you can see information on your connection and one is your location. If I use my old Netgear router it told me my correct location in Ohio. If i have the Netduma hooked up it puts my location in Maryland. When i used a router with DD-WRT firmware it located me in Maryland also. That's about a thosand miles from my location. This is not a problem per se but was curious why and if I may need to adjust my home location in the Geo-Filter on the Netduma to compensate? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PharmDawgg Posted June 1, 2016 Share Posted June 1, 2016 I wanna say the R1's firmware is a custom version of openwrt so that doesn't surprise me. If you prefer to connect to severs or hosts closer to you then just move you home location on the Geofilter to the correct home location. But that is also the great thing about the R1, ou are not restricted to just your home location. The whole world is you playground. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ColonicBoom Posted June 2, 2016 Share Posted June 2, 2016 Don't worry, it's not the Netduma causing this. Whether you can compensate it, and if that would be of any benefit, I have no idea. I wouldn't think it would matter at all with the Geo Filter though. I'd noticed my BO3 location changing, back and forth several times, months before I got the Netduma. I was just using basic router(s) with standard firmware back then. Mine sometimes thought I was way up North of my true location but sometimes it had me in a different country (still in a UK country but not in England where I actually live). At the moment it thinks I'm in Wales which isn't particularly far but it's still a different country and it's not like London is a small unknown village in the sticks. But it's never recognised me as being anywhere near London. Pretty sure the same thing used to happen in one of the older CoDs too, BO2 maybe or MW3 - can't remember which. I can confirm that mine has definitely changed on at least one occasion when I powered everything down and left it all powered down for a bit. I was suffering the usual laggy crap, noticed the location was off and set about trying to change it. Expect this is due to having a dynamic IP, it gave me a new one and once I was all connected back up I noticed that my location had changed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iAmMoDBoX Posted June 2, 2016 Share Posted June 2, 2016 This happens (from my experience anyway) because your ISP assigns your IP address based off the mac address of the device that is plugged into the modem. So if you are switching routers, your public IP will change and the game could locate that IP in the wrong place. If you want to fix this, go into the netduma settings, go to wan, enable wan mac address and put in the mac address from your old netgear router. Then hit apply, reboot the netduma using the button in the settings, and then finally once it's back on go and reboot your modem. Should show the right location now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ColonicBoom Posted June 2, 2016 Share Posted June 2, 2016 This happens (from my experience anyway) because your ISP assigns your IP address based off the mac address of the device that is plugged into the modem. So if you are switching routers, your public IP will change and the game could locate that IP in the wrong place. If you want to fix this, go into the netduma settings, go to wan, enable wan mac address and put in the mac address from your old netgear router. Then hit apply, reboot the netduma using the button in the settings, and then finally once it's back on go and reboot your modem. Should show the right location now. Mine might have changed when I put my isp hub into modem mode, maybe that carries a different mac address... I don't know what I did really, it was ages ago. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Netduma Fraser Posted June 2, 2016 Administrators Share Posted June 2, 2016 Hey, would just reiterate what everyone else has said. It won't be an issue, especially as you're using the Geo-filter. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ace-Deucey Posted June 3, 2016 Author Share Posted June 3, 2016 I will try your suggestions. Thanks guys! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ColonicBoom Posted June 3, 2016 Share Posted June 3, 2016 New ISP today, wondering if I'll finally be recognised as being in London... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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