Factory Reset Results

[DumaRocks]

I just recently purchase the Netduma R1 and been having mixed results. I had some early issues with the settings taking effect in game and factory reset helped fix that. Recently I have been getting really laggy lobbies and finally I did another Factory Reset and since than my hit detection is on point. I have no idea why a factory reset would have any effect on that. I don't believe I have enough games in yet to determine if it is the R1 reset or if I have just been lucky enough to get some good lobbies but it was like night and day once I did that.

Has anyone had a situation where doing a Factory Reset gives you better results? If so, why would I need to do two factory resets inside a couple of week of purchasing. Recently I did remove Wi-Fi capabilities from my Comcast modem. Would a change in settings to the modem require a reset. I don't mind doing the reset since the CP is so easy to make changes but I hope I don't have to do this every couple of weeks if that is the result, of course I will make do if I do.

 

It's probably too early to make that assumption so I will wait it out and see. If anyone does have any input on this, I would really like to hear it. Just want to get a handle on this whole thing. 

[ColonicBoom]

I had a weird problem that a factory reset cleared a few weeks back, I don't know what caused the problem to suddenly arise or how the reset fixed it but it did.

It happens with all kinds of electrical devices if you think about it - I'm forever doing hard resets (not factory) to my phone and my old windows laptop.

 

It's very difficult to judge if it's made a difference through gameplay alone though, as each lobby varies wildly (from minute to minute sometimes), you own connection can fluctuate, your neighbourhood can get online or all go to bed early, the dedi could play great or horribly, the other people in the lobby affect the connection massively too.

 

And that's not to mention how after a few bad games we start to see problems everywhere and then it quickly becomes a self-fullfilling prophecy as we give up 'playing properly' and just run headlong to our death over and over. This is when I always take a 10 minute tea break and reboot everything, it's that or smash the tv.

 

In my case I suddenly started seeing extremely erratic and constant ping spikes on pingplotter while my xbox was on (not even in a game), I factory reset after trying all sorts of things and like magic the problem went away completely. I expect I had been changing settings so often that I ended up overloading the system or something (if that's possilbe), like too many clicks on an old windows laptop and then it has a brain freeze of sorts.

[DumaRocks]

I had a specific problem that a factory reset cleared a few weeks back, I don't know what caused the problem to suddenly arise was or how the reset fixed it but it did.

It happens with all kinds of electrical devices if you think about it - I'm forever doing hard resets (not factory) to my phone and my old windows laptop.

 

It's very difficult to judge if it's made a difference through gameplay alone though, each lobby varies wildly (from minute to minute sometimes), you own connection can fluctuate, your neighbourhood can get online or all go to bed early, the dedi could play great or horribly, the other people in the lobby affect the connection massively too.

 

And that's not to mention how after a few bad games we start to see problems everywhere and then it quickly becomes a self-fullfilling prophecy as we give up 'playing properly' and just run headlong to our death over and over. This is when I always take a 10 minute tea break and reboot everything, it's that or smash the tv.

 

In my case I suddenly started seeing extremely erratic and constant ping spikes on pingplotter while my xbox was on (not even in a game), I factory reset after trying all sorts of things and like magic the problem went away completely. I expect I had been changing settings so often that I ended up overloading the system or something (if that's possilbe), like too many clicks on an old windows laptop and then it has a brain freeze of sorts.

That would make sense when I compare that to my experience, I have been modifying my settings trying to hone in on a perfect settings, scenario but all of sudden it seemed like I started to get into more laggy lobbies than not no matter what I did, what mode/type I played or when I played. The factory reset seemed to help. Now I am only touching the range when it seems necessary. I will play through the weekend and if I have the consistency I am having now after the reset, it is good enough for me. I tend to judge more on how consistent the laggy lobbies are vs the good ones are. When I find a good lobby, I try to stay in it for as long as I can but that doesn't seem to last because there are always constant flow of people in and out.

 

I hear what you are saying about the the self-fulfilling prophecy. I always second guess my self, is it my aim? is it the time I am playing? Is it my ISP? ... and so on. I try not to judge anything by itself even though you start down that path of frustration, it's hard not to.

 

[Dennis Pantalone]

Dear Raymond Kennedy,

 

(OOH de COLONIC... so you suffer the same with him??)

 

 

Me, Dennis Pantalone has the same issues as you are having lately. I am using the Duma on a proper way for a long time but the "strange" things keep coming up. If you ask a simple question on the forum COLONIC will help. The answer from the pro's ( NOT COLONIC, he is a wannabee) will always be: use cable, its the servers, its your isp.

 

I use everything like a pro. Maybe not???

 

I think the answer is in the middle.

 

The DUMA is good but it gives you so much variables that the Duma gets fucked up. Its the coding from some very enthousiastic people. But think about Philips and Apple.. They want to simplify everything because it gets to complicated.  If you have that in mind and you know that the bo3 servers are updated, overloaded, saturated each time it will result in stress, problems, malfunctions. etc.

 

If you live in Australia or Africa, i think the results you get from the duma are way better than if u use the duma in the Netherlands like i am. I have 3 dedi's in 300 km..... One on a 10 ping(dutch) one on 15-20 German and 1 France on 25 ping or UK.. the same...... So they all are good from what is known from the internet... Below 60 m/s ping is great? I notice the difference on my bullet count... I play hardcore.. Ranked high in the world... Dutch servers: 2 bullets, german 3, france 4.....????? Nooob, counting bullets... I know.. 

 

Keeping all the variables in mind i think we,i ,you,and black ops 3 get issues with each other.

 

My latest discovery is that if you hard reset everything and you play on 1.03g and u use cod ultimate settings the ping and stability is great.(for me) I get a 6-10 ms flat ping line every time.

That wasn't the case a few days and weeks ago before i hard reseted everything. I discovered pings from 1200 m/s not noticable on ping plotter or dsl report but noticed on the duma. Maybe it was my ISP etc. But a hard reset helped me out.

 

So my answer will be: all the variables on the Duma (that's really cool) can cause issues if u use them, it will inflict your overal experience on blops3 because David Vonderass watches Youtube also and tries to get everybody with or without a duma the same experience.

 

So: maybe?? the duma is overpowered in a way to blops 3 and vice versa.

 

Like i said: use cod ultimate, don't change a thing, maybe a little cc but test that on dsl. For me from 70 cc to 65 cc to get a a+-a+ and a -c on dsl. That wasnt the thing for me from day one.... i had to play on cc-25 to get the a+ etc. From january this year... 

 

Strangly after using the duma for a long time the results i get now from playing at cod ultimate is the best experience for me for nowadays.That was never the case for me before. I needed to play on CC25-25 to get on dsl an a+ and a+. Now i play ultimate on 70-70 and my line is perfect. Never before. Now I didn't change anything and dsl reports is stable again for me, that wasn't for a few weeks.

 

I think it will be good for the duma (user) to simplify a few things because the coding gets overloaded by all the adjustments people can make and do make. And what if 2 or 3 people use a duma in your party???? with all the adjustments they do??

Then the next thing is the blops3 coding and servers, it is very though to give everybody the same experience. So thats the next big thing. One game you go 40-5 and the next game to the same people gets you a 25-25 kd f.e.

 

So, thats the server host thing, that was always the case with call of duty and will never change i guess..

 

So.... Colonic is a wannabee, forget him and try this shit i said to u... Use cable, use the flower if you have more components connected and use cod ultimate.... but the servers from cod are also like COLONIC.... They wave where the winds are blowing....

 

 

I hope that I gave u a answer u can deal with and have results with... Otherwise.... Listen to Colonic... he is 24 hours a day on the forum and doesn't play COD because he is a wannabee forum guy with some mental issues......

 

Thumbs up... Sorry for my imperfect English... I am a fucking dutch retard from 10 years old..... Colonic? 

 

Grtz from HATE-RATE... 

 

 

Eau de Colonic smells like shit! Mama shit....

[ColonicBoom]

That would make sense when I compare that to my experience, I have been modifying my settings trying to hone in on a perfect settings, scenario but all of sudden it seemed like I started to get into more laggy lobbies than not no matter what I did, what mode/type I played or when I played. The factory reset seemed to help. Now I am only touching the range when it seems necessary. I will play through the weekend and if I have the consistency I am having now after the reset, it is good enough for me. I tend to judge more on how consistent the laggy lobbies are vs the good ones are. When I find a good lobby, I try to stay in it for as long as I can but that doesn't seem to last because there are always constant flow of people in and out.

 

I hear what you are saying about the the self-fulfilling prophecy. I always second guess my self, is it my aim? is it the time I am playing? Is it my ISP? ... and so on. I try not to judge anything by itself even though you start down that path of frustration, it's hard not to.

 

 

It was exactly that for me, I noticed consistently laggy lobbies that my team mates weren't seeing.

I used pingplotter to check my line, it was solid as long as my Xbox wasn't turned on but it went nuts as soon as it was turned on.

 

I had changed so many settings I didn't know where I was in the end and the factory reset fixed it right up instantly.

 

I only mention the self-fulfilling prophecy because it happens to me all the time, if the first few deaths feel unfair then I lose my cool and die way more than I should because of my own lack of calm. Then the next lobby I expect it to be bad and don't play properly because of it, repeat ad nauseam.

The servers are in such a mess at the moment too, it's a real shit show on BO3 since some time last week (at least).

[ColonicBoom]

So.... Colonic is a wannabee, forget him and try this shit i said to u... Use cable, use the flower if you have more components connected and use cod ultimate.... but the servers from cod are also like COLONIC.... They wave where the winds are blowing....

 

Otherwise.... Listen to Colonic... he is 24 hours a day on the forum and doesn't play COD because he is a wannabee forum guy with some mental issues......

 

Thumbs up... Sorry for my imperfect English... I am a fucking dutch retard from 10 years old..... Colonic? 

 

Grtz from HATE-RATE... 

 

Eau de Colonic smells like shit! Mama shit....

 

Hi Dennis,

 

I'm not really sure what the majority of your speech was about but it's good to see that you're trying to recover from the beat-down I laid on you yesterday.

 

It's also good to see that you're trying to help people but if you can somehow leave the personal stuff behind then people will have a bit more respect for you.

Not a lot more obviously because you're clearly a five-star dickhead.

 

Maybe we can settle this with a 1 v 1 on Black Ops, preferably not sniping as I'm not really into that kind of trickshot stuff.

I hear (from you) that you're pro-level and you've probably heard (from me) that I'm faster than Michael Flatley (and I taught him to dance) - so it should be a great match!

 

We can even have a wager if you like, not sure about the stakes though... What do you think?

If you win then I'll get my Mum to bake you a nice pie with a filling of your choice.

But if I win then your Mum can be the pie and I'll deal with the filling.

Does that sound fair?

[faulko]

The servers are in such a mess at the moment too, it's a real shit show on BO3 since some time last week (at least).

 

The servers are always messed up, just because you dont feel it doesn't mean crap isn't affecting other people.

 

SBMM is the worst decision ever, they have taken too far, so far in fact i can have a good game in the first half, everything feels as it should but then the second half is complete garbage and we loose.

 

Or the first half is good, then the start of the second half is garbage then like flicking a light switch its all back to normal for the last minute or so.

 

Dont get me wrong sbmm is needed to a certain point but these dev's and content owners are kidding themselves if they think they are on the right track.

[ColonicBoom]

The servers are always messed up, just because you dont feel it doesn't mean crap isn't affecting other people.

 

SBMM is the worst decision ever, they have taken too far, so far in fact i can have a good game in the first half, everything feels as it should but then the second half is complete garbage and we loose.

 

Or the first half is good, then the start of the second half is garbage then like flicking a light switch its all back to normal for the last minute or so.

 

Dont get me wrong sbmm is needed to a certain point but these dev's and content owners are kidding themselves if they think they are on the right track.

 

I didn't say that I don't feel that the servers are messed up, I said they are at the moment (and badly messed up) and I am feeling it.

 

I don't agree with that, they're not always messed up. If it's affecting some people and not others that immediately tells you that it's not always the servers. But if you're in Australia then you'll never be on the same servers that I'm on, the same goes for different systems too obviously.

I was just answering the question about factory resets because I've experienced what he asked about.

 

I don't much like SBMM, I like to pub-stomp.

[major masingil]

That would make sense when I compare that to my experience, I have been modifying my settings trying to hone in on a perfect settings, scenario but all of sudden it seemed like I started to get into more laggy lobbies than not no matter what I did, what mode/type I played or when I played. The factory reset seemed to help. Now I am only touching the range when it seems necessary. I will play through the weekend and if I have the consistency I am having now after the reset, it is good enough for me. I tend to judge more on how consistent the laggy lobbies are vs the good ones are. When I find a good lobby, I try to stay in it for as long as I can but that doesn't seem to last because there are always constant flow of people in and out.

I hear what you are saying about the the self-fulfilling prophecy. I always second guess my self, is it my aim? is it the time I am playing? Is it my ISP? ... and so on. I try not to judge anything by itself even though you start down that path of frustration, it's hard not to.

 

Hey Raymond how's it going? 1 major piece of advice I have taken from this forum is to set your CC sliders, put your console in hyper traffic and forget about the R1 and enjoy the game. Tweaking your settings every few minutes doesn't do much for you except take fun out of your game. Your settings really only effect your home network. If you're always connecting to dedicated servers, you can adjust the way you use the geofilter. When I use it all I care about is getting a low ping server. I move my home location to the middle ocean and set it as small as it will go. Then I adjust the ping assist slider to a value that I think is acceptable. This way I am only getting servers within the ping assist value I set. Your R1 can't do anything to help with the other players who connect to the same server. If they have crap Internet or are from really far away they are going to negatively effect everyone they encounter in the game. Just remember the same jittery stuff happens to everyone in that game with you. It's not always a problem with your settings, but if you focus on it and believe it's your R1 causing the problem it will really eat at you. Set the CC sliders to 70%, console in hyper traffic, share excess ticked, and if you use the geo, set your ping assist and forget the rest. Enjoy the game and remember it's a game not life or death.

[DumaRocks]

I think I found settings that work most of the time. The factory reset really did help though. Might try your suggestion next time things get really bad in game. I noticed last night partying up with someone from a far away state really did effect my game. Dude freaked out when I guessed what state he was from since it was the only icon on the map outside of radius and it had a different blinking icon. I had to change my class to compensate for the lag. I can give the netduma credit in one regard for sure, it gives you information on why you might be lagging. If you are connecting within your radius, it's hard to figure out what the cause is but the rare occasion it pulls someone from somewhere else, it kind of makes sense. Not sure how useful that will be accept maybe deciding to back out of a lobby but it was interesting to see.

[Victor-Yout]

Had same feelings about good hit detection after ive done a factory reset, but didnt post it because i thought people call me crazy

[Netduma Fraser]

Keep us updated on how you get on raymond!

 

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and Dennis... leave your issues with Colonic at the door. If you two have a problem with each other then sort it out elsewhere, not in a thread where someone is asking for support. It doesn't help anyone. 

[UK_Wildcats_Fans]

I will share my most recent experience.   I have TWC (San Diego, CA) with 300/20 bandwidth.  I play COD BO3 exclusively.  I did a factory reset about 4 weeks ago to clear out a ton of devices that had accumulated over time from various parties, friends and family.   It has been running until about a week ago.  I have not changed any of the settings or experienced any atypical issues (i.e. networks outage, power outage, power spikes, lightening, etc.) Over the past week, I have been sick (bad cause of the flu) and only got online a limited number of times.  Therefore, I did not know whether it was the illness or an actual bad lobby or two so I just ignored it.  I was feeling better yesterday and started playing some BO3.  I notice some very erratic host pings and extremely laggy games.  I ran some speedtests and checked bufferbloat which resulted in some very irregular performance.  I then noticed that "super turbo" was checked when it was not set before.  I tried testing again which it unchecked, resetting distribution, CC, etc.  Unfortunately, it did not change anything.   In my troubleshooting, I also reset the modem. None of my attempts improved the situation.  I then decided that something in the Netduma firmware must have gone corrupt.  I did a factory reset and started over. This fixed the issue and the Netduma was operating as it had before.   

 

I don't know whether the firmware got corrupted on it's own or whether it got corrupted somehow via the browser.  Either way, it is working now after a factory reset.

 

Update:  Playing on it for the past couple of days, my host ping are been the steadiest since I have owned the Netduma.  It is VERY close to a flat line.