cwspellowe Posted November 22, 2016 Share Posted November 22, 2016 Hi all, Bit the bullet and bought a Netduma R1 last Friday after yet another load of rubbish from Bungie in their Weekly Update, decided to take matchmaking matters into my own hands. Fed up of skill ratings apparently being favoured over connections, a friend reminded me of the Netduma, quick browse of Amazon and it was here with me on Saturday along with a dual band access point. Couple of things about me, I'm a network engineer at a major ISP in the UK so I know my way about stuff but I'd been lazy with my home network and used the ISP's freebie hub which, being honest, was a bit... basic. Whacked it in modem mode, banged in the Netduma and the AP, and wow what a difference straight away purely in the time taken for devices to connect to the network. It could take 10-15 seconds on the ISP's hub, almost instant with the new setup! I'm a pretty hardcore Destiny player on PS4, I'm sure some of you are experienced with the typical lobbies you get, I'm frequently being matched with top 1% DTR players currently and connections suffer as a result. Spent the weekend playing with Geo-Filtering though and wow, what a difference. All weekend, I think I had two noticeable moments of lag/dubious hit registration, everything else was smooth as butter. I'm actually a little amazed at how good the game can be while simultaneously annoyed I had to spend a decent chunk of money to be able to play the game as it should be. Hey ho, John Dillinger found me on Twitter and suggested I sign up, I've a few questions I'll bring up in due course about functionality and peculiar hiccups, but for now, hi, happy to be here Chris Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Netduma Fraser Posted November 22, 2016 Administrators Share Posted November 22, 2016 Hey, welcome to the forum! Fantastic to hear you're enjoying the router so much and experiencing a real difference. We'll be happy to answer the questions you have! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cwspellowe Posted November 22, 2016 Author Share Posted November 22, 2016 Cheers Fraser, seen as you're here ill ask away haha. First, I haven't run my PS4 on a Destiny profile, I've been using my own manual settings to start with. My geofiltering is set to 1700km and 35ms at the moment and matchmaking seems to be unaffected, no noticeable delays. However, if I get kicked for inactivity I've found I can't reconnect to the Destiny servers unless I reboot the Netduma and PS4, happened last night when I went to eat dinner and when I came back I'd been kicked from orbit and had to try and sign in again. The same thing seems to happen if I turn on geofiltering before joining a PSN Party Chat, I get loads of NAT issues. My map shows dedi servers in East/Central USA when I try and join, could the geofiltering be affecting me connecting to the PSN servers leading to these issues? I'm running the Netduma straight off the modem with an ethernet connection to the PS4, I've tried switching between upnp and manual port forwarding and it doesn't seem to make any difference. Is it recommended to only enable geofiltering just before you start matchmaking into a game? ie once I'm all set up, party is organised and game is fully booted up? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PharmDawgg Posted November 22, 2016 Share Posted November 22, 2016 Welcome to the Netduma forum. Don't hesitate for post is you have any questions, concerns or comments Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Administrators Netduma Fraser Posted November 23, 2016 Administrators Share Posted November 23, 2016 Cheers Fraser, seen as you're here ill ask away haha. First, I haven't run my PS4 on a Destiny profile, I've been using my own manual settings to start with. My geofiltering is set to 1700km and 35ms at the moment and matchmaking seems to be unaffected, no noticeable delays. However, if I get kicked for inactivity I've found I can't reconnect to the Destiny servers unless I reboot the Netduma and PS4, happened last night when I went to eat dinner and when I came back I'd been kicked from orbit and had to try and sign in again. The same thing seems to happen if I turn on geofiltering before joining a PSN Party Chat, I get loads of NAT issues. My map shows dedi servers in East/Central USA when I try and join, could the geofiltering be affecting me connecting to the PSN servers leading to these issues? I'm running the Netduma straight off the modem with an ethernet connection to the PS4, I've tried switching between upnp and manual port forwarding and it doesn't seem to make any difference. Is it recommended to only enable geofiltering just before you start matchmaking into a game? ie once I'm all set up, party is organised and game is fully booted up? You need to have strict mode off when playing Destiny. That should stop any booting occurring. You also do not need ping assist on. You could also probably reduce your distance to around ~1000km. Any servers like that will be automatically whitelisted. Having trouble connecting to party chat will be because you're blocking those players, you'll need to add them to your allow list so you can always connect to them: http://support.netduma.com/support/solutions/articles/16000022357--with-the-geo-filter-how-do-i-play-with-friends- You can have the Geo-filter enabled before you even turn the console on Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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