cyberswine Posted December 27, 2018 Share Posted December 27, 2018 New XR500 user. Router ran well for two days, all as expected. Third day my already skinny upload was reduced by about one third all the time. DSL numbers with PS4 off OR on: "High Priority Detected": 25 down 1.5 to 2.5 up sliders at 100% (tried multiple slider settings also) "Never": same as above QOS disabled: 25 down 3.5 up. Normal speeds on alternate routers. (At the distance limit for the DSL line, no more to be had at any price) Tried: power offs, software reboots, reload known good configuration back up, factory reset, flush of all temp files etc on laptop and PC. Confirmed current firmware installed. Got me beat right now, what am I missing? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Netduma Fraser Posted December 27, 2018 Administrators Share Posted December 27, 2018 Hey, welcome to the forum! Are these speeds through the PC or the PS4? Are you using bandwidth allocation/with share excess on/off? Is High Priority packets detected and are high priority packets increasing when doing a speed test? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cyberswine Posted December 27, 2018 Author Share Posted December 27, 2018 And thanks for the reply.... All speeds are from PC or laptop, mostly DSL reports (couple others to keep it all honest) Bandwidth allocation is on.... doesn't really need to be...share excess is ON anyway. FYI I am port forwarded and reserved PS4 IP is in DMZ. Also with "never" use QOS set the upload is restricted but I do get AAA on DSL reports. 40ms ping in BOps4 BUT game play is now a few steps behind all the time. Was excellent before the up speed slowed. Er, um, can't see where to isolate high priority packets, help please Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cyberswine Posted December 27, 2018 Author Share Posted December 27, 2018 So I just set the PC upload allocation to 100% and the full speed is restored. Appears the excess share is not effective, PS 4 is off, no other devices connected.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Netduma Fraser Posted December 27, 2018 Administrators Share Posted December 27, 2018 Go to Network Monitor when you do a speed test and the upload is lower, is there anything else using up the bandwidth? Also with every test is speedtest using the same server? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cyberswine Posted December 27, 2018 Author Share Posted December 27, 2018 Thanks, found it, there are no high priority packets during speed tests at different providers. Also same server used continually just now when checking the bandwidth allocation. With share excess ON I need the PC set to 100% to get the full upload speed on the PC even though it is the only device connected. I also unchecked, then rechecked the box just as a best practice And no, nothing else is running on the PC. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Netduma Fraser Posted December 27, 2018 Administrators Share Posted December 27, 2018 There is a share excess button for both download and upload, are you certain that the one for upload is checked as it sounds like its not if giving 100% to the devices achieves high speeds. If it is then as I say just check the Network Monitor to see what else is using bandwidth even if nothing is connected as far as you're aware. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Killhippie Posted December 28, 2018 Share Posted December 28, 2018 12 hours ago, cyberswine said: Thanks, found it, there are no high priority packets during speed tests at different providers. Also same server used continually just now when checking the bandwidth allocation. With share excess ON I need the PC set to 100% to get the full upload speed on the PC even though it is the only device connected. I also unchecked, then rechecked the box just as a best practice And no, nothing else is running on the PC. Is there a red dot on in high priority traffic by any chance? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cyberswine Posted December 28, 2018 Author Share Posted December 28, 2018 Killhippie: thanks, no red dot visible with no high priority traffic. Once I found that window lurking and hiding under my laptop screen I understood. NFraser: both radio buttons were set to share excess. The situation was (essentially) resolved by simply using the Reset Distribution and returning the three devices I have to the default 33 33 and 33. There was no other significant traffic on the home network at any time, just Windows and Router background chatter using minimal bandwidth. Once I had the full upload speed restored on the PCs I went ahead and recalibrated the sliders and got the best game performance back. Don't understand but don't matter I guess. What is still odd but kind of moot is that as soon as I set to "Always" for a PC speed test I still lose a third of the upload speed with the sliders at 100%. Set to "Never" or "High Priority Only" with sliders at 100 I now get full upload again. FYI only or if any of this helps anyone else...... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Netduma Fraser Posted December 28, 2018 Administrators Share Posted December 28, 2018 That's very strange, may of got itself into a weird state. Glad its working now though. Have you entered your expected speeds into Anti-Bufferbloats settings correctly? If they're lower and QoS is on it'll take those values as the max. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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