Playing with Friends outside your radius

[Infoseye]

My friends that I have added to allowed List, which are out of my radius cant still join my lobby on call of duty. I have to expand my radius over there location for them to join my game. Is there a way around this? maybe a setting I'm not doing right?

For instance I'm in London, Friends are in Africa. I will either move my home location to there location and keep trying until it works or expand my radius from London to cover up there area  which I know isn't practical if correct. Plus I experience low pings, lags due to the distance.

At times is not that bad, but is there a standard way of doing this apart from expanding my radius coverage or moving home location to theirs?

[Infoseye]

I see this icon to what does it mean?

[Netduma Admin]

Either that icon is a friend you have allowed, or it’s a connection that is within your Ping Assist range. 

Here is the guide for allowing friends: http://support.netduma.com/support/solutions/articles/16000089132-how-to-use-allow-and-deny-on-dumaos

Let us know if you need any further help!

[Infoseye]

cheers for the response, but I keep getting this error message when spectating mode is selected.

[Netduma Fraser]

Delete the device then re-add it and select spectating mode, does it work properly then?

[Infoseye]

No that did not fix the error, I deleted it then re-added it.

[Netduma Fraser]

Does it happen if you select any device and spectating mode or is it specifically the console?

[Infoseye]

Well I went further to delete the 'PS4' from Device Manager, that kind of made things worse. Geo-Filer wasn't loading , white cycle kept spinning round like its loading. I was hoping it will later load or bounce back with an error this never happened.

Eventually I resorted to Factory Resetting the R1, which fixed the error. Now I can select Spectate mode no errors come it works has it should.

[Netduma Admin]

Nice one - Factory Reset was going to be my suggestion too. Glad it's all working for you now.