NETDUMA 3 geofilter does nothing WARZONE ping still the same as old router

[MackMurder]

WARZONE 3

OLD ROUTER

while searching for game starts at 47ms, goes up to 80ms, the 90ms before it finds a game.........In game latency is 93ms

NETDUMA 3  ROUTER

with geofilter on and set to washington server radius

while searching for game starts at 61ms, goes up to 80ms then 95ms....in game latency is 100ms

The picture with the circle is my location in the middle. Im in Alberta, canada. 

The 40ms dot is the washington circle the best warzone server close to me.

I tried the custom geofilter and the swt one and made radius bigger. Both make no difference

DUMA3 is definately doing something. Increasing my latency by about 7ms and not correctly finding warzone server and staying strictly on that server

Ping optimizer on. Ping stabilizer. 

Im hardwired directly to DUMA 3 with NOTHING else plugged in. 

I bought this router strictly to drop my warzone ping. Seems incapable of doing that. Anything else to try before i return this and lose close to 100 bucks on shipping and import charges?

 

 

[Proud R3 Owner]

Disable Geo latency and set ping assist to 0.  Honestly take off steady ping it'll add ~10ms to try to buffer out any spikes, making your overall latency higher. Make sure you've got strict mode enabled and fast search off. Use simple mode to make a small radius around your intended server (custom is kinda glitchy) and you should be able to connect to that server consistently. Now sometimes it'll take longer to get into a game because you're trying to force that server but that's normal.

[Netduma Fraser]

Good advice above, in addition, how have you setup Congestion Control/SmartBOOST?

What is the model of the modem/router the R3 is connected to and how have you set that to ensure all traffic flows to the R3? E.g. R3 in its DMZ, modem/bridge mode.

Are ALL devices connected to the R3?

[MackMurder]

3 hours ago, Proud R3 Owner said:

Disable Geo latency and set ping assist to 0.  Honestly take off steady ping it'll add ~10ms to try to buffer out any spikes, making your overall latency higher. Make sure you've got strict mode enabled and fast search off. Use simple mode to make a small radius around your intended server (custom is kinda glitchy) and you should be able to connect to that server consistently. Now sometimes it'll take longer to get into a game because you're trying to force that server but that's normal.

Allright

1.I tried to take off steady ping had no luck finding it now after initially setting it up. Any idea where it is? 

2. Is strict mode / fast search in warzone settings or duma4 os? Didnt find anything like that in warzone settings for network/interface

3. Like I mentioned in my above post I used custom and I used (set) but meant simple geofilter. Neither worked to locking onto the 47ms server they both went up to over 90 ms when they couldnt find a game. 

3 hours ago, Netduma Fraser said:

Good advice above, in addition, how have you setup Congestion Control/SmartBOOST?

What is the model of the modem/router the R3 is connected to and how have you set that to ensure all traffic flows to the R3? E.g. R3 in its DMZ, modem/bridge mode.

Are ALL devices connected to the R3?

Hey fraser. 

1. Only set my priority to gaming. Like my above post said. Nothing else was plugged into the duma 3 accept my PC hardwired. No phones or devices or anything were hooked up to wifi. 

2. HITRON 

model#EN2251

And I didnt set it to anything. Just followed the directions that you guys put on your duma3 box and the netduma3 setup instructions from your youtube channel. Didnt realize there was more instructions somewhere for existing routers?

I hardwired my an ethernet cable from the BLUE connection on duma 3 to my 2.5ghz connection on my ISP router. 

Then my PC is hardwired to the yellow #1 connection on duma 3.

[Netduma Fraser]

49 minutes ago, MackMurder said:

Allright

1.I tried to take off steady ping had no luck finding it now after initially setting it up. Any idea where it is? 

2. Is strict mode / fast search in warzone settings or duma4 os? Didnt find anything like that in warzone settings for network/interface

3. Like I mentioned in my above post I used custom and I used (set) but meant simple geofilter. Neither worked to locking onto the 47ms server they both went up to over 90 ms when they couldnt find a game. 

Hey fraser. 

1. Only set my priority to gaming. Like my above post said. Nothing else was plugged into the duma 3 accept my PC hardwired. No phones or devices or anything were hooked up to wifi. 

2. HITRON 

model#EN2251

And I didnt set it to anything. Just followed the directions that you guys put on your duma3 box and the netduma3 setup instructions from your youtube channel. Didnt realize there was more instructions somewhere for existing routers?

I hardwired my an ethernet cable from the BLUE connection on duma 3 to my 2.5ghz connection on my ISP router. 

Then my PC is hardwired to the yellow #1 connection on duma 3.

Steady Ping is at the top of the Geo-Filter Map, click it and you can disable it from there. Strict etc is in Geo-Filter settings, click the  top right of the page and go to settings.

Add your device to SmartBOOST as well as that will help. No that's fine, you're using a pure modem there so it doesn't have any settings and they're not needed. 

Try this:

1. Quit the game and game client completely (e.g. Steam, Battle.net including from the System Tray)
2. Remove device from the Geo-Filter
3. Resync from the Geo-Filter Map menu
4. Re-add the device to the Geo-Filter
5. Set up the Geo-Filter how you like
6. Wait 2 minutes
7. Boot up game

Then see if it works better to get the game you want.

[MackMurder]

1 hour ago, Netduma Fraser said:

Steady Ping is at the top of the Geo-Filter Map, click it and you can disable it from there. Strict etc is in Geo-Filter settings, click the  top right of the page and go to settings.

Add your device to SmartBOOST as well as that will help. No that's fine, you're using a pure modem there so it doesn't have any settings and they're not needed. 

Try this:

1. Quit the game and game client completely (e.g. Steam, Battle.net including from the System Tray)
2. Remove device from the Geo-Filter
3. Resync from the Geo-Filter Map menu
4. Re-add the device to the Geo-Filter
5. Set up the Geo-Filter how you like
6. Wait 2 minutes
7. Boot up game

Then see if it works better to get the game you want.

Ok Did EVERYTHING you said. Even pressed reset button on router and reset everything. Did all startup from scratch. 

-Took steady ping off. 

-Added my device (pc (mackaronni) to top priority but it shows offline while searching for game. Sometimes it goes to online but then quickly shuts off back to offline. 

-doesnt find a game at 47ms so switches to a server thats 193ms away then logs into game. (HOST : LOS ANGELES 70MS to 91ms)

-in game latency is 92ms

Included screenshots of me in game and the duma4 os live settings

-so everything actually got worse. 

The washington server is well withing my geofilter and has 39 to 42ms ping but it refuses to connect me to it.

 

[Netduma Fraser]

You're on an older firmware so get yourself upgraded to this one: https://forum.netduma.com/topic/56107-new-r3-firmware-40236/ which is two versions about yours and see if it is any better then please.  

 

[MackMurder]

4 hours ago, Netduma Fraser said:

You're on an older firmware so get yourself upgraded to this one: https://forum.netduma.com/topic/56107-new-r3-firmware-40236/ which is two versions about yours and see if it is any better then please.  

 

Ok in this order

-Got everything upgraded to new firmware

-cleared cache/temp files

-Reset ISP modem.

-Reset duma router

-turned on ISP modem

-turned on duma router

-reapplied all duma settings

When starting warzone match it was at 47ms while searching, took 4 minutes then switched to 200ms and found a match on a server in San Jose well out of range of my radius

Once in game the latency was 89ms

It keeps saying my PC (MACKARONNI) is offline, it flickers on and then off again maybe every minute. 

looked at the duma os in overlay while I was in game and everything still said offline. 

🤷‍♂️

[DARKNESS]

@MackMurderDid you actually disable geo-latency?

[MackMurder]

1 hour ago, DARKNESS said:

@MackMurderDid you actually disable geo-latency?

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Nope. I tried doing it with geolatency off and it doesnt find a match. Just tries to connects at 200ms then when it starts to connect to a server it goes back down to 55ms and keeps searching.

Geolatency has always been on.

[DARKNESS]

@MackMurder

• Do you live around washington? If you want specific server area you need to disable geo-latency if not it will put you outside the area as it intended to work with some games but from my experience it doesn't so in a way it just a disable toggle feature. 
• What game mode are you playing specifically? As if there fewer players that'll answer your long queue times/games say 200ms as it searhing etc but it really searching with geo and won't be accepted till it finds a server on that area.
• Player Base Wise that NA-WEST so I would expect some issues that's why certain games have ranked modes and such at certain times such as fortnite do to low player count on selected regions. I'd say use polygon mode and select the servers that have the lowest ping and see if you get better results will monitoring geofilter and check what servers are being blocked and check ping if they're suitable.

[MackMurder]

2 hours ago, DARKNESS said:

@MackMurder

• Do you live around washington? If you want specific server area you need to disable geo-latency if not it will put you outside the area as it intended to work with some games but from my experience it doesn't so in a way it just a disable toggle feature. 
• What game mode are you playing specifically? As if there fewer players that'll answer your long queue times/games say 200ms as it searhing etc but it really searching with geo and won't be accepted till it finds a server on that area.
• Player Base Wise that NA-WEST so I would expect some issues that's why certain games have ranked modes and such at certain times such as fortnite do to low player count on selected regions. I'd say use polygon mode and select the servers that have the lowest ping and see if you get better results will monitoring geofilter and check what servers are being blocked and check ping if they're suitable.

I tried doing it with geolatency off and it doesnt find a match. Just tries to connect at 55ms then goes to 200ms then when it starts to connect to a server it goes back down to 55ms and keeps searching.

And no I  live in alberta canada but Washington has 39ms ping and is the best servers according to DUMA WARZONE servers but no matter what I do, geolatency on or off, ping stabilizer on or off, geolatency set to custom or simple set to the range of the best WARZONE or COD servers it always puts me 90 to 110ms dogpoopy servers away in Utah or SanJose

I hAve fast search off, strict mode is on.

 

 

 

 

 

[MackMurder]

[Netduma Fraser]

If you disable filtering on the device so you're just letting the game decide where to put you, do you ever get that lowest ping server at all?

[DanologyUK]

On 7/19/2024 at 8:29 PM, MackMurder said:

Ok Did EVERYTHING you said. Even pressed reset button on router and reset everything. Did all startup from scratch. 

-Took steady ping off. 

-Added my device (pc (mackaronni) to top priority but it shows offline while searching for game. Sometimes it goes to online but then quickly shuts off back to offline. 

-doesnt find a game at 47ms so switches to a server thats 193ms away then logs into game. (HOST : LOS ANGELES 70MS to 91ms)

-in game latency is 92ms

Included screenshots of me in game and the duma4 os live settings

-so everything actually got worse. 

The washington server is well withing my geofilter and has 39 to 42ms ping but it refuses to connect me to it.

 

Errr you do realise you can screenshot just the Duma screen? You are sharing your p()rn bookmarks 😂

[MackMurder]

3 hours ago, DanologyUK said:

Errr you do realise you can screenshot just the Duma screen? You are sharing your p()rn bookmarks 😂

So?

[MackMurder]

20 hours ago, Netduma Fraser said:

If you disable filtering on the device so you're just letting the game decide where to put you, do you ever get that lowest ping server at all?

I played about 50 matches no lie. Been doing this for 2 days straight. Trying simple and custom geofilters. Constantly banning servers and allowing others. At this point i probably got 10+ on the allow list (and about 100+ banned) from washington to chicago to LA and have them within geofilter but it will only log onto them once in a blue moon.

 

. Got logged onto the washington server 3 times. No matter where i have my geofilter set it repeatedly puts me in servers outside of the geofilter. Like constantly. Seems to be a complete crapshoot. 

The chicago servers say their 60ms. But when i log onto them in game latency is 81ms

The LA servers  (which do not show up at all on your geofilterservers list for warzone or call of duty and have better PING than the SANJOSE servers you do show ) fluctuate between 66ms in game (60ms on server map) and 80ms in game when they say 60ms on server map which i find odd that one LA server is 67 ping and the one beside it is 80 ping. 

The washington servers are the only true servers that say their 40ms when i log onto them in game its 37ms. 

but like i said only connected to those 3 times out of 50. Chicago maybe 5 times. And LA maybe 4.

 

So with the netduma and geofilter set im at about 10% finding a server thats decent and 5% funding a server thats amazing.

My ping without the duma3 is 91ms regularely. 

Most of the time with the duma it puts me in games outside of my geofilter around 87ms to 93ms

Not worth the router if im being honest. The idea is great. The fact it only works randomly seems to be the same chances i could get without it. 

Ive been at this all day. Sunup to dundown and some last night trying all sorts of diff combos. Rebooting the router and the modem and the pc etc.. etc..

 

[Netduma Fraser]

Do the following please:

1. Quit the game and game client completely (e.g. Steam, Battle.net including from the System Tray)
2. Remove device from the Geo-Filter
3. In the Device Manager give the PC a PlayStation device type
4. Resync from the Geo-Filter Map menu
5. Re-add the device to the Geo-Filter (it should now add with the Console service)
6. Set up the Geo-Filter how you like

I've added a step to the above. Always use the simple radius mode for the moment. Make sure Geo-Latency is disabled. Remove all the denied servers you have added, when someone has added so many the likelihood of blocking something that is required to get you a game increases. Once you've done all that actually reboot the PC, then try again please.

[MackMurder]

9 hours ago, Netduma Fraser said:

Do the following please:

1. Quit the game and game client completely (e.g. Steam, Battle.net including from the System Tray)
2. Remove device from the Geo-Filter
3. In the Device Manager give the PC a PlayStation device type
4. Resync from the Geo-Filter Map menu
5. Re-add the device to the Geo-Filter (it should now add with the Console service)
6. Set up the Geo-Filter how you like

I've added a step to the above. Always use the simple radius mode for the moment. Make sure Geo-Latency is disabled. Remove all the denied servers you have added, when someone has added so many the likelihood of blocking something that is required to get you a game increases. Once you've done all that actually reboot the PC, then try again please.

Copy thanks Fraser I will give it a try. Might be another 24 hours can post results

[Netduma Fraser]

No worries at all, take your time!

[Alias 1aB]

just a suggestion, but instead of making a big geofence box, keep it smaller to the areas that would connect to the closet server to you (seattle). then make little boxes where the chicago, northern california, and utah servers are located so the game has at least 4 different servers it can look for games on. draw small square boxes so those servers are allowed.

I live in the middle of the US and have drawn a box that basically connects to Dallas, Chicago, St Louis, or Atlanta servers but I drew a small box for Utah and Seattle because later at night it wont find games as easily sometimes. When I tried to create a geofence with only the Dallas server, it would take forever to find games and sometimes when it did, it would not connect to the dallas server do that was pointless. and yes I have ping assist set to ZERO.

Every internet provider if different and every scenario is going to be different for each person so it may take a bit of trial and error. The DumaOS software is a nice piece of software but there are going to be places where people live that nothing is going to help them reduce their ping.  Best of luck to you.

[MackMurder]

On 7/21/2024 at 2:54 AM, Netduma Fraser said:

Do the following please

1. In the Device Manager give the PC a PlayStation device type

 

Wasnt able to get on yesterday. 

Trying to sort it now. 

What do you mean in Device Manager give the PC a PlayStation device type. 

I can rename the PC but cant find anywhere to turn it into a PlayStation device type. 

[Netduma Fraser]

It's right under where you rename it, with all the symbols

[MackMurder]

35 minutes ago, Netduma Fraser said:

It's right under where you rename it, with all the symbols

Still not seeing it.

[Netduma Fraser]

The device manager on the router interface