Netduma R3 with Lagofast or Exitlag and question on Ping optimizer

[ShanaSakai]

Got my R3 on Wednesday, and so far it's good, however I do have a lagofast subscription, and when I use it, it looks like it disables the geo filter of the R3? So basically Lagofast and Exitlag won't be compatible with the geo filter of the R3 correct? But ping optimizer and steady ping should still work?

Another question on the ping optimizer, I've read here that the auto test does not work (it also keeps giving me a ping optimizer has encountered an error), so I did manually. my speed should be 250 up and down, but the speed test says 300 ish for both, so I manually changed it to 250 Mbps for both just to be safe, and then for the slider in advanced of ping optimizer, i put them down both to 50%, but bufferbloat test still says grade B, which is mainly caused by the upload (the test showed that my download when under load only get a +12 ms, it's my upload that gets a +28-35 ms when under full load). Is Grade B good enough? Thanks!

[Netduma Fraser]

Those programs/services are essentially VPNs which means you're creating an encrypted tunnel from your device to their servers so the router cannot reliably determine where you're connecting to in order to filter. Your experience may vary but I would generally say it's not going to work as well. Steady Ping relies on the Geo-Filter being able to see the game host/server and be able to ping it (which isn't always possible anyway due to game servers not responding to pings) so if you're not seeing a server on the map when using both together and you're not showing a ping then that aspect won't work. Ping Optimizer is unaffected by using those services.

On the Congestion Control part make sure to disable Speed Test Bypass, otherwise the speed test will read like you have full speeds and your percentage changes won't properly be affected, then try again. Personally I think people hyper focus on the results too much as with Congestion Control active your connection cannot be saturated and so bufferbloat can't occur. However, you should be able to improve upon the results the site shows you by disabling bypass and fine tuning the percentages further - we usually suggest starting at 70%.

[ShanaSakai]

Ah disabling speed test bypass did the trick, thank you! Yeah I'm still trying to use the R3 just with Delta Force, I was using it with lagofast before but while it lowered my ping by like 50 ms and made it more consistent, but there was that server that still has issues and jitter was another thing. I'll stick with R3 for now, maybe try exitlag and see how that goes. THank you for the help!

[Netduma Fraser]

No worries at all, do keep us updated and any questions/issues just ask!