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disposalist
Mar 16, 2019Aspirant
Anyone actually have gaming prioritization working?
Has anyone actually got this working?
I play Battlefield 1 = I get no latency or jitter warnings.
I watch Netflix or YouTube on the same machine = I get some warnings.
I enable Anti-Bufferbloat at 50% + I set the exact Battlefield 1 ports as priority = I see prioritization happening, but get even more warnings and noticable issues.
I fiddle around changing Anti-Bufferbloat settings and off/on and adding removing the DumaOS Classified prioritization and it never loses the warnings and problems.
It was actually better when I removed all the Anti-Bufferbloat and prioritization settings.
As it is, this process is painful (having to set mutiple port ranges because the basic "Battlefield" setting doesn't prioritize) and doesn't work and I'll be sending the router back.
Am I doing something wrong?
Is this only supposed to work for traffic going to different machines on the network? I'd really like to be able to game and have a YouTube or Netflix vid running.
My PC and GPU can handle it (i9 and 1080Ti) - just need to stop vid interfering with game and thought that's exactly what packet prioritization is supposed to do?
8 Replies
- disposalistAspirant
35 views and no one has gotten it working? Or just not getting viewed by XR700 users?
I just did a test with Battlefield 1 using its network graphing function (very handy for these kind of problems) and they show that there is no difference between QoS on or off when not using Netflix (which is to expected - I just did it to see if QoS does anything weird), but with Netflix running the only difference between using QoS or not was that the latency peaks get HIGHER with QoS ON! What?...
- Netduma_JackNetDuma Partner
Hi there - could you follow this guide please to get QoS setup optimally: http://support.netduma.com/en/support/solutions/articles/16000077073-dumaos-optimal-settings-guide-qos
Let us know if you're still not seeing an improvement after that. BF1 is not currently recognised automatically, so I recommend you manually add the ports to Traffic Prioritisation.
If you need help with that, please let us know.
- disposalistAspirant
I did do all that (as I explained in my posts).
I tried with all set (anti-bufferbloat, gaming PC with majority bandwidth allocated, and specific TCP and UDP ports and ranges prioritised).
I tried with various combinations being on/off and with different amounts in bufferbloat and bandwidth allocation.
Nothing fixed the issue.
Netflix on = pulses of latency increase.
Netflix off = steady low latency.
Even tried running netflix on another PC on the network and on my phone. Using the phone app the pulses were less frequent, but still there.