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Cannot get network prioritisation to work properly (XR500)
Hi everyone, I recently bought a XR500 Nighthawk gaming router. I cannot however get the network traffic prioritisation to work properly. Sometimes it picks up game traffic (Blizzard launcher) bu...
Hi there - thanks for all the info. Very useful explanation.
From everything you have said, your Geo-Filter and Bandwidth Allocation settings are great. So there’s two things I recommend you do:
1. Traffic Prio - this works by detecting when a console is being played, or when a PC game is being played. It just prioritises those packets. So your CoD game should be fine, but it’s likely WoW is not being detected. Could you clear all the port rules you have added and start again. First, make sure DumaOS Classified games is checked. This will catch most games. Now add the ports for WoW.
After doing this, check that the red light comes on next to ‘High Priority Traffic Detected’ and packets increase. If they’re not, then it means you probably have not added the correct port.
If this is not happening let us know the game you are playing and the ports you have added.
If the overlap issue occurs again, could you also let us know which ports you have added
2. Secondly, and much easier this time, set Anti-Bufferbloat to the mode ‘Always’ when you’re playing, and Never when you’re not. Once we figure out the Traffic Prioritization issue you can then use the more convenient ‘High Priority Traffic Detected’ mode
From everything you have said, your Geo-Filter and Bandwidth Allocation settings are great. So there’s two things I recommend you do:
1. Traffic Prio - this works by detecting when a console is being played, or when a PC game is being played. It just prioritises those packets. So your CoD game should be fine, but it’s likely WoW is not being detected. Could you clear all the port rules you have added and start again. First, make sure DumaOS Classified games is checked. This will catch most games. Now add the ports for WoW.
After doing this, check that the red light comes on next to ‘High Priority Traffic Detected’ and packets increase. If they’re not, then it means you probably have not added the correct port.
If this is not happening let us know the game you are playing and the ports you have added.
If the overlap issue occurs again, could you also let us know which ports you have added
2. Secondly, and much easier this time, set Anti-Bufferbloat to the mode ‘Always’ when you’re playing, and Never when you’re not. Once we figure out the Traffic Prioritization issue you can then use the more convenient ‘High Priority Traffic Detected’ mode
Hi Netduma_Jack,
Thanks for getting back to me so quickly. Apologies, I should've mentioned that I had already set the anti-bufferbloat to "Always".
As for the priority stuff I deleted all the rules I had set up. I've also added custom ports for World of Warcraft.
I've also added the recommended ports for Steam (which include the ports needed for Call of Duty: WWII; which I play via Steam).
I have port fowarding set up for the steam ports, but not the WoW ports.
- Great that sounds like it should work just fine, have you confirmed High Priority Traffic works now?
Oh sorry, it seems like some of my post got deleted.
The prioritisation works for about 1 minute after I launch each game I set ports up for; then it turns off (background packets then continue to rise and the priority packets stop rising). So when I'm actually playing, the packets are not prioritised.
- It sounds like there are some ports missing for the actual game part, double check and make sure you've selected all of them
