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Gaming Lag
I believe my wife's streaming habits are hogging up all of our bandwidth. What can I do? I've modified congestion control, updated bandwidth allocation, and checked traffic prioritization. What am...
Is the device your wife is streaming from connected to the XR router, or is it connected to the upstream router?
It needs to be connect to the XR in order for QoS to be able to prioritise your games over that traffic.
The PS4 is connected to the XR router through wi-fi (2.4 GHz). The PS5 is hardwired to the router. They are both connected to the XR.
So the streaming is taking place on the PS4?
Can you disable the DumaOS classified games rule, then add a new rule for your PS5 and select 'games console' as the service. See how it feels after that.
Correct. The PS4 has become a streaming machine.
I had a special rule created for the PS5, prior to last night, but it didn't seem to make any difference. The network snapshot photo was taken a few minutes prior to the traffic priority photo. I removed the rule to see if leaving the default options checked made any difference - it didn't.
I wish there was a way to limit bandwidth being allocated to the PS4. Is that a thing?
- You'll need to disable DumaOS Classified Games, it's quite possibly prioritizing the PS4 which is why setting Congestion Control isn't having much of an affect on it, then add your PS5 with the Games Console rule. If that doesn't work then you could limit it but it would limit other devices as well.
