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Lag while raiding playing Everquest mmorpg
I’m getting lag while raiding, burning while playing Everquest mmo. I have a fiber connection with 1000 download and 40 upload. I have my XR500 router QOS set to 90 upload and 90 download. 60% of my bandwidth applied to the PC I’m playing on. The s8000 switch is in gaming mode. I have QOS applied through the router and the switch is just in game mode but not limiting any bandwidth in settings. I just built the PC, Intel 9900k, Asus max hero mobo, 16gigs ddr4, rtx2070. Win 10, Latest drivers etc. I don’t think it’s a hardware problem. I think it’s something related to my network settings. I was adjusting my network QOS to dsl reports best settings but I was told not to. Not sure if it’s my router QOS settings or what? I’ve tried using ping plotter to saturate my connection and adjust QOS but it’s not working because of the fast download speed. Suggestions?
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Most sites recommend disabling QoS above 500 mbps. Is there a reason you've setup qos with a 90mbps speed when you have a gigabit connection? have you tried disabling it?
- I’m sorry if I wasn’t clear. I have the QOS upload and download sliders set to 90 which I believe lowers my upload and download bandwidth by 10%. Most of the videos I’ve watched on QOS and bufferbloat recommend leaving some headroom in the que?
Since you download is greater than you upload, try setting the download slider to 99% and leave your upload slider at 90%.
When you gaming are others online streaming data from the internet? If not and your the only one online playing games, you could set both sliders for 99% and see how that does.
For most 1Gb services, QoS could be disabled however the Upload should match the download speeds for this to be effective.
EQJunky wrote:
I’m getting lag while raiding, burning while playing Everquest mmo. I have a fiber connection with 1000 download and 40 upload. I have my XR500 router QOS set to 90 upload and 90 download. 60% of my bandwidth applied to the PC I’m playing on. The s8000 switch is in gaming mode. I have QOS applied through the router and the switch is just in game mode but not limiting any bandwidth in settings. I just built the PC, Intel 9900k, Asus max hero mobo, 16gigs ddr4, rtx2070. Win 10, Latest drivers etc. I don’t think it’s a hardware problem. I think it’s something related to my network settings. I was adjusting my network QOS to dsl reports best settings but I was told not to. Not sure if it’s my router QOS settings or what? I’ve tried using ping plotter to saturate my connection and adjust QOS but it’s not working because of the fast download speed. Suggestions?Thanks Furry,
I'm normally the only one using the internet. My main priority is lag while raiding in Everquest on my PC. I have seen several vidoes that recommend leaving the QOS sliders in DUMA at 70 for upload and download. I have also heard a lot of people recommend adjusting the sliders according to the best bufferbloat readings via dsl reports. I've also tried saturating my connection and adjusting the sliders while monitoring the connection with pingplotter but my internet speed makes it difficult to properly saturate the connection. And now I'm hearing that you should disable QOS all together with gigabyte internet speed. It's just a little confusing. I seem to only get lag when we are raiding and there are 54 players piled on top of one another all hitting our buttoms at the same time.
- So you have a gigabit connection is that right? Anti-Bufferbloat may not be as effective here but I would suggest you use Traffic Prioritization. Find the ports online for the game and make a manual rule for that. That will put your gaming packets ahead of everything else.
