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Netgear Nighthawk XR500 slow speeds
We recently purchased a XR500 and after setting it up with the aid of he only video currently available on youtube (Thank you Sim) we are now finding that our 2 hardlined devices are seriously not...
So, I had an amazing experience with the router first day but then the next day I started experiencing nasty lags. I already set my anti bufferbloat to 70 each for download and upload, as well as setting the geo filter to 1000 miles. Am I experiencing this problem because not all of my devices I had connected to the previous wifi are connected to my xr500? Or is it because of something else? Please help I bought this router mainly for gaming on my ps4, but I have it setup on wifi because my modem is located in the living room, and my ps4 is in my room.
If not all your devices are connected behind the XR500 then QOS can not take effect properly as it will not be able to control all devices. ALL devices need to be connected behind the XR500 for QoS to be most effective and stop any local congestion. Make this change and have Anti-Bufferbloat set to Always.
- So I’ve tried what you told me to do, but I am still experiencing bad lags when I’m gaming.
- Please follow our optimal settings guide: http://support.netduma.com/support/solutions/articles/16000077071-dumaos-optimal-settings-guide-accessing-dumaos-step-1- if you're still having issues after following it all please make a new topic with your settings and ping you're getting to the game
- So far I followed the guidlines and I noticed a better difference. I am not lagging as horrible as I was before but I am still lagging just a little bit. My ping is at 40ms by the way and I didn’t really change anything in the settings. I kept the bandwidth at 70 each for download and upload as well as setting the anti bufferbloat at always. I’ve also change the geo filter in the profile to fortnite (since I mainly play fortnite).