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Goats
Jan 15, 2019Initiate
Nighthawk XR500 fix for game lag spikes and low upload (Disable QOS)
Picked up this router so that I could avoid a divorce when my wife is streaming and I'm gaming. QOS looked incredibly attractive. Router was appropriately set up with Xbox in DMZ and UPnP enabled (NA...
Goats
Jan 16, 2019Initiate
Hi Fraser,
Sorry for the delay, was giving it some time to get proper diagnostics.
Geo-filter is set to America and Canada Central to East.
My headset is wireless and I'm sitting close to the router but it was never an issue before and isn't now that QOS is diabled.
Regarding the saturation of the 1gbps connection, that's a very good question. My guess was the QOS was throttling what it wasn't supposed to. All devices had poor download and non-functional upload.
IPv6 isn't possible for me. No PPPoE or VLAN.
FURRYe38
Jan 16, 2019Guru - Experienced User
Did you manually set ISP speeds UP and Down on the router under QoS?
Goats wrote:
Hi Fraser,
Sorry for the delay, was giving it some time to get proper diagnostics.
Geo-filter is set to America and Canada Central to East.
My headset is wireless and I'm sitting close to the router but it was never an issue before and isn't now that QOS is diabled.
Regarding the saturation of the 1gbps connection, that's a very good question. My guess was the QOS was throttling what it wasn't supposed to. All devices had poor download and non-functional upload.
IPv6 isn't possible for me. No PPPoE or VLAN.