I turned on Ping assist, set it to 60, and it still lets peers connect to me that are well above this threshold. What gives?

That's why I suggested it ping the peer more than once. My router shows the ping as it fluctuates. I believe it would be easy for it to let it detect that a few times before making a decision. And if it fluctuates an higher than the set threshold after say 10 seconds it no longer will have the option to refuse. That way you can't expect it to kick people out of your game once it's underway.As I said, many games have a short timer to accept matches when it's a peer to peer game like say, street fighter or Tekken. That should be plenty of time for the router to make the call on an unstable ping above the threshold.

I guess thats cool. My idea is more like, prior to connection if the ping fluctuates way too much out of range to just deny the peer. I understand why you'd say about cheating. Once you connect to them don't just cut the connection but rather within a set polling time if it goes above the threshold block the peer. Example, Street Fighter V has a 15 second time frame to accept a match. If you make the assist poll 2-3 times within say 5-10 seconds, it can see the ping is bad and above the limitation set and put the bad triangle on it on GeoFIlter. Most peer to peer games have a long polling time like this for the player to accept the match, with the exception some shooters don't use a server and might poll similarly without the option to accept it. Perhaps also consider making GeoFilter work for PC not based on game engine, but maybe by game clients. Steam, BlizzApp, Origin, etc. So far most games I play require me to add my PC as a console.

After using the feature for a little while it just quits working all together. Radius does work fine but I get people with rather high pings around me as my areas is surrounded with rural parts and poor ISP. Wifi players are also prevalent to many games I play creating high pings. It worked for a few hours and now today it just does not work at all, and to get it working I had to downgrade and upgrade my firmware. Pings of 120ms in South America pop up on my screen and are given the okay to connect. I set my assist to 40ms and it doesn't even care. I don't think this needs an upper limit setting I think the whole damn option is broken and needs to be rebuilt. There is no way some of these peers started below 40ms when they are this far away. I'm sure this won't get fixed anyway. I've seen a bunch of threads now about different things giving "suggestions" to devs and yet we have not seen a fw update since last year.

I understand they are the same besides a slightly less powerful 2.4ghz band. Everything else is identical. However I believe putting XR500 firmware might not work or cause a brick. I could be wrong but that be my experience with past routers with identical hardware but different names. But yes, I believe they came to the concolusion on the NetDuma forum it's related to SFV. You can see the thread here.https://forum.netduma.com/topic/29120-ping-assist-problems/In fact you participated in it.

To help people understand, i made my geofilter super tiny so most everyone is outside, and yet it lets people and servers connect to me that are well above my set 60ms. https://i.imgur.com/OCh7Qef.png

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heroxoot
Apprentice
Aug 06, 2019
To help people understand, i made my geofilter super tiny so most everyone is outside, and yet it lets people and servers connect to me that are well above my set 60ms.

https://i.imgur.com/OCh7Qef.png
- Netduma_Alex
  NetDuma Partner
  Aug 06, 2019
  Try downgrading to the original fiwmare: https://kb.netgear.com/000053241/XR500-Firmware-Version-2-0-0-28
  
  And then upgrading again: https://kb.netgear.com/000060464/XR500-Firmware-Version-2-3-2-40
  
  This will uninstall and reinstall Ping Assist and hopefully fix the issue.
  - heroxoot
    Apprentice
    Aug 06, 2019
    Still not working. I installed the previous FW which removed Ping Assist. Reinstalled 2.3.2.40 and did a factory reset. Everything else that I had malfunction with now seems to be working properly, yet ping assist just let someone in france with a ping of 90 connect to me while my assist is set to 60. Pretty sure my circle over a 3rd of the US does not reach France.

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