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QOS settings for 1 gig down/40 meg up, Xfinity cable modem
Hi, I’ve been a competitive video gamer for a long time and have just recently decided to buy my own equipment rather than use the ISPs equipment (shocker I know). I love the NETGEAR nighthawk gaming ...
Can you explain to me what “respond to ping on internet port” does? And possibly why it is beneficial to having it on and how it relates to gaming? Thanks for all the advice by the way. Always good to bounce ideas off people.
Not much I can say for what it does, if someone pings your IP address then the router will send a response. I'd normally suggest leaving it on (unless you're very security concious) as I could envisage it might affect the accuracy of the Geo-Filter ping.