VPN tunnel between 2 XR1000

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I usually play Call Of Duty on PS and I almost always play in a party with a friend. We live about 350 miles apart and we get similar pings with the servers around us but sometimes we have to play while we are 1700 miles apart and we have to always have to only keep only one geo filter active because of the conflicts in ping times due to distance but whoever disables the filter usually ends up having a bad gaming experience because the filtering is based on one player so the other one almost always has to suffer. I cannot believe the duma os developers did not think about people that play in parties and did not create settings for this scenario 😩😩😩.
We were thinking of we could create a VPN tunnel between the 2 XR1000s so we could simiulate we are playing din the same location and hopefully improve the filtering process and game experience. Does this make sense and is it possible, if yes, how?
Also the worst experience is when connected to a pier instead of a dedicated server, could Duma Os developers PLEASE GIVE US AN OPTION TO BLOCK PIERS AND ONLY ALLOW DEDICATED SERVERS!!! Thank you very much for your help.

Netduma-Fraser · Answer

There is not much you can do in that scenario as the distances are so far apart. You're best off finding a server that is in the middle of both of you/that you both have a similar ping to. For example, I'm in the UK and one of my friends lives in Japan, when we play Apex Legends together we choose a US server that gives us each 140ms, not great but better for both of us that way. You could potentially do that perhaps but it would create more lag. CoD is a server based game so the peers are misclassified servers, use the Polygon to force the servers and block the others.

RichardRO · Answer

Thank you for the reply. I can clearly see peers labeled as "peer" and servers labeled as "dedicated", are you saying that it is possible to have peers labeled as "dedicated"?
Also using the polygon mode because of the map zoom level it still picks up a lot of area and in densely populated areas like LA it picks up a lot of peers around the server. I am sure it is possible to add an extra filter for dedicated servers only.
Also I am seeing some servers with good connection for my location on the ping heatmap but I am not seeing them show up on my Geo filter map. What is the reason?

Netduma-Fraser · Answer

More likely the other way around, servers can sometimes be labeled as peers but that won't affect the connection either way.  You can zoom in further and then draw the polygon, it won't be peers you're picking up. Ping Heatmap shows all the servers the game has, sometimes when playing some may be offline for maintenance or full etc. You will only see servers when searching for a game.

RichardRO · Answer

I have zoomed all the way to the max and it is still covering a huge area especially the polygon is only allowing a certain way of placing the connecting dots. Overall I am very disappointed with the fact that nobody thought of a way of using the filtering while in a party, my friend and I bought each a very expensive router than we have to compromise on the game quality.Also the interface is acting up at times and I don't get the idea of having a 3 CPU when it almost always stays at 0%.Lastly do you think I would get any benefits from pairing the XR1000 work a cable modem like CM1000 is it going to help in any way??Thank you.

Netduma-Fraser · Answer

Could you provide a screenshot of the Geo-Filter Settings you've got in relation to the polygon and that area and then describe what you wish you could do there? You are very far away from each other, that distance is always going to be a problem regardless of your internet or the devices you use. With the Geo-Filter at least you can use it to find a server between you that gives you both a decent experience. It's not that we haven't thought of it, you can allow your friends and force different servers, what you want is pretty much impossible. The best way as I mentioned is to find a server between you. That is what me and my friend do who lives in Japan and it works very well. The 3rd is for packet acceleration so you won't always see that being used. No I doubt that would help at all - the ping differences in the local network are minimal - 1ms usually.

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