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XR500 no effect on PS4 PRO ping 61ms average
I recently got the XR500 router for the geo filter and the ability to decrease latency. Before this router I had the orbi ac2200 system there my ping was 58 avg. With the XR500 my ping sometimes gets ...
- What is your physical setup e.g. modem > XR > wired to console. The in game ping includes things like processing delay which all games have so this can vary wildly and there is nothing you can do to affect it. What is the ping you get shown by the Geo-Filter? This will show a direct ping to the server and that is what you can work with in an attempt to lower it.
How were you measuring your ping to the game before and how have you been measuring it when you got the router? MTU won't help with ping but could actually make it worse if it is incorrect, I'd leave it at the default. First thing we need to figure out in order to see what the lowest possible ping you can get is - do a speedtest.net test direct from your modem when nothing else is using the internet, what does the ping say?
- Speedtest from modem directly to MacBook Air is 9ms ping.
In the game game it shows live ping value. I can post a picture if you’d like.- What is your physical setup e.g. modem > XR > wired to console. The in game ping includes things like processing delay which all games have so this can vary wildly and there is nothing you can do to affect it. What is the ping you get shown by the Geo-Filter? This will show a direct ping to the server and that is what you can work with in an attempt to lower it.
- Ping on Geo is 64ms for this current match (typical).
I have modem to XR500 to PS4pro