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TurtleBird
Aspirant
Jan 15, 2019

XR500 QoS Not Working

I am having an issue with my XR500 that I am hoping this forum can help solve.    Occassionally (a few times a day), Outlook running on my Mac spikes to 10-15 Mbps upload. When this happens, it b...
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Netduma-Fraser
NetDuma Partner
Jan 15, 2019
Are you using Anti-Bufferbloat? As it's perfect for preventing spikes like those affecting your network. Suggest you set it to 'Always' and 70% for both download/upload and see if that resolves your issue.
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    TurtleBird
    Aspirant
    Jan 17, 2019

    Thanks for the recommendation. I tried this, and it seemed to help (Outlook only spiked to 5 Mbps) but it didn't totally fix the problem, my voice still was choppy in Discord. Would it make sense to decrease past 70%?

     

    Thanks!

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      FURRYe38
      Guru - Experienced User
      Jan 17, 2019

      What happens with the setting at 80% then try 90%. 

      TurtleBird wrote:

      Thanks for the recommendation. I tried this, and it seemed to help (Outlook only spiked to 5 Mbps) but it didn't totally fix the problem, my voice still was choppy in Discord. Would it make sense to decrease past 70%?

       

      Thanks!

       

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        TurtleBird
        Aspirant
        Jan 17, 2019

        Wouldn't increasing to 80% or 90% decrease the effectiveness of antibuffer bloat (ie would allow additional bandwidth to be consumed by Outlook)?