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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...
TurtleBird's avatar
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)? 

     

     

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      FURRYe38
      Guru - Experienced User
      Jan 17, 2019

      Outlook doesn't need much. 

       

      What are you doing with Outlook? 

       

       

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        TurtleBird
        Aspirant
        Jan 17, 2019

        My question wasn't really clear - I am looking for Outlook to use less bandwidth. Wouldn't moving the slider to 80% allow Outlook to access more bandwidth? 

         

        I am not doing anything out of the ordinary with Outlook, rather it has some weird issue where it will spike to 15GBs if allowed to (periodically, not constantly).