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XR500 Still experience considerable lagging in game.
I have the XR500 Nighthawk Pro Gaming Router. Listed below is a rundown of information that will (hopefully) help someone aid me in resolving my issues. Firmware:XR500 V2.3.2.40 ISP: Google Fibe...
I just returned it.
Thanks for the reply. When I got the service I thought that having such speeds would easily fix any of the issues I was having while gaming. But, sadly that wasn't the case. The XR500 has made it only marginally better. But, wouldn't disabling those features essentially be like having the same setup I had before spending 300 dollars?
Additionally, I have tried adjusting the badwidth but not without the DumasOS on so I will try that and let you know what happens.
Thanks again.
QoS has been under debate on weather it makes any difference on a pipe as big as 1Gb. Remember the max bandwidth in games isn't that big. I've seen xbox games use 5Mb on some CoD games. Maybe newer games use a bit more. Also remember that QoS is meant for the Upstream mostly. Handling of many upstream data traffic with multiple devices is priority. Espeically on slower ISP speeds, 200 and lower. 1Gb speeds, kind of seems like there is no need for much management if you only have a few devices online at the same time. I had 1Gb service last year with my XR and a few other routers. Never had a need to use QoS on it.
Ok. So, I reconfigured the XR500 settings how you suggested and it doesn't make a difference. I'm still lagging and my ping is all over the place. Although some (very few) are as stable as I've seen it. But what gets me is that no matter what I try I still experience connectivity issues.
If you have any other suggestions that may possibly help I love to hear them.
What is the Mfr and model # of the ISP modem/ONT that the XR router is connected too?
I would test gaming directly with the modem to see if you notice anything different.
I would take a wired PC and use pingplotter.com and test with the pc directly connected to the modem, then test again with the PC and XR connected.
I would also downgrade FW to v32 on the XR500 as well...factory reset and setup from scratch. Do this off line with the XR from the ISP modem so it doesn't update FW. Disable the auto check update. Then connected back to the ISP modem.
- I would first figure out if your connection is stable when just connected to the Google box by performing the test above. Would suggest doing it at different times throughout the day as it can vary. If everything is good on that end and the Geo-Filter is reporting good pings then thats not the issue. The in game ping includes things like processing delay etc that all games have so nothing can be done about that, it's part of playing online. Some games choose to include this in their ping calculation, some don't. I would suggest forcing servers that may be slightly further away to see if they play any better.
