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XR500 with Chromecast and gaming
I just purchased the XR500 and have watched multiple videos on the set up of the device as well as reading the helpful tips to prevent lag throughout the gaming experience.
What I want to know ...
I apologize...the issue I'm having is based around the PS4 lagging significantly when the chromecast is turned on.
Through my network monitoring it is using significantly more than my ps4 and is hogging about 2/3rds of the bandwidth total.
I have my anti-bufferbloat selected to Always as well.
- What is your physical setup? It sounds like the XR500 doesn't have full control over devices otherwise your settings would work.
Remove manual rule for PS4 in Traffic Prioritization and keep DumaOS Classified Games enabled, it covers consoles also. The PS4 definitely doesn't need that big a chunk of bandwidth, games use less than 1mbps. I'd reallocate your percentages and then disable Share Excess in the download/upload of bandwidth allocation. That will ensure the devices can never take more than you've allocated.Okay.
My physical setup is ps4 connected ethernet. My chromecast is being casted from a samsung phone (which I did a little more research and found that some samsungs have bad bursts of packets coming through). However, upon looking into the chromecast a little bit more. My buffering issue did not go away when I allocated a little more than just the 8mpbs that it states for 1080p.
So, in theory what you're saying Netduma-Fraser is I should reallocate the %s back to normal distribution? Does that work well enough? I just want to ensure we're not having issues while playing PS4. I also want to be able to have my chromecasts work simultaneously as my fiance likes to watch netflix if she's upstairs.
My download is 120mbps and upload is 13mpbs with 15-30ping Case850
- I meant more of modem > XR500 etc but thanks! As if you reset allocation to default with share excess on then Anti-Bufferbloat should eliminate the issue you're having - make sure its set to always.
