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Yesterday ran into issues again
Do you have more information about what is included in this release? As this is taking so long, my concern is that the backlog of fixes/improvements i growing in parallel. Do we have to wait another ...
- DPI will be improving over time through subtle cloud updates. What games are you playing on the other gaming PC specifically? I'm sure we can find a quicker solution to work in the meantime. Most of the time Valorant is played on that pc.
- Yeah, so all devices/applications on the network will be limited to 70% of the available bandwidth (assuming Congestion Control is set to 'Always'). If a device/application is recognised as a priority according to what's configured in QoS -> Traffic Prio, it will be able to use the full 100% of the bandwidth. You can ensure all devices can use all available bandwidth when there's no priority traffic on the network by setting Congestion Control to 'Auto-enable'. I have set it to "always" for now and the default priority does include gaming console so should be good now.
- Bandwidth Allocation and Congestion Control don't really care about eachother. Bandwidth Allocation can be used to ensure there is always enough bandwidth for each device/application on the network. 20% is more than enough for gaming, it uses less than you'd expect. If you find other devices are struggling, you could even afford to take a little away from gaming. Thanks for explaining. It does feel to me that bandwidth allocation and congestion control are doing a similar job, at least from a gaming perspective. It's just gaming I want to prioritize, am I correct to say that just having congestion control enabled is sufficient?
Thanks again for taking the time to answer the questions. Really great support here on the forum.
Nice, OK so add a new rule to Traffic Prioritisation for that PC and select Valorant as the service. It may not show up in the dashboard on the mobile app, but it'll be prioritised properly still.
You can simply leave bandwidth allocation as it's default if you like, that's a good starting point for most households. Just hit 'Reset Allocation'. Then with your adjustments to Congestion Control, everything should be working nicely.