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Xbox one best settings?
Bottom line up front: I am in search of the settings that provide the best online experience specifically for Advanced Warfare (single xbox setup). I.E. provide the lowest latency experience. No I...
- So with Black ops 3 coming out I wanted to make sure I was going to get the best experience that I could.
I did a lot of sole searching and research made the changes and did a proper reboot. So far my online experience is awesome and is like night and day compared to playing advanced warfare. I'm not sure if Black Ops 3 is the only reason or not but I will detail below what is currently working great for me.
On my modem (standard Xfinity modem/router with the 90/15 gb plan) I turned off the firewall completely and set to bridge mode. Then plugged my router into it. For the modem settings for me it was 10.0.0.1 and default username and password (admin and I can't remember PW but you can google it if you have Comcast.
On the nighthawk.
I updated the firmware.
Updated my time zone in the security menu.
Changed the DHCP reservation range to a max of .100
Setup Xbox with a reserved ip (static ip) of .150 (well outside the range of the reserved ips)
Setup port forwarding to the Xbox with
TCP: 80
UDP: 88, 500, 3544, 4500
Both: 53, 3074-3075, 3076, 1863, 16000
I left upnp on
Disabled SIP and set to open
Turned on upstream qos and used the built in speed test to set upload bandwidth.
Edited all default rules with a highest priority and changed to a high priority.
Changed the default Xbox priority from high to highest.
And set up a custom rule to my Xbox MAC address with highest priority.
On the Xbox:
I turned off Kinect and DVR
Left network ip settings to get automatically
But set dns manually (I use 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4)
On my TV:
Game mode on
All reductions and motion smoothing off.
If you have the option choose refresh rate as close to 60 hz as possible
Proper reboot after all settings changed:
Unplug router
Then unplug modem
Then fully turn off Xbox (hold power button until it turns off)
Wait 1 minute then turn on Xbox
After Xbox is on wait at least 5 minutes before plugging in modem.
Wait for modem to fully turn on
Then plug in router and wait for it to fully turn on
Once Xbox connects to XBL go to network settings and run multiplayer test. After test hold all triggers and bumpers until the next screen pops up.
Some of this may not matter but it's what I did and knock on wood I continue to have an amazing experience as I have had so far with black ops 3.
Thank you MetroStar1974 for the reply and you as well wolfn.
-wolfn; I do not have PS4 so I can't help you, I would suggest starting your own thread if you are having problems.
-MetroStar1974 you didn't really answer anything but thanks for trying, as I stated before I had no issues with default settings my quest is to improve latency that is all.
Although I had no problems with default settings I noticed a huge improvement in COD Advanced Warfare after changing some settings (Yes thats right open NAT does not mean your connection is the best it can be) This is what I have done with good results:
under advanced settings; WAN settings;
Disable port scan and dos protection checked
Default DMZ checked and my xbox's static ip address entered
Respond to ping on internet port and Disable IGMP parodying both unchecked
MTU default 1500
Disable SIP ALG checked then to the right open selected
Advanced settings; LAN setup:
at the bottom add reservation setup a static ip address
Advanced settings; QoS settings:
For upload check enable upstream QoS (optimized for gaming)
then click Setup QoS rule and delete all except for the xbox and Netgear EVA rules and change the xbox priority to highest and netgear eva to high.
The only other things I changed which should have no impact was the system time, wifi name and password router login password
Everything else is default UPnP enabled by default (shows xbox ip and port 3074 in the list) and I have no port forwarding rules setup.
Again I had open net and connected just fine without changing anything, however in games such as COD every millisecond counts and I noticed a big improvement with the above setup vs. defaults.
I hope this helps, again I do not claim to know much about routers, but please do not post unless you have something about improving latency beyond "Works Fine".
I'm also not here to argue if you search the internet deep enough you find posts from people who actually understand what is going on when you change different things but even people at that level don't agree about everything. At the end of the day you just have to try different things and see what works, keeping in mind that you can't completely get rid of lag and many things affect it such as time of day and even the TV that you use (if you don't know what I'm talking about look up TV input lag).
-wolfn; I do not have PS4 so I can't help you, I would suggest starting your own thread if you are having problems.
-MetroStar1974 you didn't really answer anything but thanks for trying, as I stated before I had no issues with default settings my quest is to improve latency that is all.
Although I had no problems with default settings I noticed a huge improvement in COD Advanced Warfare after changing some settings (Yes thats right open NAT does not mean your connection is the best it can be) This is what I have done with good results:
under advanced settings; WAN settings;
Disable port scan and dos protection checked
Default DMZ checked and my xbox's static ip address entered
Respond to ping on internet port and Disable IGMP parodying both unchecked
MTU default 1500
Disable SIP ALG checked then to the right open selected
Advanced settings; LAN setup:
at the bottom add reservation setup a static ip address
Advanced settings; QoS settings:
For upload check enable upstream QoS (optimized for gaming)
then click Setup QoS rule and delete all except for the xbox and Netgear EVA rules and change the xbox priority to highest and netgear eva to high.
The only other things I changed which should have no impact was the system time, wifi name and password router login password
Everything else is default UPnP enabled by default (shows xbox ip and port 3074 in the list) and I have no port forwarding rules setup.
Again I had open net and connected just fine without changing anything, however in games such as COD every millisecond counts and I noticed a big improvement with the above setup vs. defaults.
I hope this helps, again I do not claim to know much about routers, but please do not post unless you have something about improving latency beyond "Works Fine".
I'm also not here to argue if you search the internet deep enough you find posts from people who actually understand what is going on when you change different things but even people at that level don't agree about everything. At the end of the day you just have to try different things and see what works, keeping in mind that you can't completely get rid of lag and many things affect it such as time of day and even the TV that you use (if you don't know what I'm talking about look up TV input lag).