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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.
MetroStar1974 wrote:
I remarked that I improved speed and latency to the best using Google DNS. (my first DNS server is 8.8.4.4 and second server is 8.8.8.8, but you can also try to use it vice versa)
I guess I'm having trouble reading where you said that, but anyways I'm not here to argue.
To clarify, Yes I agree Google DNS provides lower latency than my isp defaults. So this is what I'm trying to ask:
You can change the router DNS servers to google say 8.8.4.4 as primary
You can also change the DNS servers in the xbox through manual assignment, now when you do this the xbox will use whatever dns servers you input to the xbox regardless of what the router dns servers are.
Setting google dns servers in the router settings for both of the following scenarios;
Scenario 1: Xbox dns set to automatically grab from router, when you look in the network settings usually it will just show the 192.168.1.1 as the dns server when using this.
Scenario 2: Xbox dns set to manual assignment and then use google dns, now the xbox will use google dns no matter what the router dns settings are.
and when checking network settings will actually show the google dns servers.
So if by doing scenario 2, the xbox is somehow bypassing the router for dns resolution, then that would theoretically lower latency. or perhaps it still goes through the router and actually causes more latency by confusing things with the router settings. (similar to UPnP and port forwarding confusing each other).
Personally through my testing it seems a little better by setting it manually in the xbox vice the router, but testing takes many days to get a good idea of the actual difference, and is therefore far from complete.
I know its confusing because I am asking some off the wall questions and I am not sure what the best way to ask them is, so I hope this clarifies my question about DNS. And PLEASE don't respond to argue, only if you wish to add constructively to the purpose of this thread, otherwise start your own.
Opinions are welcome but I was more hoping that people who understand this stuff (I.E. have gone to school for this type of stuff) would give some reasoning for why one setting might provide lower latency than other settings, etc.