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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.
This is what I did, but I don't care about anything but the xbox. I disabled the WMM (wireless) QoS. And I left the downstream disabled, which is default.
With Upstream i enabled it, and where you input your max upstream bandwidth, don't actually input your max input 80-95% of what you get from doing speed tests. I get 10 mbps from my isp but i enter 8 into this part of the router. From other qos engine setups this has to be lower than your actual or the qos engine won't work properly.
I went to setup rules and deleted all of the defaults. and setup one custom rule to my xbox's mac address, giving it highest priority.
Anything that does not have a rule setup for it will be given "best effort" priority by default, which I believe is the same as "normal".
I don't care about anything but my xbox, I don't use my internet to the extreme that I am always maxing out my connection, but if you wan't to feel free to setup whatever rules you desire. the rules will limit how much bandwidth can be used for different priorities but it also determines which packets will be processed and sent along their way sooner, think of setting priority to highest as being able to cut in line in front of everything that is not set as highest, (head of line privilages) if you have more than one set to highest however they will be dealt with most likely in the order they are received. I could be wrong but that is how I understand basic qos.
For me I wan't my xbox to have head of the line privileges at all times and Get as much bandwidth as it wants regardless of what else is happening on my network. When i am gaming I don't really care if my girlfriend surfing the web has to wait an extra second for her webpage to load. Get what I'm saying? But I am just a basic user who loves Call of Duty.
I did try DD-WRT (kong's latest build) and setup that qos engine exactly according to the official forum, but it did not perform nearly as well for my xbox in call of duty, so I quickly switched back. But who knows it could have just been a bad firmware load that could have been fixed by trying again, but I didn't bother to try.
With Upstream i enabled it, and where you input your max upstream bandwidth, don't actually input your max input 80-95% of what you get from doing speed tests. I get 10 mbps from my isp but i enter 8 into this part of the router. From other qos engine setups this has to be lower than your actual or the qos engine won't work properly.
I went to setup rules and deleted all of the defaults. and setup one custom rule to my xbox's mac address, giving it highest priority.
Anything that does not have a rule setup for it will be given "best effort" priority by default, which I believe is the same as "normal".
I don't care about anything but my xbox, I don't use my internet to the extreme that I am always maxing out my connection, but if you wan't to feel free to setup whatever rules you desire. the rules will limit how much bandwidth can be used for different priorities but it also determines which packets will be processed and sent along their way sooner, think of setting priority to highest as being able to cut in line in front of everything that is not set as highest, (head of line privilages) if you have more than one set to highest however they will be dealt with most likely in the order they are received. I could be wrong but that is how I understand basic qos.
For me I wan't my xbox to have head of the line privileges at all times and Get as much bandwidth as it wants regardless of what else is happening on my network. When i am gaming I don't really care if my girlfriend surfing the web has to wait an extra second for her webpage to load. Get what I'm saying? But I am just a basic user who loves Call of Duty.
I did try DD-WRT (kong's latest build) and setup that qos engine exactly according to the official forum, but it did not perform nearly as well for my xbox in call of duty, so I quickly switched back. But who knows it could have just been a bad firmware load that could have been fixed by trying again, but I didn't bother to try.