NETGEAR is aware of a growing number of phone and online scams. To learn how to stay safe click here.
Forum Discussion
Solved
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.
From my understanding of NAT is that it was created for IPv4 because IPv4 was outdated and it extended the live of IPv4. Since you use IPv6 wouldn't that explain why you are not behind a NAT? Even after I enabled respond to ping on internet port I am still behind a cone NAT but I believe that is as good as it gets with IPv4.
So you are not concerned about the attacks on ports 53, 80, or 3544?
With UPnP you were attacked on more dangerous ports?
I do have cable internet, but I had read some different things about changing mtu to your "optimum mtu" by doing ping tests in the computer console and slowly lowering the mtu of the test until no fragmenting would occur (max mtu without fragmenting). When I did that I found that after adding the 28 or whatever they say you have to add to the result of that test, my optimum mtu was 1452. But I didn't seem to make a difference for me and other stuff i read says to leave it at 1500 so I put it back at 1500 and most likely won't be messing with it anymore.
After initial testing of enabling respond to ping request on internet port, Latency seems very much improved, it also feels laggy but in a good way, as my K/D has improved tremendously on a regular basis and when starting games i get in with the countdown often starting from 15 now instead of 3-10 normally before.
Also after playing all day and checking the logs I did not see any attacks.
So thank you very much for that advice, I hadn't really read anything about it before. But It might be what I have been searching for for years.
With my previous post talking about upload QoS, I think I forgot to mention that I deleted ALL of the default rules and setup one custom rule to my xbox's MAC address. I have heard that setting to the Mac address gets priority (possibly lower latency) and in my testing it definitely did not make it worse.
So you are not concerned about the attacks on ports 53, 80, or 3544?
With UPnP you were attacked on more dangerous ports?
I do have cable internet, but I had read some different things about changing mtu to your "optimum mtu" by doing ping tests in the computer console and slowly lowering the mtu of the test until no fragmenting would occur (max mtu without fragmenting). When I did that I found that after adding the 28 or whatever they say you have to add to the result of that test, my optimum mtu was 1452. But I didn't seem to make a difference for me and other stuff i read says to leave it at 1500 so I put it back at 1500 and most likely won't be messing with it anymore.
After initial testing of enabling respond to ping request on internet port, Latency seems very much improved, it also feels laggy but in a good way, as my K/D has improved tremendously on a regular basis and when starting games i get in with the countdown often starting from 15 now instead of 3-10 normally before.
Also after playing all day and checking the logs I did not see any attacks.
So thank you very much for that advice, I hadn't really read anything about it before. But It might be what I have been searching for for years.
With my previous post talking about upload QoS, I think I forgot to mention that I deleted ALL of the default rules and setup one custom rule to my xbox's MAC address. I have heard that setting to the Mac address gets priority (possibly lower latency) and in my testing it definitely did not make it worse.