Geo filter or VPN

[Clydefrog]

Hello,

I want to buy the nighthawk xr1000.

I need to play a call of duty title that no longer has servers on xbox in my country. 

If I change the geo filter home to say USA, could I join USA lobbies to play the game ? Or do I need a VPN - I note hybrid VPN is not available on the newest router model. 

[Netduma-Liam]

As long as the ping to the US servers isn't too high you could definitely do that. Also, HybridVPN is coming to the XR1000 in the next update.

[Clydefrog]

Thank you ! One last question, this is for an xbox, does the XR1000 allow for easy port forwarding and open Nat type ? I tried to do this with my TP link (only an ISP provided one) and no matter what I did I could not get internet connection to the xbox gave it away in the end. 

[Netduma-Liam]

Yes, it should all be done automatically with UPNP so you shouldn't need to worry about it. If you do have any issues though it's pretty easy to setup manually so we could certainly help you with that.