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Netgear XR500 Nighthawk suddenly giving me higher ping hardwired
So I have a question that is driving me nuts and maybe someone here can help. I have a Netgear Nighthawk XR500 router. When I game on my pc, I get 30-32 ping plugging directly into my modem. When I p...
Thanks, so upload needs to be more fine tuned than download really. Adjust the Congestion Control slider for Upload while set to Always, then redo Benchmark. Keep doing that until you find a value that makes Ping Under Load closer to the Ping Test results.
I changed it to Always and dragged the Upload slider to 90%. Seems like it got worse.
- Generally you want to lower it to have more of an affect, you'll have to experiment with percentages, it's unlikely changing it once will get you there
Yeah nothing really has an effect on the ping. It is still higher than it ever was before
I just ping tested 4 game servers I typically connect to and got an average of 44-48 ping connected to the router. When I plug directly into the modem, I get 30 ping. How is a gaming router adding 15 ms latency? I know it is not a lot for browsing the web, but that makes a big difference on Fortnite.
Do you know if you require PPPoE, VLAN or DHCP identifiers in order to get connected to the internet?
If you lower the upload slider all the way down to 30%, and set Congestion Control to 'Always', what results do you get from Connection Benchmark?