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francric
Jun 24, 2018Aspirant
XR500 Why 70%
Why is 70% recommended in QoS? Why not 80% or 75%? Why is that the magic number?
francric
Jun 30, 2018Aspirant
Ok, I soon as I get a moment I'll play with my bufferbloat settings and do a test with and without a load. Thanks everybody.
francric
Jun 30, 2018Aspirant
Here is one no load, 93 down and 74 up
http://www.dslreports.com/speedtest/35281113
This is load with same down and up. Playing COD, apple tv (netflix) and youtube vid on PC
http://www.dslreports.com/speedtest/35283583
Do we know if this site is working correctly?
- francricJun 30, 2018Aspirant
Here is another one with load same as above but 73 down.
http://www.dslreports.com/speedtest/35283962
- KillhippieJul 01, 2018Prodigy
This one is better but on upload you go to a potential 89ms that's way high. You need to play with Bufferbloat and get the best settings, that's why 70% is given as the best option to start. I would set it to "when priority traffic is detected" Then start gaming. You will see a drop in your overal speed on whatever you test, this is why in QoS you can give more to devices you want to have higher priority both for up download and upload. When you finish gaming it will go back to full speed. Can you give the result using what ever online fps you play, Fortnite/COD etc so I can see the results of the test, please remember that the DSL reports test is not that reliable as has been stated at the moment. Its better than nothing though. Akso not you wont get an A+ with antibufferbloat on, please read this from fraser and the Netduma forum.
" If DSLReports is giving you an A instead of A+ but you could get an A+ on the R1 why does this occur? Does that mean that Anti-Bufferbloat isn't working?
"The reason you do not get an A+ is because our enterprise level deep packet inspection analyses the first few packets of the test, this means that DSLReports misreads the result of the bufferbloat test. It is not Anti-Bufferbloat not being able to get an A+, it is DSLReports misreading our DPI as bufferbloat/latency when it is not.The XR500 also has hardware accelaration which means it is a seriously beast piece of kit meaning it can do QoS at gigabit speeds easily so it has absolutely no trouble mitigating local congestion. You're getting the best QoS on the planet so nothing to worry about!
If you want to know if Anti-Bufferbloat is actually working we recommend using PingPlotter (Here's a quick guide on how to use it doing the following tests):
- Saturate your connection as much as possible (download, stream HD videos etc), then do a PingPlotter test and see how much your ping rises.
- Then do the same test except all you do is set Anti-Bufferbloat to 'Always' and put the sliders down to 70/70. You WILL see a substantial difference here.
Just to reiterate, bufferbloat (lag/latency) only occurs when your connection is saturated. With Anti-Bufferbloat enabled your network is never allowed to become saturated and therefore you do not experience bufferbloat."
- francricJul 01, 2018Aspirant
The last test I did, 35283962, I was playing COD, had a netflix show running and a youtube video running. Down was 93, up was 73. I also have "when high priority traffic detected" checked.
- Netduma-FraserJul 01, 2018NetDuma PartnerAs mentioned I recommend you use the guide I gave you to determine QoS effectiveness