Excellent guide, and nicely explained. One often overlooked tip is to powercycle your Modem, Router, Network devices in the chain and Gaming Device by unplugging the mains power for 2 minutes every month or two. This can solve a lot of routing issues and clear the caches, making them perform optimally.
Generally, before changing MTU values id recommend people use PING with some flags to see if the packet is being fragmented, if the packet is not being fragment, it is not much to gain from it. The other thing to consider with MTU is What type of connection you have and any tunnels like gre or vpn and minus the overhead 1500 - 20 =1480 but ping gameserver -f -l 1480 and 1500 is a good start
5Ghz isn't necessarily the best if you're at the outer reaches of your router's range, not good for gaming but if you can't improve that, run speed tests on both 5Ghz and 2.4GHz bands to see what gives you the best results.
Great video, had all sorts of problems with Asus router and software is so complicated returning for the other one you mention in here and setup My and my son's gaming PC first and all the ipads/iphones further down the list. Thank you!
Great video. I tend to get packet loss. Now what happens when I decide to port forward because we have My primary (PC gaming) and 2 additional consoles in same house the others use. If we want to play games such as call of duty and port 3074 is required on both systems to be open to play the game, what would be your recommendation? I’ll be making my pc device priority.
I get that the closer to the server the better but i dont get why apex says Oregon and Texas servers give me 30 ms, but SLC server gives me 60 when i live in SLC.
Dude thats insane because im having the same issue on my Nighthawk XR500! In DumaOs in ping heatmap, it shows me located in Chicago but i live in Upstate NY!! When i ping games to test ping, Chicago always shows 19 ping and NY shows 39-45 ping!
@punksnotdead518 you should be able to change radius start point to your home location in the Geo tab/page. Also should be able to draw your own covered areas by clicking on polygon in the same geo tab
Question: How do I find a server closer to my area if I'm living overseas in Thailand? I surprisingly have pretty fast 5G internet speed (565+mbps dwnld & 160+mbps upld), but when I try to play COD online, my ping is really high (150+mbps) and it's very glitchy. As you stated, I'm guessing that I'm connected to an American server when trying to game online, so how would I find a server to connect to that's closer to me to reduce my ping? Any advice would be greatly appreciated!
I recently switched from Xbox series X to a gaming PC and on my Xbox being hard wired I can go in the settings and test my NAT type to make it open while playing call of duty warzone but on my PC I’m stuck in a moderate NAT type and being moderate it’s restricting the lobbies the game can put me in and my ping went from 10-20 ping on Xbox to anywhere from 30-56 ping!! I’ve tried everything to open my NAT aside from port forwarding which just seems like a nightmare and I don’t want to screw something up so I’m looking into a gaming router to run from my internet box and then hard wire my PC straight to the gaming router but I don’t wanna spend that much money if it’s not gonna make a difference!!
Down to earth explanation, but what about multiple consoles playing the same games at once? port forwarding does not allow for multiple connections? is that correct? if so how do you set up a router to allow smooth gaming across the network with the same console playing the same games e.g xboxes with MW2 or similar?
I wish any of this helped. Randomly went from 35ms to 400 in a day with my newer model TP.. modem is running super fast and only have a few things on the network. Nice tutorial though!
Quick question, I have a tp-link router with wifi coming from the arris surfboard sgb10 modem, so would it even be smart to connect the tp-link router to the modem and use a wired connection from the router to my xbox? And what operation mode should my tp-link router be on, AP mode or router mode?
Put your surfboard sgb10 modem into bridge mode which turns off wifi and then setup you tp link router. Then run everything from the tp link router. Then you can make changes to you tp link router like port forwarding and such stuff that you want to change.
Keep the router in router mode. Not ap mode. If you follow what I said above. That's the best way to have it. I have a surfboard s33 which is just a modem without wifi connected to my tp link archer ax1100. You don't want 2 router connected doing the same thing. That's why I said to put your surfboard into bridge mode.
Hi I have a D-link DWR 978 5g router and wounder what Ping Interval is or what it does, it was 60 as defult and when I use 30 it goes smother but below 30 I getting slow response time with higher up and down speed. conected to it with cable cat6 to PC download speed 370,97 Mbit/s and upload 38,59 Mbit/s and response 14,92 ms I get package loss in cs2 some times and I have another router conected with limit of 100Mbit/s up/down on another router thats mainly used for phones and other stuff, no one is conected directly to 5G router. using fiber network was so expensive and was 100/100 up and down cost twice monthly
Trust me get better isp that good for gaming its not worth spend money and times fiddling as its not gonna make any substantial different. At least thats what I did. Safe more time and money 😂
Bufferbloat has nothing to do with ISP's. It's a home network problem. SQM ensures that no single person can hog all the bandwidth and get ping spikes in games.
Excellent guide, and nicely explained. One often overlooked tip is to powercycle your Modem, Router, Network devices in the chain and Gaming Device by unplugging the mains power for 2 minutes every month or two. This can solve a lot of routing issues and clear the caches, making them perform optimally.
Good, call, the classic "turn it on and off"
if your on PC windows for local cache, command. ipconfig/flushdns
I can't express how much this video has helped me with an issue I've been struggling to resolve for years. Thank you so much, pal
Generally, before changing MTU values id recommend people use PING with some flags to see if the packet is being fragmented, if the packet is not being fragment, it is not much to gain from it. The other thing to consider with MTU is What type of connection you have and any tunnels like gre or vpn and minus the overhead 1500 - 20 =1480 but ping gameserver -f -l 1480 and 1500 is a good start
Nice guide! Lots of value in this, thanks TMP.
Is dmz with port forwarding will work better?
What model of TP-Link router do you have?
5Ghz isn't necessarily the best if you're at the outer reaches of your router's range, not good for gaming but if you can't improve that, run speed tests on both 5Ghz and 2.4GHz bands to see what gives you the best results.
Great info. Thank you for your time and efforts to share this with us all. Very helpful.
Really helped 💯
Great video, had all sorts of problems with Asus router and software is so complicated returning for the other one you mention in here and setup My and my son's gaming PC first and all the ipads/iphones further down the list. Thank you!
I have to put the first modem in bridge mode.
i have the dns settings thing but its gray and i cant click it
Great video. I tend to get packet loss. Now what happens when I decide to port forward because we have My primary (PC gaming) and 2 additional consoles in same house the others use. If we want to play games such as call of duty and port 3074 is required on both systems to be open to play the game, what would be your recommendation? I’ll be making my pc device priority.
Same issues on my setup! My ping is usually 11-19 ms for Call Of Duty with an open NAT, but constantly dealing with random packet loss/burst
Great very helpful, thank you!😊
Great video it really helped me a lot god bless you
I get that the closer to the server the better but i dont get why apex says Oregon and Texas servers give me 30 ms, but SLC server gives me 60 when i live in SLC.
Dude thats insane because im having the same issue on my Nighthawk XR500! In DumaOs in ping heatmap, it shows me located in Chicago but i live in Upstate NY!! When i ping games to test ping, Chicago always shows 19 ping and NY shows 39-45 ping!
@punksnotdead518 you should be able to change radius start point to your home location in the Geo tab/page. Also should be able to draw your own covered areas by clicking on polygon in the same geo tab
Question: How do I find a server closer to my area if I'm living overseas in Thailand? I surprisingly have pretty fast 5G internet speed (565+mbps dwnld & 160+mbps upld), but when I try to play COD online, my ping is really high (150+mbps) and it's very glitchy. As you stated, I'm guessing that I'm connected to an American server when trying to game online, so how would I find a server to connect to that's closer to me to reduce my ping? Any advice would be greatly appreciated!
@@JonesysJourney use noping or exit lag
I recently switched from Xbox series X to a gaming PC and on my Xbox being hard wired I can go in the settings and test my NAT type to make it open while playing call of duty warzone but on my PC I’m stuck in a moderate NAT type and being moderate it’s restricting the lobbies the game can put me in and my ping went from 10-20 ping on Xbox to anywhere from 30-56 ping!! I’ve tried everything to open my NAT aside from port forwarding which just seems like a nightmare and I don’t want to screw something up so I’m looking into a gaming router to run from my internet box and then hard wire my PC straight to the gaming router but I don’t wanna spend that much money if it’s not gonna make a difference!!
Do i still need to port forward specific games if im enabling upnp?
Yes
@@justushilliard6994 thank you
Down to earth explanation, but what about multiple consoles playing the same games at once? port forwarding does not allow for multiple connections? is that correct? if so how do you set up a router to allow smooth gaming across the network with the same console playing the same games e.g xboxes with MW2 or similar?
You can set up multiple port-forwards to individual devices, you can run multiple devices at home with each having their own port forward
Now I know why I need to pay for gaming Router , Thank you Pat !
I wish any of this helped. Randomly went from 35ms to 400 in a day with my newer model TP.. modem is running super fast and only have a few things on the network. Nice tutorial though!
Quick question, I have a tp-link router with wifi coming from the arris surfboard sgb10 modem, so would it even be smart to connect the tp-link router to the modem and use a wired connection from the router to my xbox? And what operation mode should my tp-link router be on, AP mode or router mode?
Put your surfboard sgb10 modem into bridge mode which turns off wifi and then setup you tp link router. Then run everything from the tp link router. Then you can make changes to you tp link router like port forwarding and such stuff that you want to change.
Keep the router in router mode. Not ap mode. If you follow what I said above. That's the best way to have it. I have a surfboard s33 which is just a modem without wifi connected to my tp link archer ax1100. You don't want 2 router connected doing the same thing. That's why I said to put your surfboard into bridge mode.
And typically modem wifi combo like the one you have typically suck.
Is the gaming port the same as QOS?
No
Is there a way to message you Pat privately?
Facebook page messenger
Wow you have amazing hair! and thanks also for the router info.
Happy to help!
Ping running 30/60/100 with often packet lost ps5 is wired and on 5g
Why do u use to router? The asus not enugh for qos?
I have a modem specially set to take advantage of my connection line, which acts as just a wan
Can’t find QOS in my router setting it’s a hitron modem/router there’s no gaming or QOS setting anywhere
Is it your own or rented from your provider?
hmmmm, i still think 1.1.1.1 is still the fastest dns tho
Hi I have a D-link DWR 978 5g router and wounder what Ping Interval is or what it does, it was 60 as defult and when I use 30 it goes smother but below 30 I getting slow response time with higher up and down speed.
conected to it with cable cat6 to PC download speed 370,97 Mbit/s and upload 38,59 Mbit/s and response 14,92 ms I get package loss in cs2 some times and I have another router conected with limit of 100Mbit/s up/down on another router thats mainly used for phones and other stuff, no one is conected directly to 5G router.
using fiber network was so expensive and was 100/100 up and down cost twice monthly
Hey man maybe would you be able to help me I’m trying to figure out a network failed to start on mw2 lol and I’ve tried just about everything
Your port forward page is a scam with virus.
Can u make updated video please
Leaving half way.....more chiter chater than the solution 🤨
Chat chat
Dude, why would you not blur your ip address?????????????
Because it’s not something I’m going to keep.
Trust me get better isp that good for gaming its not worth spend money and times fiddling as its not gonna make any substantial different. At least thats what I did. Safe more time and money 😂
Bufferbloat has nothing to do with ISP's. It's a home network problem. SQM ensures that no single person can hog all the bandwidth and get ping spikes in games.
Bro your double NAT.....you have two dchp servers set up
Not only - public DNS cant make download games faster, smaller MTU doesnt make ping lower etc... :-D
I have to put the first modem in bridge mode.