NeOak
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By chance I found about the Netduma R1 router. The website, http://netduma.com/, claims that the router reduces lag by using a very special feature: a Geo-filter.
Now, I was quite curious. I like to play a lot of Destiny and PvP is a bit of a wash due to the unreliability of the connections of some people. The game just gets any player it can get and puts them in the same match. However, for low population playlists that can lead to awful, lag ridden matches where you can see the game does not register the hits.
I decided I had enough, so I splurged the $200 dollars with the fastest shipping. Two days later, I had this:
I use AT&T U-Verse with the new Motorola/Arris modems for the dual DSL links. It took me 15 minutes to:
The router, set up, looks like this:
Now for the test:
The router supports several games and consoles. Now, the full extent of the capabilities it has, such as the Fast VPN, the anti-flood protection and more, are outside the scope of my impressions and are good if you are a streamer or you get DDoS'ed or you have people hogging your bandwidth.
For the geo-filtering, I used Destiny on PS4. All P2P connections for everything. We played on a playlist called "Inferno Clash". Now, this is a no-radars, team deathmatch playlist, which means that it is low population. Destiny by itself will try to match you with ANYONE it can get because there isn't much people.
Now, my real life friends on Destiny live in different parts of the US, so we end up with people from all over the East, Central and Caribbean in our games. No good.
After starting it and configuring it, our games looked like this:
Now, I am in TX and they are in MD and NY. So we ended up with people in between and good matches. However, I have friends that live in Puerto Rico. Not a problem, just enlarge the radius, whitelist him and then make it smaller again. So, our next two games were like this:
You can see the circle in the Caribbean. BUT my friend in PR was having a bit of lag due to the distance. The routing from there to the US is best for the East coast and it takes a dump when it has to go to Central US. AT&T has a very good backbone for the East coast, even making the twitch server in Miami, FL, the best for me to stream to. One final tweak then:
This was it. No red bars. No yellow bars. All green. No more rage inducing BS because you felt there was lag. It was gone. All the times I died it was because the guy that did kill me in PvP did a better play. I could say that I died because the other guy outplayed me.
This works. It is not a placebo effect. It may be expensive, but due to having a full time job, I'd rather spend the limited amount of time that I play games without rage induced by lag.
So do give it a try. The main developer of this router does answer questions on their forums and you can talk directly to him here: http://twitter.com/netduma . From what I heard, he does excellent tech support in case you have a problem and will work with you to troubleshoot it.
NO CHEATING. No, you cannot match with someone then force disconnect him. The router will keep the connection with that person alive no matter what you do so people can't abuse the geo-filtering. It will only stop someone from finding you again if they leave the lobby, which ends the connection.
Now, I was quite curious. I like to play a lot of Destiny and PvP is a bit of a wash due to the unreliability of the connections of some people. The game just gets any player it can get and puts them in the same match. However, for low population playlists that can lead to awful, lag ridden matches where you can see the game does not register the hits.
I decided I had enough, so I splurged the $200 dollars with the fastest shipping. Two days later, I had this:
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[img]http://i.imgur.com/ns45u4p.jpg[/img]I use AT&T U-Verse with the new Motorola/Arris modems for the dual DSL links. It took me 15 minutes to:
- Update the router to the latest firmware
- Change the bridge mode of the modem so it gave the public IP to the Netduma
- Set up my TP-Link Archer C7 as the wireless AP
The router, set up, looks like this:
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[img]http://i.imgur.com/mX2rtqu.jpg[/img]Now for the test:
The router supports several games and consoles. Now, the full extent of the capabilities it has, such as the Fast VPN, the anti-flood protection and more, are outside the scope of my impressions and are good if you are a streamer or you get DDoS'ed or you have people hogging your bandwidth.
For the geo-filtering, I used Destiny on PS4. All P2P connections for everything. We played on a playlist called "Inferno Clash". Now, this is a no-radars, team deathmatch playlist, which means that it is low population. Destiny by itself will try to match you with ANYONE it can get because there isn't much people.
Now, my real life friends on Destiny live in different parts of the US, so we end up with people from all over the East, Central and Caribbean in our games. No good.
After starting it and configuring it, our games looked like this:
Code:
[img]http://i.imgur.com/2txsgcN.jpg[/img]Now, I am in TX and they are in MD and NY. So we ended up with people in between and good matches. However, I have friends that live in Puerto Rico. Not a problem, just enlarge the radius, whitelist him and then make it smaller again. So, our next two games were like this:
Code:
[img]http://i.imgur.com/7RtK1lv.jpg[/img]You can see the circle in the Caribbean. BUT my friend in PR was having a bit of lag due to the distance. The routing from there to the US is best for the East coast and it takes a dump when it has to go to Central US. AT&T has a very good backbone for the East coast, even making the twitch server in Miami, FL, the best for me to stream to. One final tweak then:
Code:
[img]http://i.imgur.com/5IddBU6.jpg[/img]This was it. No red bars. No yellow bars. All green. No more rage inducing BS because you felt there was lag. It was gone. All the times I died it was because the guy that did kill me in PvP did a better play. I could say that I died because the other guy outplayed me.
This works. It is not a placebo effect. It may be expensive, but due to having a full time job, I'd rather spend the limited amount of time that I play games without rage induced by lag.
So do give it a try. The main developer of this router does answer questions on their forums and you can talk directly to him here: http://twitter.com/netduma . From what I heard, he does excellent tech support in case you have a problem and will work with you to troubleshoot it.
NO CHEATING. No, you cannot match with someone then force disconnect him. The router will keep the connection with that person alive no matter what you do so people can't abuse the geo-filtering. It will only stop someone from finding you again if they leave the lobby, which ends the connection.
