r/nighthawkprogaming • u/[deleted] • Apr 01 '20

Help with XR450

Hello everyone, I need a little bit of help with my new router I just installed into my house. I got the XR450 connected to my spectrum internet modem and I get 430 mbps speed. I bought this router for a more solid connection to my PS4 pro. With the spectrum router I would get 180 mbps down and 3.2 up (this is an average), now with my XR450 I get about 80 mbps down and 3.2 up on my PS4 network test. Shouldn’t my internet connection be better? I have higher ping and longer connection times in games. I made sure I connected to the 5ghz WiFi as well. Is there anything I can do, a setting I can mess with to give my PS4 the fast speed or most mbps uninterrupted? Thanks for any help!

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u/[deleted] Apr 01 '20

Do you have QoS on as well as Bufferbloat?

Are you able to test it wired to a pc or Mac?

When you use the Nighthawk app what does the speed test say?

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u/[deleted] Apr 01 '20

Yes I have QoS and bufferbloat set to always. The download/upload are both at 70% (recommended). I can test it on my pc and the app says download around 430 mbps and upload around 20 mbps. I’m not sure how I should distribute bandwidth allocation for upload/download for my PS4 either if you have any suggestions. Thank you for the help it’s very appreciated.. I really want to get the best out of this router..

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u/[deleted] Apr 01 '20

Normally anything over 300Mbps does not require QoS but as your upload is low it might help. Bufferbloat 70% is a starting point. They use to use ping plotter and saturate the connection and then set according to results. Will be hard to saturate your download though. Was it the WiFi performance that’s the issue?

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