I game on an Xbox one x console maybe someday on a computer. I don’t care about wireless at all, if it has that’s ok to but I can turn wireless off so no biggy. As far as modem I run cable internet. 500 down and 30 up. Usually run 560 down and 38 up. I know it’s more about quality than speed. My Xbox has a latency of 50-74 which I think is high. This is nothing on but Xbox on the network. I was thinking arris sb8200 or netgear cm1000 modem. I’ve looked into the netgear xr700 router, the Linksys wrt32x, also the asus ROG routers. If there is a better choice please suggest. I’ve ran cat 7 cable, changed dns servers, dmz on Xbox, static ip for Xbox, ran both ipv4 and ipv6 ip addresses, ran new coaxial for modem (Coaxial is to modem only), Fios is not available to me so stuck with cable. Usually play Call Of Duty. Nothing has got my latency where I fell it should be. I know it could just be my isp. I’ve had a truck here multiple times. Sometimes they just adjust the signal. I believe it is an isp problem but would like to make my network top notch to at least help make up for the poor quality connection I have.
Need a gaming router and separate modem
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anotherdrew
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If the Xbox is the only device on your network, then you don't even need a router. A router (well, the boxes we call routers) allows many devices to use one connection. Of course taking the router out of the equation will not reduces your already low ping by much. Maybe 0.5 ms. The majority of the latency comes from your ISP and the internet. Running tracert will show you some information on this. A program like pingplotter will show you more.
For example, if I ping google.com I get a pretty consistent ping time of 52 ms.
If I tracert google.com I find that my packets are off my network (standalone firewall, router, modem) in about 1 ms. They are on the ISP backbone in about 17 ms. Hit the local MAE in about 20 ms and then in 43 ms they are across the country to the home of google where they bounce around for another 10 ms before getting to google (this is actually a simplified way of looking at it ... ping is really the time there and back). So, everything is really fast ... the biggest slow downs are getting onto my ISP's backbone and then getting from the middle of the US to the California. Those 2 things account for 40 ms of my 52 ms ping time to google.com ... my network accounts for 1 ms.
For example, if I ping google.com I get a pretty consistent ping time of 52 ms.
If I tracert google.com I find that my packets are off my network (standalone firewall, router, modem) in about 1 ms. They are on the ISP backbone in about 17 ms. Hit the local MAE in about 20 ms and then in 43 ms they are across the country to the home of google where they bounce around for another 10 ms before getting to google (this is actually a simplified way of looking at it ... ping is really the time there and back). So, everything is really fast ... the biggest slow downs are getting onto my ISP's backbone and then getting from the middle of the US to the California. Those 2 things account for 40 ms of my 52 ms ping time to google.com ... my network accounts for 1 ms.
I agree with the above post your equipment is not likely causing any real delay so replacing it will not reduce since it is almost nothing already.
In addition when you have a high speed connection like yours you have to be very careful. Even high end routers have fairly small cpu chips. This will limit the speed they can pass data. To get high speed they have moved the NAT function off the main cpu to a hardware accelerator. If you attempt to use many of the fancy feature in the router it will disable this feature and all the traffic will be limited by the CPU. This means most the so called "gaming" features can not be used on a high speed connection.
The so called gaming routers are used on smaller connections where the connection is being overloaded. They to a point can favor gaming traffic. I can't think of a way you can over utilize a 500mbps connection without having some form of abusive traffic...like bit torrent running.
In addition when you have a high speed connection like yours you have to be very careful. Even high end routers have fairly small cpu chips. This will limit the speed they can pass data. To get high speed they have moved the NAT function off the main cpu to a hardware accelerator. If you attempt to use many of the fancy feature in the router it will disable this feature and all the traffic will be limited by the CPU. This means most the so called "gaming" features can not be used on a high speed connection.
The so called gaming routers are used on smaller connections where the connection is being overloaded. They to a point can favor gaming traffic. I can't think of a way you can over utilize a 500mbps connection without having some form of abusive traffic...like bit torrent running.
My Xbox is not the only thing on my network. I had eliminated everything and taken my router out of the equation. I could have a 74 latency on my Xbox hooked to router. Take my router out and hook up to modem with no router and have a 50 latency. My network consists of 2 xboxes, iPad, 3 phones, 1 smart tv, 2 laptops, 4 multi media devices. I was looking for a router for my Xbox and then use the router I have now just for the wireless Incase I could not find a router that would not do my whole network. I did not want to go through wireless coverage and this wireless is better than this wireless when my main concern is wired connection. I ran ping plotter and to google and every so often I’d have a spike in ping.
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