frustratedpdx
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I truly appreciate anyone's time, I know this post is long but I want to try and answer any questions upfront. I know there is a solution here, just struggling to find it. Thank you in advance.
I am going to try and breakdown this down as painlessly, and with enough detail to help anyone who wishes to offer suggestions. With that in mind, I am not a networking person. In fact, in the 10 plus hours over the last two weeks I’ve spent on this, is my sole knowledge base.
The ISP
I live in Portland, Oregon and have Century Link gigabit fiber. Initially I had fiber, but was only at 100 up/100 down. I decided to upgrade, and a tech came out as I also needed a new jack installed. Once the install was complete, I observed via his windows 10 laptop on safe mode pull 920 down and 898 up. During my trouble shooting process I feel confident in ruling out the isp. The other devices in my home pull anywhere from 560 to 700 up and 500 down wirelessly.
The PS4 problem
I am experiencing wild swings in upload speeds. I will attempt to post pictures of these tests in order. I use the PS4 for all streaming, as well as gaming. The gaming portion is making me possibly cling to the upload speed more than I need to. However I feel an upload speed that is consistently 10% or above of download speed is reasonable. I have spoken to Playstation and been told to open ports.
I assigned a static IP through the router, and opened up all of the requested ports. Sometimes I can 20mbp down, but another test shortly after will drop to 4mbp or even 700kbp. I tried multiple snake oil tricks online and nothing has worked.
The only time I found the consistency was by accident and strange, however it resulted in a NAT type failure on the PS4 test. For a handful of test in a row, it said my NAT type failed yet, I was getting 160down and up to 90up, and it was consistent. However I didn’t want to leave the error. So I’m thinking that it might be something within NAT settings that I have missed. So here is where I’m currently at, and what I have done with the router.
Unfortunately I had been on the phone with ASUS, who were completely un helpful. This NAT error occurred after a power reboot of the modem, and before I re entered the ports to be forwarded. I don’t know what caused the error which ironically allowed the consistency. But again, I feel the answer is somewhere in how the NAT and PS4/modem are communicating.
When I’m in the same room, with macbook pro I have no problems with consistency or upload. I understand they are different devices, but it just is getting frustrating at this point. Lastly, no other device, except when I test via the macbook are connected on the 5g network that the PS4 is.
Router
ASUS RT-AC88U running 382.1_2
Under LAN settings I have 201 set for my VID (prior to that I was only getting half the bandwidth)
Under WAN settings all of my basic config’s are set to YES, and I have touched them. The only thing I did was change the internal UPNP allowed range from 1 to 65535
Port Forwarding has the ports given to me by Playstation to open, 80, 443, 3478-3480 tcp and udp ports 3478-3479
NAT Passthrough
Everything is set to enabled, with only enable PPPoE Relay disabled.
Thank you again for anyone who replies, I know it is a long post. But I want to get to the bottom of this. I have read countless posts, and even looked through this forum regarding other issues that might be similar relating to speed but haven’t found a solution. Thank you!
I am going to try and breakdown this down as painlessly, and with enough detail to help anyone who wishes to offer suggestions. With that in mind, I am not a networking person. In fact, in the 10 plus hours over the last two weeks I’ve spent on this, is my sole knowledge base.
The ISP
I live in Portland, Oregon and have Century Link gigabit fiber. Initially I had fiber, but was only at 100 up/100 down. I decided to upgrade, and a tech came out as I also needed a new jack installed. Once the install was complete, I observed via his windows 10 laptop on safe mode pull 920 down and 898 up. During my trouble shooting process I feel confident in ruling out the isp. The other devices in my home pull anywhere from 560 to 700 up and 500 down wirelessly.
The PS4 problem
I am experiencing wild swings in upload speeds. I will attempt to post pictures of these tests in order. I use the PS4 for all streaming, as well as gaming. The gaming portion is making me possibly cling to the upload speed more than I need to. However I feel an upload speed that is consistently 10% or above of download speed is reasonable. I have spoken to Playstation and been told to open ports.
I assigned a static IP through the router, and opened up all of the requested ports. Sometimes I can 20mbp down, but another test shortly after will drop to 4mbp or even 700kbp. I tried multiple snake oil tricks online and nothing has worked.
The only time I found the consistency was by accident and strange, however it resulted in a NAT type failure on the PS4 test. For a handful of test in a row, it said my NAT type failed yet, I was getting 160down and up to 90up, and it was consistent. However I didn’t want to leave the error. So I’m thinking that it might be something within NAT settings that I have missed. So here is where I’m currently at, and what I have done with the router.
Unfortunately I had been on the phone with ASUS, who were completely un helpful. This NAT error occurred after a power reboot of the modem, and before I re entered the ports to be forwarded. I don’t know what caused the error which ironically allowed the consistency. But again, I feel the answer is somewhere in how the NAT and PS4/modem are communicating.
When I’m in the same room, with macbook pro I have no problems with consistency or upload. I understand they are different devices, but it just is getting frustrating at this point. Lastly, no other device, except when I test via the macbook are connected on the 5g network that the PS4 is.
Router
ASUS RT-AC88U running 382.1_2
Under LAN settings I have 201 set for my VID (prior to that I was only getting half the bandwidth)
Under WAN settings all of my basic config’s are set to YES, and I have touched them. The only thing I did was change the internal UPNP allowed range from 1 to 65535
Port Forwarding has the ports given to me by Playstation to open, 80, 443, 3478-3480 tcp and udp ports 3478-3479
NAT Passthrough
Everything is set to enabled, with only enable PPPoE Relay disabled.
Thank you again for anyone who replies, I know it is a long post. But I want to get to the bottom of this. I have read countless posts, and even looked through this forum regarding other issues that might be similar relating to speed but haven’t found a solution. Thank you!
