Xbox one wifi on Asus RT-AC87R

[alarsen77]

So I have an RT-AC87R that I use. It is located one room over from our living room on the other side of the wall closest to where the xbox one is. I don't have an easy way to run an ethernet cable to the xbox, so wireless is my only option right now. I have a 155/15 connection from RCN, I run a speed test wired and actually get 195/20 most the time. Over wifi on my macbook pro I can get 180-185/17-18. My iPhone 6s Plus and iPad air 2 can both get about 170-175/17-18. So I know my wireless is capable of delivering fast speed. However when I run a diagnostic test on the xbox one I am only getting about 35-40 down. I once got about 107 so I know the xbox is capable of getting faster speeds too. I am using the 5GHz channel on the router, I do have the optimize for xbox one checked in the wireless settings for the 5GHz channel. Is there something else that I am missing to get the best wireless performance out of the xbox one? The xbox is about 6-8 ft. in a straight line from the router with one plaster wall in between them.

 

[Puppa]

Is your RT-AC87R's CPU overloaded? Turn off features (such as Traffic Analysis) to see if your speed improves. Turning off stateful packet inspection is a quick test to see if the router is hitting a CPU bottleneck.

 

[alarsen77]

Is your RT-AC87R's CPU overloaded? Turn off features (such as Traffic Analysis) to see if your speed improves. Turning off stateful packet inspection is a quick test to see if the router is hitting a CPU bottleneck.

I am pretty sure traffic analysis is off and everytime I go into the router settings the cpu is using next to nothing. I don't have a very complicated network. I have QOS all off. Not sure what stateful packet inspection is and if it is on or not. I will have to check that later when I get home.

 

[Puppa]

QoS turned off? I can't get my network to behave with QoS turned off! If one device is uploading, for example, other device cannot stream well. Perhaps you should turn QoS on, then. Since Xbox is your trouble spot, try the Game mode setting. Be sure to set uplink and downlink speeds to about 90% of what you measure on speedtest to avoid buffer bloat.

 

[alarsen77]

QoS turned off? I can't get my network to behave with QoS turned off! If one device is uploading, for example, other device cannot stream well. Perhaps you should turn QoS on, then. Since Xbox is your trouble spot, try the Game mode setting. Be sure to set uplink and downlink speeds to about 90% of what you measure on speedtest to avoid buffer bloat.

I am hesitant to turn QoS on cause almost everywhere I look it says to turn it off for the best performance. But I guess I can give it a try.

 

[RMerlin]

I am hesitant to turn QoS on cause almost everywhere I look it says to turn it off for the best performance. But I guess I can give it a try.

QoS is highly situational. For people with a slower Internet connection, QoS can bring some very notable improvements. For anyone with a 200-300 Mbps connection and/or only a few light web users, QoS might not be worth it.

 

[Deleted member 22229]

I am hesitant to turn QoS on cause almost everywhere I look it says to turn it off for the best performance. But I guess I can give it a try.

Yes with your connection speed there is no need at all to use QOS. That is for slow connections to direct traffic or to help with buffer bloat if thats a issue for some.

 

[alarsen77]

Yes with your connection speed there is no need at all to use QOS. That is for slow connections to direct traffic or to help with buffer bloat if thats a issue for some.

I have no issues with buffer bloat or speeds anywhere else. It's just the xbox one. I can't seem to get decent wireless speeds out of it.

 

[alarsen77]

I was just doing some reading on the Xbox One and it seems it prefers an IPv6 connection. I had a chat with RCN and they support IPv6. My SB6183 also supports it and RCN told me all I would have to do is enable it on my network and their servers are configured to give out an IPv6 address if asked for one. So I am wondering if I should enable IPv6?

 

[Deleted member 22229]

Why not i have had IPv6 enabled for years with comcast. It's certainly worth a try.

 

[alarsen77]

Why not i have had IPv6 enabled for years with comcast. It's certainly worth a try.

Do you know if there is anything I should have to do with my modem? Or once I enable it in the router it should pull IPv6? According to RCN their servers are setup to give out an IPv6 address if its requested by the modem.

 

[Deleted member 22229]

What kind of IPv6 does your provider offer is it Native ? Is this a cable connection you have ?

With comcast you just enable Native IPv6 hit apply then close out of the UI. Shut off the router and modem. Reboot the modem first let it sync then turn on your router and let it boot. Thats it IPv6 should work.

 

[alarsen77]

What kind of IPv6 does your provider offer is it Native ? Is this a cable connection you have ?

You know what I didn't ask what type, wasn't actually aware of different types. But yes this is a cable connection.

 

[Deleted member 22229]

You know what I didn't ask what type, wasn't actually aware of different types. But yes this is a cable connection.

Most likely Native duel stack like comcast. Try it with the instructions above.

You can test it here > http://test-ipv6.com/

 

[alarsen77]

Most likely Native duel stack like comcast. Try it with the instructions above.

You can test it here > http://test-ipv6.com/

Ok I will try it, is that in setting for native IPv6 in the modem or router?

 

[Deleted member 22229]

Ok I will try it, is that in setting for native IPv6 in the modem or router?

In the router. There is nothing to configure in the modem as long as it supports IPv6. Log in to the router click IPv6 tab on the left. Use the drop down menu and select Native, hit apply. Then reboot both devices modem first then router.

 

[alarsen77]

In the router. There is nothing to configure in the modem as long as it supports IPv6. Log in to the router click IPv6 tab on the left. Use the drop down menu and select Native, hit apply. Then reboot both devices modem first then router.

alright perfect, I would do it tonight but I will interrupt the girlfriends netflix while she is trying to fall asleep lol

 

[alarsen77]

Most likely Native duel stack like comcast. Try it with the instructions above.

You can test it here > http://test-ipv6.com/

So I tried to get it setup and tested at that site and no IPv6. I did native and that was it, I saw there was stateless or stateful too but I just left it at stateless cause that's what it was by default.

 

[alarsen77]

So upon another chat with RCN they don't support IPv6 at this time and don't have any plans to do so.

So I guess I am back to the drawing board as to why my wireless performance sucks on my xbox one.

 

[Puppa]

QoS is highly situational. For people with a slower Internet connection, QoS can bring some very notable improvements. For anyone with a 200-300 Mbps connection and/or only a few light web users, QoS might not be worth it.

My QoS-related issues have all been related to my uplink throughput. I have a 100Mb downlink/12Mb uplink and, for example, Google Drive Sync running on a single pc on my network in the background (without tuning the uplink bandwidth limits in the Windows app) consumes enough bandwidth that my son's Xbox Live connection on his Xbox One goes all laggy. Even limiting bandwidth in the app doesn't cut it alone--it hogs uplink in bursts. Turning on QoS solved this for me, so I am speaking from experience, and I truly think this could be relevant in this case. The overall network load required by many Xbox Live games is pretty low--160 to 300kbps on a test last week--yet it is extremely sensitive to uplink speed, even for downlink speed tests, which you probably wouldn't even be doing unless you had seen the lag I'm talking about.