Help with setting up my network for competitive FPS gaming

Installing and Using OpenWrt Network and Wireless Configuration
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I've got Fibre internet and want to set up my router so that I get the lowest, and most stable latency possible to improve hit reg.

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Any help is massively appreciated.
Thanks!

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https://openwrt.org/docs/guide-user/network/traffic-shaping/sqm

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Thanks.
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Any reason why, when I load htop it shows me one of the cores maxing out?
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Surely this isn't normal?

From activating SQM. I still see some latency bounce to 34 ms, is this normal or should this be lower? Could that be because of the core maxing out?

Thanks

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with SQM it is.

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I noticed I had software offloading enabled.
I disabled that.
I disabled SQM to retest.
I get this:
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it's your device, we have no idea what you're running ...

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I posted the stats in my first post

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you posted your waveform results, it doesn't have anything to do with whatever your router's doing.

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There's a screenshot of my router details?

FriendlyElec NanoPi R4S
OpenWrt 22.03.4 r20123-38ccc47687 / LuCI openwrt-22.03 branch git-23.093.57104-ce20b4a

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you're not answering the question, we're not interested in your hw, but what your router's doing, under the hood.

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Where do I get that, what information would you like to see?

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Instead of reiterating things you already posted - in order to assist you, it may be helpful if you explained things, what you desire, (again) what you're running - as in software, games - etc.

Be as detailed as possible.

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the lower part of the htop screenshot...

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when there's any system load ...

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I basically want to get the lowest and most stable possible latency to gaming servers.
I play PUBG. I understand that the game itself it's amazingly optimised but I do notice that I seem to get issues with hit reg.
I'm based in the UK. I connect to EU servers, where I usually get around 20-25ms ping but I often notice that this appears to be higher at times, like 35ms during the game - even with SQM enabled, I had asked chatGPT to give me some settings but they were different to the settings recommended in the Wiki.

I'm a novice with all this but I just want to make sure that when I'm gaming I get the best possible connection to the game servers at all times.

Connected to the nano pi I've a switch where I have my Gaming PC and a Google WiFi router as a Wireless AP.

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I already see:

  • Adguard
  • collectd
  • a PPP dameon (?)
  • LuCI-bwc (?)

Have you tested by not running the unneeded extra packages?

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I've no idea what collectd, PPP dameon or Luci bwc are?

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Your response is interesting, given some of these listed packages are not included in the default image on an official OpenWrt firmware. I would suggest installing/testing firmware from the official site: downloads.openwrt.org

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