Hi ASchneiderBR, I don’t think it is a thermal issue. I just had another session with it, and I put one of those handheld portable fan with built-in battery under the router, set it to max fan speed and blow right into the router from below. If the temperature reading at the system overview page is accurate, it is around 49~52 degree Celsius when playing, and stuttering still occurs. It should be something else.
I also tried without the fan, and continue playing for a while, with stuttering at the same time of course. After a while, I noticed the temperature increased to 60+. After a while more, the WiFi disconnected and within like 10s maybe, it was able to reconnect back successfully. Not sure if it is temperature related or because I have increased the bandwidth to 160Mhz and it is using DFS channel with the radar signal detection stuff going on…
I tried hardware flow offloading, still stuttering, same as what you mentioned. I also tried enable the packet steering option, can’t really tell if it made it worse or have no difference at all. I also tried disconnect the Internet access (unplug the WAN cable and disable multi-wan), makes no difference.
One thing I noticed is, when playing Beat Saber, if I try not to move my head at all, just keep it still and just wave my hands to slash those boxes, the stuttering is noticeably lesser. When I start to move around like how I usually play it, the stuttering becomes worse.
I suspect when I didn’t move as much, the game view remained mostly the same and thus the bandwidth usage was lower and when I moved around like crazy, the game view kept changing and the bandwidth usage also increased. Not sure if this theory is correct or wrong…
So just speculating, maybe this router couldn’t handle that high traffic load with small enough latency for smooth PCVR experience? Not sure how to test further on this and if there is any other config options that I can enable/disable to further optimize the performance in this scenario.
I have also exported the logs but haven’t checked it to see if there is anything related…