PS5 NON-Stop LAG Spikes.. 80ms to 1500ms to 800 ms to 80 to 2500 etc

[fbeye]

Hey

So I by no means say it is OPNSense, I simply am curious if there is possibly anything I need to do for PS5 [Console in general] in terms of opening ports? I assume all access is initiated inside out therefore I would not need any access, but, anything NAT wise or specific to PS5 or Game console?

PC games, like world of warcraft, never lag spikes. Seems it is only PS5 [Call of duty] or Xbox 360 [sea of thieves]

PS5 says NAT Type 3 if that helps..

[fbeye]

Yeah so like, when one does not know all we can do is google, I mean every time I ask anyone anything on a game "google is your best friend" so, this is what I found and modified the ports [from ps4 to ps5] and of course my IP etc... I still get NAT TYPE 3

https://www.reddit.com/r/OPNsenseFirewall/comments/ux5h43/the_definitive_guide_to_enabling_sony_playstation/

[Monviech (Cedrik)]

Maybe you have CGNAT?

[Seimus]

Usually NAT type 3 can cause performance issues for Consoles for some specific games, this can be fixed by creating an Outbound NAT rule and have static-port enabled.

Show your NAT rules (picture) and tell us if your WAN is behind CGNAT.



Regards,
S.

[fbeye]

Not sure exactly about GNAT?

But here are some pictures;

And I do not see the pictures option

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yeah, not a photoshop guy..i thought i DID trim them down

[fbeye]

Any idears?

[Monviech (Cedrik)]

If you have CGNAT you cannot get a better NAT level than 3 (from what I know)

Maybe your PS5 is connected to Wifi and the connection is bad? Wifi can introduce quite some lag.

[fbeye]

My goal is to NOT have NAT 3 on my PS5. Certain games are fine, some are not... Call of Duty lags non stop with spikes, but Rivals is constant 80ms. I am assuming something in these specific games is requiring other services... I feel the NAT 3 is what is doing it.

[fbeye]

Also no, it is indeed LAN I ran through the house, Cat8. Like I said, and my gf plays a LOT, only 2 games do this and I believe it is because they are more involved with port communication. Anyway, my goal is to make it not NAT type 3 but can not seeem to accomplish this.

[meyergru]

Once again: If your ISP offers only CGNAT or if you placed your OpnSense behind an ISP router (thus causing double-NAT), you will get nothing better than that. You can check by looking at the WAN interface IP of your OpnSense. If the IP is 100.64.x.1 to 100.127.x.254, you have CG-NAT and if it is from any RFC1918 range, you have double NAT.

[fbeye]

I will have to go home and look. My OPNSense is my first and only Router/Firewall. I have a DSL Modem in BRIDGE Mode and OPNSense is doing PPPoE. Also, I have static IP's. 1 IP is the default opnsense router  WAN ip as well as my home lan/wifi.  207.x.x.182 is my opnsen wan and 192.168.5.0 is my LAN.