Question Using 3rd party firmware question

[GangsterFresh]

This question is for those who are experienced with 3rd party firmware and flashing their routers.

Apologies in advance because I am a newbie but I was curious about using 3rd party firmware for a netgear nighthawk R7800 for online gaming ONLY.

If I was only gaming, is their any benefit to flash my firmware for improvement to overall latency/ping spikes in games comparing manufacture firmware vs 3rd party firmware for R7800?

I am not really sure what a 3rd party firmware does other than I can use SQM which is supposidly better than QOS.

I know their is shaping from 3rd party firmware as well where you can set download and upload limits but I can do that with R7800 just as easy.

I am mainly focusing on OpenWRT but open to the other firmwares as well.

With that in mind, any benefits to flashing R7800 firmware for pure gaming only or is the stock firmware from netgear good enough?

I feel like that had R7800 not supported QOS or shaping to make bufferbloat better then I woulda for sure flashed firmware but I feel like their is no need since those features are found on R7800.

 

[razel]

Gaming? Connect it wired.

QOS can help prioritize your gaming packets when others in your LAN are also heavily using the Internet. There are plenty of techniques and none of those will go past your Internet modem. After your modem you are at the mercy of Internet traffic.

3rd party firmwares are great if you want to do something the original manufacturer didn't intend for or just experiment with networks and stumble configuring things. It's pretty awesome when you can get it to do something you've always wanted. However in my experience I found it best to play around with them, but not use it in my primary router. I end up rushing things since Internet is down instead of taking my time making configuration mistakes and recovering from them.