Firewalla for gaming

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Badri Narayanan Muthukrishnan

• December 24, 2024 10:43

Hi

 

I am planning to buy Firewalla to replace my Untangle router.  Untangle did for gaming and home use.  Is Firewalla good for gaming?  I dont see much information related to gaming and its support.  I appreciate your help.

 

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Badri M

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  Firewalla

  • December 24, 2024 17:45

  I never really understand gaming routers, if you are looking for smart queue, yes, we do have one. https://help.firewalla.com/hc/en-us/articles/360056976594-Firewalla-Feature-Smart-Queue

  If you are looking for other things, please let me know. 

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  Badri Narayanan Muthukrishnan

  • December 24, 2024 18:14

  Its not talking about gaming router.  In Untangle firewall we can do bypass rule for certain address.  So that deep packet inspection will not done.  And I think it will bypass certain layers and reduce latency.  This is other than smart queues.  Is there any feature in Firewalla as well?

   

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  Firewalla

  • December 24, 2024 22:27

  You can turn monitoring off a device, that will bypass the inspection. Modern CPU's are really fast, I don't think there will be any significant difference in a ms or around that. 

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  Badri Narayanan Muthukrishnan

  • April 08, 2025 13:05

  Sorry for the delayed reply.  I placed an order for Firewalla device.  Before getting my hands on it just wanted to know how to setup bypass.  Any documentation that I can refer to?

   

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  Firewalla

  • April 08, 2025 14:35

  What do you mean "how to setup bypass"? You can turn monitoring off, but as I as said previously, modern CPU's are really powerful, you may not need to do that.

  What is important is monitor your network congestion, if needed use the smart queue https://help.firewalla.com/hc/en-us/articles/360056976594-Firewalla-Feature-Smart-Queue

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  Wesley Fishleigh

  • June 13, 2025 21:23
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  Hello Firewalla Team, 

  To build on this topic, I am looking at the Firewalla product and have a question regarding gaming. 

  - With your UPNP implementation, is it just miniUPNP in the background? I am currently running OPNSense and am having an issue with COD Warzone connecting from 2 devices behind the same router (Yes I have pure NAT and UPNP enabled and allowed for my device, with a static outbound port and hybrid NAT rules). Have you done any testing with this? 

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  Firewalla

  • June 14, 2025 03:22

  You want to map two different devices to the same port? Or are they two different devices using two different ports?

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  Wesley Fishleigh

  • June 14, 2025 03:50

  Currently it is 2 devices that are using (should be using) UPNP to claim a port but on OPNSense it isn’t the most consistent experience. So was just curious if there had been any testing done with Firewalla.

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  Firewalla

  • June 14, 2025 23:33

  Are they claiming the same port? UPnP is not a complex protocol, so need to know what is it opensense not doing right

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