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sam_soong
Up to speed
2 months ago

Severity of the Call of Duty Packet Bursts Have Made the Game Unplayable.

This started happening about 2 months ago. Now it's pretty much near constant whenever I start a multilayer game. I contacted Activision who wanted a copy of my computer logs and they're adamant that it's a problem with my ISP. I've run various online tests and they all say my connection is fine, however. 

  • Adduxi's avatar
    Adduxi
    Very Insightful Person

    Wired or wireless connection?  PC or Console?

    Post the power levels, Pre and PostRS errors and network log from the Hub.  Setup a BQM to monitor your circuit www.thinkbroadband.com/ping  Also run a wired speed test on www.samknows.com/realspeed and post the results. Once done we can comment.

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      sam_soong
      Up to speed

      Sorry my bad.

      PC, Modern Warfare 2, Via Steam, both WIFI and wired (bought a cable to see if it would help), I'll post the details shortly.

  • I've been playing for the last hour and have no idea what those graphs mean.

    • Adduxi's avatar
      Adduxi
      Very Insightful Person

      SamKnows is looking good with decent latency and speed to both the Hub and PC.  We need to wait 24 hrs for the BQM to populate. As for WiFi, I would suggest you stick to a wired connection direct to the Hub for gaming. 

    • legacy1's avatar
      legacy1
      Alessandro Volta

      Any thing downloading or uploading can spike your connect under VM rate limiting as a note

  • So do another screenshot of the bottom graph in 24hrs and post it here?

    • Adduxi's avatar
      Adduxi
      Very Insightful Person

      Yes you can, that would be useful.  It’s a record of the state of your incoming broadband supply. 

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        sam_soong
        Up to speed

        Well I was on MW2 last night and this morning and it largely appears to have fixed itself for some reason. There's still some heavy packet bursts at the start of the match for about 30 secs though. I still don't know what all this information tell you though.