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JuicyGoomba
On our wavelength
3 years ago

1gig, hub 5, unusable for online gaming, packet loss and latency issues

Hello, I've been with Virgin for almost 4 years now, as they are unfortunately the only provider nearby that does high speed broadband. I say unfortunately, because I have nothing but issues both w...
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JuicyGoomba
On our wavelength
3 years ago
Ooooh thank you for the reminder! I'd been using PLT before setting up BQM.

I consistently get packet loss when uploading, so all an upstream issue. I've confirmed this on the network graphs in games such as BF2042, all of the packet loss is on outgoing. It generally always happens during in-game interactions with other players. If I try to heal someone, it generally fails half the time as the action is lost due to packet loss. Same goes for gunshots etc.

When it's "stable", it's more of a case of late packets. When it's bad, usually during times where the red spikes are on BQM but not strictly limited to, I average 10-20 lost upload packets in a 1 minute Warzone test on packetlosstest.com

If I load up 2042 right now I can guarantee it'll be about the same average of 20 packets a minute lost.
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Jigsy75
Joining in
3 years ago
Blimey I'm glad I found this post because playing 2042 at the minute is just impossible. I literally play for 5 minutes then see people running in the air before being booted to the main loading screen.
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    JuicyGoomba
    On our wavelength
    3 years ago

    The first settings page on 2042 should have a "Network" tab, you can go in there and enable the graphcs at the bottom, select "Always".

    For me right now it's showing between 3-5% packet loss on uploaded packets (PL OUT) on 2042, it's completely unplayable.

    Worst part is, BQM doesn't show any of these moments.