Fluctuating ping problem

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Fluctuating ping problem

Postby H1D » 12 Oct 2016, 14:07

95% of the time I'm getting net lags while playing SupCom.
Looks like that:
1) everything is OK, ping to other players around 50-150ms
2) suddenly getting 2000-3000ms pings to ALL player and/or Connection issue window with "Quite" messages
3) suddenly everything is OK again
sometimes it is happening once in 10 minutes, but more often it happens in a loops causing unplayable game =(

At the exact same time I have Discord working just fine, ping to google.com is about 30 ms, typical internet browsing is blazing fast. So its definitely happening only to SupCom traffic.

What I tried? Basically everything from that wiki page (I cant post links):
1) UPnP
2) Port forwarding (with and without UPnP checked)
3) Switched from wi-fi to wired LAN
4) Changed router
5) Woody

Also worth noticing that I'm playing on OS X using wine&Crossover :roll:

My thoughts:
1) OS X drops packets somehow. (tried to play in office where we have perfect 5Hz wi-fi with same result)
2) EoC adapter drops packets (using internet connection by "Ethernet over coax" technology)
3) my ISP doesn't like SupCom traffic

Is there a way to get detailed logs to understand problem in details?
Maybe I can emulate SupCom traffic and see what caused problems?

P.S. Using BusyBox linux on router it can be configured to log specific traffic I guess
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Re: Fluctuating ping problem

Postby Vanguard » 12 Oct 2016, 16:55

My first thought was "bad internet". Then you said, everything else works fine. Then you said "OS X wine & crossover" and I was like "whaaaaat?"

I think, what you COULD in theory do is to have wireshark running and trace your network traffic. But it´s gonne be a lot of work and I am not sure what information this will get you.

Maybe get a native WIndows installation on a notebook running and check, if that encounters the same problem? If not, it´s your machine/setup. If it does, it´s your network.
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Re: Fluctuating ping problem

Postby jackherer » 12 Oct 2016, 18:10

Just install bootcamp and play on windows. This will probably save you lot of research and tryhard
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Re: Fluctuating ping problem

Postby H1D » 13 Oct 2016, 09:27

OK, trying bootcamp
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