Hello guys i'm here once more with a new problem ahah.
I have a dedicated server hosted by a provider, we play in 6/8 people, sometimes i have really high ping spikes for no reason as my connection outside of the game during this moments is just fine, the same happens to my girlfriend, we live in the same house but she plays on another computer, so the problem seams to be related to our connection, what can be done?
#Me and my girlfriend have random lag spikes in our dedicated server
hybrid island
golden jasper
If the ping spikes happen specifically only to you two and no one else on the server, and the fact that you share a connection would definitely point to it being a network issue
Do you perhaps have any VPN that you may test out to see if it would be an issue with your provider?
Since I could only recommend contacting them about the issue, having the VPN test would just show that the issue is either on their side or with the router you have
hybrid island
you mean the internet provider or the server provider?
hybrid island
i'm kinda fucked then, in italy internet providers support is basically useless, also i'm not the owner of my internet connection, it is owned by our landlord that uses a third party agency that installs and handles internet for companies, big mess 🤣
golden jasper
Well, try looking into a VPN service in that case
Several players fixed their internet provider issues by using one
hybrid island
Cool i will try that, thanks again
hybrid island
Hey haven't tried yet with a vpn but was lagging and made a screen of the admin panel, do you see anything useful here?
golden jasper
Well I have never seen a -100 server load before, but I assume that is either the host provider not providing the usage to the applications, or a side effect of the lag
Otherwise everything else looks good
hybrid island
Yea i need to contact support to fix that cpu is showing 0 usage even on their control panel, okay thanks will try with vpn hope that works 😦
worthy dust
A VPN wouldn’t work. That’s not how connections work. A VPN adds a hop, which in turn adds latency. For a VPN to work the network provider would have to be deliberately throttling certain packets. None of them do that. It’s done on a global level for speed, but that’s it.
golden jasper
A VPN wouldn’t work. That’s not how connections work. A VPN adds a hop, which in...
You can ask the several players that have fixed their connection issues with a VPN
I cannot explain it either, only that if the ISP dislikes specific usage, they throttle the network as you said
A VPN would bypass that
worthy dust
If they do that they are breaking consumer law.
Bar that there’s no logical reason for it.
golden jasper
Example is that the game gets flagged as a torrent P2P packet
Have heard at least 2 cases of that
Blocking that is not against the law as far as I am aware
And I do not know how many people would go to court over it
worthy dust
Any kind of throttling that is not in the TOS would be in violation of the law. A torrent does not mean it’s illegal, it’s just another file transfer protocol. HTTP, SFTP/FTP, Torrent, they all fall under the same category.
Interestingly enough BitTorrent used tcp up until very recently.
Granted it would be costly to go to court.
If you have contact with the devs ask them to implement an option in the config to swap between udp and tcp.
Servers really should be using TCP anyway. It removes the need for anti cheat rules that checks for modified packets and lag warriors
TCP has a lot less issues traversing firewalls as well. It’s why VPNs that are designed to circumvent surveillance are exclusively TCP for both the control and data channels.