Any idea what may be causing my periodic 3-7 second lag spikes?

[slate veldt]

Discord voice lags out during that same period too. I just checked my ports and the ones i found listed for this are open. Dont have other problems or connection drop outs with other games at all

[topaz kiln]

Been having the same problem for the last year or so

what I've figured out is that my connection doesn't actually cut but for some reason upload or download speed drops to 0 and sometimes it doesn't even do that and it still happens

tried pinging googles and discords websites and my router during the spikes and the pings went through just fine

I don't really have the expertise to actually figure out what's going on but those are some things I've done

[topaz kiln]

also supporting this is that in gtfo players always freeze and I freeze in place for them but discord audio usually turns one-way eg. other people can hear me but I can't hear them or I can hear the other people in the call but they can't hear me

[slate veldt]

Dang you did more than i did. Thats a bummer. Usually it smooths out over the course of a run but still its a gamble at times if its going to cause me to wake everything up or freeze mid alarm

We have the same exact symptoms

Whats your upload speed?

[topaz kiln]

20Mbps according to speedtest

[slate veldt]

God damn thats a lot better than my like, 5Mbps

[topaz kiln]

only difference is that connection dropping happens everywhere not just gtfo

[unkempt summit]

I used to have that issue too but it was ONLY with discord, I chalked it up to the ISP routing things like shit and losing some packets along the path only with specific destinations. It's 100% not that but I suppose you tried already restarting the router.

[slate veldt]

Many times. Also did port testing this round and things were not open. (few days before posting this main post)
I opened them now and played one game with similar issues still