Severe lag when trying to play with a friend

[icy tiger]

I am experiencing some connectivity issues when playing with a friend of mine, this does not apply to any specific game but rather we both get disconnected when trying to play with eachother. This is specifically a problem with the 3DS and not the Wii U which i haven’t tried yet.

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[narrow bloom]

Nintendo Network games used P2P game servers. P2P is known for having varying degrees of lag depending on the users' internet connections

[icy tiger]

Oh that makes sense
I actually come from Europe and he comes from the USA but i have a pretty good internet connection, pretty sure he does too.

So basically the 3ds servers were bad this whole time? Even when the servers were still up before Nintendo shut them down?

[narrow bloom]

Yup!

Wii U as well. I had many Smash Wii U matches that went literal frame by frame on Nintendo Network

[icy tiger]

Thats actually crazy! I am surprised too!
So thats why online was free all along! The servers were trash and cheap to run which changed after the switch came out where they started charging money for better servers that actually worked

[narrow bloom]

Switch also uses P2P for a lot of stuff

[icy tiger]

So in short, Nintendo network servers on both the Wii U and 3DS only work good when the players are close to eachother

[narrow bloom]

like Mario Maker 2 online. It's unplayable with the amount of lag there is

[icy tiger]

I think it depends on the game because i have never experienced any lag while playing switch games with people from abroad

[narrow bloom]

Many things affect the experience, proximity is just one factor

[narrow bloom]

yeah it depends on the game.

[icy tiger]

I guess

[icy tiger]

The major titles like super smash, mario kart 8 and splatoon work perfectly fine for me

So yea