me and few friends have had a dedicated server running on a separate machine so people can join and leave as they please, however after a few IRL days it is now throwing out all kinds of weird networking issues and the ping is varying WILDLY from 50 odd ping to over 200 and everywhere in between. its made the game unbearable to play on it and everyone is rubber banding non stop and I've tried the usual restarting the sever program, running it as admin, double checking the firewall settings, restarting the machine itself and verifying the files and still no dice.
it seems to be a network socket issue from what the log throws out but aside from that i'm at the end of what i can do to try and resolve any possible issue that might just be poor setup by me.