Fluctuating Latency

Hey. I don’t know whether this should go in Technical Support, because it doesn’t actually disconnect me. But hey ho.

My problem is that my ping fluctuates. It’s not always high ping, generally I would be fine with that, the problem is that my ping fluctuates.

As my ping increases my characters sort of freeze, I have uploaded a GIF of this:

gfycat/FluffyGraciousHawaiianmonkseal

Also I don’t know if I can post this link in, but I do think it is important, if staff sees this and can edit it then go ahead and take the link down.
Add a .com after gfycat

I have been through the network troubleshooting guide, and have:

  • Flushed DNS
  • Restarted Router

A couple things to note:

  • I use Ethernet
  • When I do Ctrl+Shift+N there are orange blocks whenever my ping spikes

This fluctuating ping is not omnipresent. But hinders my performance quite serverely

If there is a way to add a sort of gate/threshold to my ping so it stays consistantly above say 100 that would be better because it’s not the high ping that’s the problem it’s the pausing of characters when my ping increases.

Kind Regards.

That’s the symbol for packet loss. :frowning: If you’ve already gone through the connection troubleshooting, would you mind downloading and running WinMTR according to these instructions? One of these statistics whilst playing Overwatch allows us to see where exactly the packet loss is occurring, and whether or not you might be able to fix it by yourself. Just post the text in here! :slight_smile:


Pachimari

Thanks, Pachimari.
I will get back to you in a couple days with the results(just waiting for another laggy period)