Help avoiding lag

[MrChips]

I pretty much only play Battlefield 1 online, and recently have been having quite a lot of issues with lag, or what appears to be lag!

I'm on Fibre, and get around 70Mb download, 15-17Mb upload, and ping is around 20ms. Only thing that i know isn't great is I run the xbox over wifi, could this be such a significant contributor?

Here's a few examples i thought i'd record to demonstrate:

Ignore the first few seconds, that's just my crap playing style.
https://youtu.be/HeZru--tnQU

Surely enough bullets?
https://youtu.be/idjz5xeOaAk

Teleporting enemy
https://youtu.be/-0eiLsvVix8

Sometimes it is all ok though!
https://youtu.be/gdd87iAC9Gc

So...there isn't an easy way to run it as a hardwired connection, assuming that those powerline systems wouldn't be any better than wifi. So, is there anything else I can do or is it hard luck?

[Jobbo]

Powerline is definitely better than WiFi, but why not get a long patch cable and plug it in directly to the router when playing?

[Jinx]

If you are stuck with wifi then a decent router (not ISP provider router) will make a huge difference (I have One of these connected to my virgin superhub in modem mode - wifi is almost as good as the wired connection) .

[AmosMoses]

Get it hard wired in!

[Snubs]

Have you checked your NAT type? I have a PS4 rather than an XBox but a quick search suggests it's much the same. I saw something suggesting that an XBox has a strict NAT out of the box. If that's what you're running , it's possibly the source of your problems. Some Googling would find you instructions on how to switch to moderate or open.

[hyphen]

Are you on Virgin and have Superb 3? as it has known problems for gaming.

[MrChips]

NAT is open, I’m on Plusnet Fibre so not virgin cable. and I’m using this D6400 (AC1600) vdsl router:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B00UCTXRRC/ref...

It’ll be a pain as it means dropping cables down the staircase but I may be able to hardwire just to test it for a few games.

I already have power line adapters running to my tv box as it doesn’t have WiFi so I believe it’s not great practice to have more than one running at one time?

The issues in the vid are definitely lag aren’t they, people teleporting etc?!

[hyphen]

Op - try this and see what it shows

https://www.thinkbroadband.com/broadband/monitorin...

[MrChips]

hyphen said:

Op - try this and see what it shows

https://www.thinkbroadband.com/broadband/monitorin...

Cheers I've set up the monitoring so will see how that looks for a few days. Ran their speed test and see:





When highlighting the Red bits of the latency chart, it shows:


Will report back more once the monitoring has been working for a day or so. Off to have a game now still using wifi so will see what that looks like

[MrChips]

Played a couple of games last night, 9.15-10:30... as you can see. Is this bad?

[JustinF]

Just for clarity, are there other users on your connection? Is there a Sky box or similar streaming or downloading series link programmes etc?

[MrChips]

Not during that time period no. Just me and the wife at home, no tv on at the time and she was asleep.

[westtra]

Going by the time, Your ISP and what your up to I think it may be a plusnet issue.

My reason for this is recently our plusnet connection has been funny around 10pm give or take a bit.

I notice things like issues streaming, downloading to sky q box. Low bandwidth warnings on Forza 7. I had put it down to an update to my router recently but never got a chance to test before coming away to work.