My father has always liked games and he sometimes plays Elite Dangerous in the evening on his computer, which is connected to the same router as mine. Our (ideal) download speed is 2MB/s and the upload is 0.2MB/s. I believe that the game is one of the causes of my mysterious lag waves, although my father denies that. The game itself has a feature which shows connection consumption and it shows relatively small values.
However, Discovery, War Thunder and World of Warships are all very laggy for me (I get 100% lag in the first, over 999 m/s ping in the latter) while Elite is running. I have checked if something else was running too multiple times, and it was not. Without Elite running, my connection is perfectly fine, except if someone of my family wants to download something or watch a video, which is easy to notice, as it is easy to ask them to stop for a short time while I am pewing.
Are you having similar problems with Elite Dangerous? Do you know more? Is there a way I can solve the problem? Please tell me.
I know. Our budget is very limited and will be, hopefully, until March. And it is questionable how civilized Serbia is.
Both Disco and Elite use considerably less though. I know that Elite uses between 0.05 - 0.2MB/s of download. I don't know how much Disco needs, but it mustn't be a lot, as it's only exchanging vectors. Same as Elite, but probably even less of them.
I have half a meg of connection speed (0.50 mbps) and Disco lags like hell 90% of the time for me. Elite Dangerous runs like an absolute dream most of the time. However i did encounter problems where it would disconnect randomly which i discovered was due to some missing ports, i corrected that and it's been fine since. But Disco for me just lags constantly before i had ED and after. Where as most other games work fine for me so. Sure i get the odd ping spike but usually the ping in say World of Tanks and World of Warships remains around the 120 mark which is fine for me.
Gonna go ahead and guess that your router is prioritizing Elite Dangerous network traffic over everything else?
I knew you would be involved, with your terrible internet connection.
Mine runs like a permanent lag free network, it is likely something that your priorities need to be changed on your router.
Well unfortunately. Not everyone has good internet and frankly companies who produce software need to take this into account. Especially in cases like mine, most people in Discovery who have commented on my lag in game and after a 20 minute argument they turn round and say "Get better internet then." People really need to wake up in that respect, since sometimes, like in my case, it isn't possible in any shape or form simply due to the terrain and location. I mean the line speed is 56k, that's as fast as it'll go regardless what provider you go with. There is actually an alternative - satellite Broadband but this is far too expensive to be viable. But the point is even on this snailnet it runs fine the majority of the time.
But this aside - i'd look at the Quality of Service settings on your router, but then again depending on how old it actually is it might be worth replacing it for a more efficient one supposing that's what the issue turns out to be. For me, when i replaced the router a year ago with a fairly expensive one i realized it made better use of the connection in terms of how efficiently it dealt with network traffic. Not to mention QoS is set so that it balances out internet intensive stuff like videos and games so one person browsing YouTube doesn't totally demolish the network - it's set quite aggressively and that's really the only way i can play games online at all.
(01-08-2016, 02:32 AM)Explorer487 Wrote: Well unfortunately. Not everyone has good internet and frankly companies who produce software need to take this into account.
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