Just what the utter hell am I supposed to do to make this bullcrap connection issues with these crappy servers better and playable? The game can run well for an hour or so, returning to town is great then back out no issues but just randomly, nowhere near a town, the game spikes to 1k+ or 2k+ msec for no reason rendering the game unplayable and triggering disconnects with no recourse, even upon reloading in to be greeted with 1k ping.
I’ve already forwarded any ports I could find, unless these ports were incorrect.
The ports that came up when I googled for D4s ports, not like the info is just easily found. Yeesh Digiangel, plan on giving a reason to do that? Or just shilling because its fun.
Are you on AT&T fiber or in the DFW Texas area? There is a thread in Tech Support where several people on that type of setup are having similar issues.
Some think they resolved it (temporarily anyway) with using a VPN.
Have a read through this whole thread. It starts a few days ago and has a lot of back and forth troubleshooting and talk between players in similar circumstances.
If you’re still having the problem after the port forwarding, then they’re not your problem. I strongly suggest jumping back in to your router and removing the port forwards for the sake of system security. Other guy isn’t shilling, WireShark is used to troubleshoot network issues like this if – again – you know what you’re doing. Beyond that follow up on Cheetah’s link, this sounds like an ISP problem.
I generally suggest people use WinMTR instead. That is a simple packet capture over time and traces the whole path from a person’s computer to the target server. Pretty simple to see the packet loss column and max latency for each hop.
Much easier for novices to navigate and Blizzard has an article on how to use it that is in the thread I linked. Any actual packet loss in the first column can cause latency, rubberbanding, and DCs in live service games. Not counting the hops that don’t respond for security reasons. heh. Those are fine.
Not saying you’re incorrect but for all of my friends who know how to build a PC but don’t know much about networking wouldn’t know how to use that program. For those who did IT to a certain degree? Absolutely.
