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Se1kies
5 years ago
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High ping and packet loss, only in game, only on Apex Legends

I have been having trouble with Apex since I signed up for a new fibre plan with Shaw, I live in Whistler, BC. I get 150ms up and down with a 16ms ping when I do a speed test. I assume my issue is t...
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    Se1kies
    5 years ago

    The solution for my problem was manually splitting the signals on my router (it's usually automatic). When I switched to 2.4G the problems all went away! But on 5G I get massive ping and up to 99% packet loss.

    If you have a modern router with a lot of automatic functions, consider splitting the signals and using 2.4G. The best solution would be to wire straight into the modem, but that's not always an option.

Se1kies's avatar
Se1kies
5 years ago

The solution for my problem was manually splitting the signals on my router (it's usually automatic). When I switched to 2.4G the problems all went away! But on 5G I get massive ping and up to 99% packet loss.

If you have a modern router with a lot of automatic functions, consider splitting the signals and using 2.4G. The best solution would be to wire straight into the modem, but that's not always an option.

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    iCroN00b
    5 years ago

    Can you explain me how to do it? i am using a wire but still got random latency on matches even if it say 50-70 ping,also there is no ping spikes on my tests to frankfurt servers... 

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