Server Lag Packet Loss & Choke when match starts & during matches.

Question

I've checked my internet and everything is stable & fine.
This can be compared with many other big streamers and local gamers too.

Please dont mark this post as spam , for some reason my posts are not showing on my EA Answers Profile. I just want 1 post visible.

I've summed up everything into a video I've recorded on YouTube will leave the link to the video here.

https://youtu.be/D543CjfT7so

Issues:

Server lag at the beginning of the match. Sometimes Choke or Packet loss even though internet connection is stable.
3 Stacking (Playing with 2 of my friends in my lobby) or even just 1 other player makes the matches very laggy.
In-game ping counter showing un-accurate ping higher than if u just ping in cmd / mtr tools.
Not enough servers in the UK to cover all of us in Africa / Sub-Saharan Africa ,so add more scalability to the Multiplay platform to enable lets say like 1-3 London selectable servers
Since Bahrain (Middle East Servers) for everyone in southern Africa we get like 130-170ms on those servers , most of us just prefer to play on the London UK servers making them overloaded.

Checks carried out from my PC:

My Ping is stable
Bandwidth is fine
Port forwarding enabled & ~~disabled~~ tested but no change.

If u need anymore information get in touch , please watch the full YouTube video to get a better understanding of what's happening.

ronne · Answer

Same issue! So, everything was fine for me (in Vienna) and my friend (in Frankfurt) until few weeks back. What basically happens is, some games instantly start with loss/choke indication and the game is simply not playable, beacuse the screen just jumps around (for both of us). It ALWAYS happens to both of us simultaneously (100%). We then try to leave the game or die instantly, however the game wont connect to lobby so we need to ALT+F4. After that, we chage the server and everything is fine again for a few games, then rinse-repeat. We found that the Belgian Servers are more stable (it happened there only twice), whereas the Frankfurt servers are trash. I am saying it is the servers, because if it were the connections (both +175MB connceitons with low latency) there would be no chance that both of us face the same issue 100% simultaneoulsy. Is there a known issue/fix? Maybe we need to change some connectivity settings? Can it be due to Windows?

fuzzykeuh · Answer

There is just many problems with the lag.
Bad servers that generate packetloss, PC players having a much better framerate and ping then console players. And putting people from allover the continent in one lobby. How this is supposed to be a competitive game is beyond me. How often do people get killed by a full clip before they even appeared on your screen?

How you expect people with 165ms ping to compete with 25ms ping? Did you ever play a competitive game? We used to not even start the compo if the ping was above 60!
And the modern day solution for lagcompensation of "what happens on your screen is also what will be sent to the server" does not work if the differences are so high! Even my own teammates are warping allover the place sometimes.

ioverfreaked_u · Answer

@Ronne Hi, i got the same issue since almost 2weeks now, this problem popped out of nowhere i wonder if its the Servers or Apex.

because im the only one expericing it whenever i get it and solo queue into lobbies whenever im asking if any1 haves loss/choke they say NO.

are some apex accounts bugged or whats happening? im trying to fix this with a mod from here for around 2weeks but nothing seems to help.

tradables · Answer

@iOverFreaked_u Server problems can arise out of nowhere and there is not much we can do about that on our end. Sometimes servers get so congested they start to get unhealthy. Servers work like us when we get sick. This may happen even if they aren't filled or congested. And if could be just the region sustaining problems.

Have you tried changing regions? Hosts if playing with friends? Tried a VPN?

ioverfreaked_u · Answer

@Tradables Yeah, i have one screen in my thread its almost all regions that show packet loss.. I just reinstalled in on Steam but nothing seems to work.

its defiently not a problem from my side i just done a speed test again 250 m/bit.

Also i dont get this in any game tested couple of games and they are not giving me any laggs / loss / choke