Packet Loss Out - BF4 PC

Contact your ISP and let them know the IP address of the hops dropping packets. It is on their side and nothing you can do on your side will change this.

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@Heret1c121 wrote:
@ragnarok013Yes and Yes!

So a bit of info. Talked to ISP. They "repinged/retraced" my router, then had me reset it to force a new ip or something, and that helped a LOT! So my packet loss is mainly in the single digits now and mostly playable!

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Hi @Heret1c121 ,

Any level of package loss is truly toxic for first person shooter games, as it causes missing hit registrations for you and enemies in the gameplay.

Its often caused by the customer and/or ISP that pushes the line speed rate up so high, that the involved hardware and software can no longer ensure line quality.  My recommendation was that you ask your ISP to lower your line speed just a bit, as that will typically bring wonders to your line quality and ensure you have consistently zero package loss!

This is btw also reason #1 for the many players observing the "You lost connection to the EA Game Server" error situation...

FPS games do really not need much in terms of line speed. Only like 3-4 Mb/s download and 750kb/s upload is more than sufficient.

But the line quality is an absolute must.

Btw, with all the above comments, I trust that you are not using WiFi or 3G/4G for connecting your game platform to the Internet...?

He must of seen your tracert, he wasn't calling you toxic, just the two routers that were dropping all those packets. BF4 uses UDP so when a router starts dropping packets the game will do all sorts of weird stuff.

I'm glad your ISP helped some with your connection but those routers dropping packets are going to cause you unending headaches. You need to escalate with your ISP and see if they can contact the router owners that are causing all the issues.

You should try and do quiet line check, you would need to search to see if your ISP/line provider has a service to do it. I know in the UK we have multiple we can use

Indeed @sk1lld ,

Not sure what triggered @Heret1c121 to think otherwise, as just highlighted the ISP could improve his line quality by simply lowering the line speed just a bit.  As the gaming do not need at all all that line speed he had.

But that appear to confuse some players.  (even the super experienced ones...  🙂)

The game cannot even utilize higher speeds.  But higher speeds compromise the line quality.  Hence the reason to lower the speed to enable a consistently high quality line and get rid of the package drops.

Happy that your ISP got it fixed for you @Heret1c121  !