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RelativeMadness's avatar
RelativeMadness
5 years ago
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Stuttering, intermittent freezing, lag/latency spikes

Hello, I posted this topic on the SWTOR Bug Reports Forums, here is the link. Upon a suggestion, I took snippits of the pingplotter's graphs.  10 snips over 30 minutes, at 5 minute segments.  The...
  • RelativeMadness's avatar
    RelativeMadness
    5 years ago

    Long story short, it was a coaxial tertiary coaxial cable outbound from a splitter on the outside of my house.

    It prior to the Tuesday of 11/24, the cable in question wasn't plugged in.  After painting with my family, the splitter and cables were reconnected, and that's when the spikes started happening.

    I asked my dad if he did anything different putting them back together, he said he came across one of the separate from the others that was originally disconnected.

    I went through one by one till I found one that could disconnect that didn't affect any other systems in the house.

    Low and behold!  My latency spiking issue was gone.


    It's a curious thing though for a coaxial leaving a splitter to cause lag spikes.  I've never heard of such an issue.

    Thank you for your help as well.

Lightpatel's avatar
Lightpatel
5 years ago

Hey! I have same problem, maybe slightly less.

RelativeMadness's avatar
RelativeMadness
5 years ago

Do you have any additional data?  Anything similar or different in terms of attempted fixes or issues?

  • proxos666's avatar
    proxos666
    Hero+
    5 years ago

    @RelativeMadness 

    Ask your ISP to test your link, pingplots suggest there may be an issue

    if this is a cable connection there maybe rust on the tap

    • Lightpatel's avatar
      Lightpatel
      5 years ago

      With my internet all good. Speed and ping is fine but problem still is. 

      • proxos666's avatar
        proxos666
        Hero+
        5 years ago

        @Lightpatel 

        Turn shadows to low and turn off vysnc if you have it on and switch to fullscreen window mode best i can offer on the info you provided

    • RelativeMadness's avatar
      RelativeMadness
      5 years ago

      Long story short, it was a coaxial tertiary coaxial cable outbound from a splitter on the outside of my house.

      It prior to the Tuesday of 11/24, the cable in question wasn't plugged in.  After painting with my family, the splitter and cables were reconnected, and that's when the spikes started happening.

      I asked my dad if he did anything different putting them back together, he said he came across one of the separate from the others that was originally disconnected.

      I went through one by one till I found one that could disconnect that didn't affect any other systems in the house.

      Low and behold!  My latency spiking issue was gone.


      It's a curious thing though for a coaxial leaving a splitter to cause lag spikes.  I've never heard of such an issue.

      Thank you for your help as well.

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