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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...
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    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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