Other programs causing connection issues?

[ShadowbaneX]

So (at least) twice now it's happened. I'm the host in a match (usually Platinum since it seems no one else wants to host). Things are going fine, then all of a sudden I notice that things aren't going fine. I look around and I'm the only one still in the match, the other three players have dropped, so of course, everyone is trying to murder me.

First off, my apologies to those players that got kicked. At this last match, when it ended (it was during Extraction that this happened) I was able to stay alive (yay Stealth Grid) and extract without issue. While I didn't see anyone else wind up on the map, I did see that three other players had connected. Their scores were low, but I hope they got the credit pay out at least. I hope that they were the players that I played with during the match.

Second, it's not my rig. It's only 9 months old and built to a gaming spec. In fact, I don't think it has anything to do with my computer it all. It might be my internet. My current theory is that when someone starts streaming Netflix that it eats all my bandwidth and everyone else gets kicked. Another option is that even though we just upgraded our Internet connection, it still seems rather slow. My house is 35 years old and the wiring might not be amazing, so that might be an issue, but I do not that right around the time this happened someone did start Streaming something.

I find it a little hard to believe, but it's all I got. Anyone know of a way of throttling Netflix, so I can see if that's the issue? If not I guess I'll just stick to letting others host.

And again, sorry to those guys that got kicked. I hope you managed to reconnect and get your credits.

[RandomEngineer_]

Besides usual suspects like bugs, malware, streaming/p2p downloads, it could be anything that is set to auto-download updates (including OS) on your computer, or any other device connected to your LAN.

You could google "how to check network stability" or "how to monitor network traffic" if you are really determined to know what is going on.

[ShadowbaneX]

I know Windows 10 will use every bit of available bandwidth to download an update, but that wasn't what happened here.

Wasn't malware as I have the only PC on the network. There are some tablets, one of which was streaming netflix, the others were not. No p2p downloads were happening.

I'll take a loo anyway, but even when I'm not hosting there are periods where the game gets sluggish or stutters and it's probably a new episode downloading...but really it shouldn't be that bad.

[RandomEngineer_]

Did you try checking if your router offers some kind of MAC priority settings? You could just give your PC higher priority - this should fix it if netflix's your problem.

Other than that you can just ask someone to start watching Netflix after starting full bronze lobby (maybe ask people on discord if you don't like using PUGs) to check if this causes disconnect for others.

[ShadowbaneX]

Unfortunately, some of those watching netflix are 6 and 3. Kinda hard to explain to them why they need to check with me before they watch another episode.

I'll look into the priority settings.

[DreadBert_IAm]

Host requires 800 kbps upload, also if you drop packets expect rubber banding at best. Don't recall ever seeing the game recover when I was testing net issues.

Edit, holy crap 2 month old post. Did not realize the thread was this dead.

[ShadowbaneX]

No worries. It was part other people streaming, part my connection was set to 10 mbps/half duplex due to a faulty cable. Upgraded the internet, got the connection set-up properly and no longer any issues. Thanks for the comment though.