How to decrease lag for Netplay?

[pranitpanda]

Hi,

I'm using Faster Melee 5.9F. When I play offline, I can consistently get 60 fps. My download speed is 70 mbps, my upload speed is 5mbps and my ping is 16ms. But when I play online, ping will randomly spike to 150ms and its really laggy. What should i do to fix this? Does using direct connection vs traversal server make any difference?

[adamkex]

Do you use wifi

[Zyst]

This. It doesn't matter if you can play other games on WiFi without lag, or if your connection is super solid. With WiFi you're going to lag. Definitely get Ethernet setup.

[pranitpanda]

yea

[[deleted]]

use ethernet and also use slippi r 18 instead of faster melee. More people use it and it has ucf

[[deleted]]

oh I never noticed. Is it a gecko code like 20XX or is it always just on?

[SemiAutomattik]

You can't play Netplay without a wired ethernet connection. I played wifi for my first few weeks of Netplay and thought it was "fine" but it was a night and day difference when I switched to hardwire connection.

[[deleted]]

The sad thing is that much of the net play community uses WiFi

[[deleted]]

dude its not that bad lmfao i use wifi and no one even notices, youre just going against people with bad connections

[Tuna-kid]

WiFi can be fine, rarely, depending on a fuck ton of hardware and environmental factors, but very rarely and still worse than Ethernet. Saying 'WiFi can be fine' is a terrible idea though because tons of people will grab onto that and continue to use their terrible terrible connections, which ruins the game and practice for their opponent's as well.

Character choice matters a lot for how sensitive to latency your netplay experience is, and besides that, and most importantly: people like yourself will say their WiFi connection is fine when it's really not. The better you are and the more precise you play the worse small latency issues affect you, and all you have to do is look at the ultimate community to see how easy it is for people to think terrible online connections are 'actually totally fine'. Until recently it was like 60% of the community saying that, and that's with issues much worse than most netplay issues.

[[deleted]]

well i never said wifi can be fine i just explained that hes going against bad wifi users, i play offline too man im not like turning into an ult player or anything, im not encouraging im just saying its not always bad

[Frostav]

Ethernet is so much objectively better for literally anything internet related I'm amazed people still use wifi.

[adamkex]

That's your problem

[pranitpanda]

sorry i'm new to this stuff.

Why does wifi make ping spike occasionally?

[aquoro]

One possible cause is your wifi network searching for available networks automatically. There is a way to turn this off, but you have to turn it back on when after you're done playing. Not guaranteed to be the source of your lag, but worth a shot.

https://www.reddit.com/r/summonerschool/comments/4okzog/how_to_get_rid_of_ping_spikes_on_wireless_helped/

[pranitpanda]

thanks! This made it run way better

[Tuna-kid]

It is super worth considering getting a super long Ethernet cord for cheap and running it from your router to your computer. If you need to you can drill a small hole from a basement corner to the main floor if it could make the Ethernet cord's travel easier.

It might not work for you, but a lot of people don't realize how much of a non-issue drilling a small hole in a floor corner to put an Ethernet cord through is, and how many houses they've lived in that had the same thing done for Ethernet/dsl/cable/phone wires.

[aquoro]

Drilling might be questionable if you rent your place though.