loftar wrote:Heximate wrote:I have seen some stuff on the forums that indicated maybe some people were having this issue?
It's pretty rare as far as I can tell, and it's always difficult to get useful details out of it, but my interpretation has been that there exists some network equipment has weird issues dealing with UDP traffic, which might be why you're not seeing a lot of it in other programs (since the vast majority of protocols use TCP). Not necessarily saying it isn't something that couldn't be worked around, but debugging the equipment to the point of finding out what it does more exactly is hard to do without direct access to it.
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could also be some sort of MTU issue (which the netcode could actually be better at handling), but it doesn't look that way in your case. If that were the case, I'd expect some sub-parts of the protocol to get through but not others, whereas in your case it looks like all incoming traffic is getting blocked somewhere.
Okay, well I'll keep playing around with it and see if I notice or find out anything useful. Instead of hooking up my computer directly to the modem, first thing I did was try my laptop yesterday with the game running through a VPN. It was the longest I had gone in a long time without any issues, and seemed to be running more stable, and never froze up like that except the few times the VPN just dropped connection completely.
Whether that was a fluke or not, I am not entirely sure, as my tests so far today without the VPN have also been more stable than usual and I haven't had the issue so far, but testing has only been ongoing for like 30-45 mins now, as I just got out of work recently. Hopefully, the issue won't reappear, but if it does I might just try to see if VPN solution ends up working and doesn't have too bad latency. Assuming that works without issues in that scenario, I might just go with that option, even if a little annoying, if that's what it takes to 'fix' it in the meantime. Thanks for the responses and take care.
Edit: Well, did end up having the issue again not going through a VPN just a minute ago, so will do some more testing playing through a VPN later and anything else I can think of. Probably set up a fresh install laptop going through just the cable modem later too, to see if the router might be the culprit.