try to reinstall windows
when any game doesn't work i reinstall windows.
btw what the "router" you all talking about?
from 30 years in IT ......
please dont do that
the work it will give you is huge
its a bit like rebuilding your house when you have a leaky tap
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Couple of updates and replies to the points raised above:
First, game worked perfectly last night all evening with absolutely no changes to my system / network environment. This is using Aquiss Internet / Entanet UK – on an Asus RT-AC87U modem (this seems to be a pretty nice bit of kit that supports UPnP / static IPs for specific devices etc and various adaptive QOS options (currently preferring gaming).
In general my connection works pretty well on other games (dota2 etc) but I appreciate the P2P nature of ED creates different challenges. The ping test advised in the ED FAQ “ping -t -l 900 bbc.co.uk or ping -t -l 8.8.8.8” showed stable netconnection throughout.
Anyway as I say, the connection was generally excellent all last night and mission boards near instantly updating, no drops and generally reliable gameplay.
Today its not as bad as yesterday but still considerably worse than evening play. I’ve gone ahead and set a static IP and configured port forwarding as advised on the ED network FAQ and its had an improvement on reliability – but there are still very long pauses when loading mission screens and jumping from system to system or general session changes. It seems like the Port Forward option means its more reliable in handling LONG pauses in connectivity but doesn’t really improve performance per say.
Couple of notes specific to points raised in the thread.
1. Norton Security is always my first thought when network problems happen so I always try turning it off to test – this made no difference to the daytime issues.
2. As before its Solo, Group and Open play affected equally.
3. The Asus router is being fed by a standard BT broadband modem. The asus modem has the most up to date firmware and now has the internal firewall functions disabled.
4. No other traffic on the network during these tests. It’s a direct connection to the router by cable.
5. Yeah didn’t bother with the DMZ option
In conclusion. Couldn’t really find anything obviously wrong with my connection and the symptoms seem massively worse in UK daytime than during the evening. I guess brings it down to the following obvious options ….
a) My ISP (or backbone provider) doing anti P2P traffic shaping during ordinary working hours 06:00 -> 18:00 …
b) Frontier doing something to their own network that makes network perform considerably worse during UK working hours.
Ultimately it’s a tricky one to track down because of the weird fact that it works perfectly sometimes. Instant Mission screen access, game loading and jumping vs (minutes worth of delays and hanging) strange business.
Still I now know a lot more about my router than I did before and have configured it for port forwarding!
Cheers everyone who provided help and advice so far.
This is the game unfortunately I see the same issues across my friends ... all of whom run different stacks (versions of HW / Operating systems / drivers / networking)
The last bad wing session I had i found the server IP (just use windows resource monitor and look down at your networking connections) ... when i pinged this the round trip times were terrible and there seemed to be packet loss . So I think we are dealing with 2 issues
1) issues in how the game communicates with us and between all the back-end micro services
2) issues with the servers in the amazon cloud (AWS)
I have tried all the networking tweaks but havnt put my machine in a DMZ as i'd rather avoid an attack on it, doing this can be like plugging your machine into an internet cafe in lagos......and ive been to lagos
