Connection / Ping Problem ...

Hi there

Same problem here... very high pings and packet loss.

Just check the picture.

Actually, pings inside game are much bigger than those in picture.

I get pings going from 272 ms to a max of 861ms, and loss from 2% till 61%.

such problems could have many different sources

maybe some broken hardware which forces the providers to use a different gateway
or
all of a sudden increasing traffic due to holidays
or
a new stream service which uses this gateway
or
net attacks
or
NSA
or
...

there is relative little you can do against it atm
about 1 year ago all STO players from europe suffered similar problems due to a problem with one of the cogentgo gateways in the USA
dunno how the problem was finally solved but its running normal again

Dont do this. The gateway is the gateway your router would be available to dial into the world wide web, your interface to the big world. The subnet mask tells the router in which net it actually is.

This setting is used to forward incoming connections directly to one of your devices, PC, Playstation, Fridge, Whatever needs web access. But its not to directly connect to any server in the web. That simply is only possible for your provider to fulfill. But never this could be done by any end user- There will always be hops between you and the server you connect to. The first one btw is your router. The 2nd one very likely the hub that connects your neighbors and so on and so forth.

If you want to improve the connection quality based on your end you can forward the port used for FL 2300 - 2400 in your router (UCP and TCP/IP)

i dont even know what you are trying to do

Quote from Huor

If you want to improve the connection quality based on your end you can forward the port used for FL 2300 - 2400 in your router (UCP and TCP/IP)

^ That.

But his router interface is way different than mine.

but huors post started with "dont do this"

Hello The Original,
my family have a router with a similar interface + "More" button under Helpful Hints on the right, which opens a more detailed description (see attached screenshots).

I think you maybe (!) should fill your boxes as follows:

Tick: enabled
Name: Freelancer or CF or something "meaningful to you"
Private IP: Your PC's IP in your home LAN (in my interface I just select from the list and it fills IP like 192.168.0.100 etc., you can also look it up in Status -> LAN Computers)
Allowed Public IP: no idea, maybe leave this empty or fill with your router's public IP (Status -> WAN -> IP address)
Public Port: 2300 ~ 2400
Private Port: 2300 ~ 2400 (not sure, looks like your router can remap ports?)
Traffic Type: Any

Then press Save Settings and hope it works

- Wanderer -

Quote from Huor

Dont do this.

I tried this some years ago with no better result. My connection got better when I bought a faster Router and upgraded my Internet line
If you use WiFi use a cable to router instead. That will improve you connection 10x.

Well actually you just need to forward the ports. That could improve the connectivity, but as you already posted, the bottle-neck is somewhere on the net, not on your end nor on the servers end. So all what you could try on your side wont do anything that could improve the handling and latency between the hops.

nope, no changes were done to the connection