What is lag switching?

[SeeDee]

A mate tells me that every match is hosted off the killer's internet and lag switching is where the killer starts downloading crap so cause the survivors to get high ping. Is this the case or am I completely off?
If that is how it works, how do I know if the killer is lag switching?

Just now, the lobby of this match said 61ms, in game, we got 4 gens without the slightest lag, then suddenly, 2 people just disconnect and I start teleporting everywhere, yet the killer was able to land both hits on me and hook me.

Did the killer start lag switching?

[TheMetalCorpser]

Lag switching is when the host finds a way to downgrade their own speeds on purpose to cause issues for others. Usually it entails the use of a piece of equipment to limit the flow of traffic.

Read this[www.lifewire.com]

[Dakishimete]

It is basically a cheat or a bot so survivors will lag hard and the killer will just be fine. That's why killers should not host a server

[Dante Ironclaw]

Lag switching is usually to give the killer an advantage since it makes the survivors lag out and unable to respond immediately to what happens.

[Ein Nineteenth]

Goes both ways.

Intentional Lag for Survivors : They move faster due to movement correction , actions complete faster, sprint burst / borrowed time/ mangled/ etc. do not run out. They can also crash killers who try to pick them up or hook them because while lagging your wiggle meter is completely out of sync with the Killer, so once it fills it up you automatically escape.
Note this can crash other survivors as well, if an intentionally laggy person is healing someone and another person also heals that same person the heal meter will jump, skip and someone might disconnect.

Intentional Lag for Killers: Survivors rubberband , prevent pallet dropping or freeze in place while vaulting/ cleaning/ no bar progression and the Killer moves freely.

Both are really scummy moves.

[Sonnolo]

basically devs like make shopper killers but spend 0 money for open dedicated servers

[EvilJoshy]

Personally, let me keep his teachables, but let the devs take back freddy. Instead use that money to buy servers.

[Aki]

you dont need hacks or cheats to lagswitch in dbd. it's on your own internet connection. means if you turn off your connection and while dbd tries to reconnect you, you can do different stuff like downing survivors and then you turn on your connection and go on. Absurd? Yea but thats p2p

[why me?]

Sounds like lag switching...

https://www.twitch.tv/videos/230615430