Insane lag only while playing with a certain friend.

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Durgen Mage Oct 11, 2017 @ 12:15am

Insane lag only while playing with a certain friend.

I never have ping issues with steam on any game usually, but whenever i play with one of my friends in particular I have 1500+ ping if he's hosting he has 1500+ ping if i'm hosting if we can connect at all. We live in the same city and it's not an issue of bad internet because we can connect to other people just fine. Anyone have any ideas or suggestions?

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ReBoot Oct 11, 2017 @ 12:16am

Well, what ISP are you guys on? The same, maybe?

Durgen Mage Oct 11, 2017 @ 12:17am

We are on the same ISP, could that be causing issue? I don't see how

ReBoot Oct 11, 2017 @ 12:19am

Well, it really is incredible, but certain ISPs have routing problems between own clients. They can route packets into the internet just fine, but not between clients. I suggest you bug your ISPs customer service.

Durgen Mage Oct 11, 2017 @ 12:21am

I might try that but i don't have that issue with other friends who live in the same city and have the same isp, unless it's just and issue between our clients.

ReBoot Oct 11, 2017 @ 12:24am

Does the problem appear in other games?

Durgen Mage Oct 11, 2017 @ 12:25am

it's in any game that uses P2P instead of dedicated servers.

ReBoot Oct 11, 2017 @ 12:48am

Ah, that's an important aspect! That means that BOTH of you have specific issues hat require the network protocol to work around. The workaround works just fine if one of you connect to an unaffected session and faiks if it needs to worm around both ways.

Tue solution is simple: Both of you should forward the appropriate ports. This way, both of you will become full workaround-free members of the P2P game session.

Well, simple in theory. Port forwarding can be intimidating the first time.

If you want,I an provide further explanation about that port stuff.

Last edited by ReBoot; Oct 11, 2017 @ 12:48am

Durgen Mage Oct 11, 2017 @ 2:20am

i have all the common ports that games use open as i often host games sessions for friends when the games don't have dedicated servers/matchmaking. I will have to have him open up those ports and see if that solves the issue

Lspartan Apr 24, 2021 @ 9:05am

Hey I know little about port fowarding, and I want to play with my friend that I have bad connection, to play with better ping do I need to foward the game ports or "his" ports (if such thing even exist)?