200 mbps Internet DL Speeds and still get random "Attempting to Reconnect"

Beer Me Blazer·Mar 24, 2018·2 votes·499 views

Occasionally, throughout my games, I will get the "DC" message to pop up then I can't move my character or anything. However, I pay for 200mbps download speeds (relatively cheap too) through Spectrum. I can literally alt tab onto my web browser and everything works perfectly fine, fast loading of a web page, YouTube, Facebook, etc. even all while this message is up. Does Spectrum not work well with the server? Is there a setting I need to fix somewhere in windows for this to stop happening? Its not necessarily breaking my game, just a minor annoyance and it will last anywhere from 5-15 seconds typically. Any thoughts?

10 Comments

MordiusMar 24, 20182 votes

Basically you have a really fast car, but your GPS gave you the worst possible route.

Submit a support ticket and see if they can work something out with your ISP

Beer Me BlazerMar 24, 20181 votes

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Basically you have a really fast car, but your GPS gave you the worst possible route.

Submit a support ticket and see if they can work something out with your ISP

thanks!

Communist ToastMar 24, 20181 votes

your download speed doesn't mean anything about connecting to servers.

CrisisEchoesMar 24, 20181 votes

200 megabits per second is like what... 2 megabytes?

notFREEfoodMar 24, 20182 votes

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200 megabits per second is like what... 2 megabytes?

8 bits = 1 byte

network speeds are measured in bits though, so saying you have a 25 megabyte per second connection is wrong

CrisisEchoesMar 24, 20182 votes

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8 bits = 1 byte

network speeds are measured in bits though, so saying you have a 25 megabyte per second connection is wrong

can be measured in either. maybe its not the way youd like it but it really is irrelevent.

notFREEfoodMar 24, 20182 votes

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can be measured in either. maybe its not the way youd like it but it really is irrelevent.

Says the person who doesn't know how many bits are in a byte. The "way I'd like it" is the industry standard. When you go to an ISP, the speeds are always in bits per second. When you go to a vendor, they give you speed in bits per second.

You may have seen file transfer speeds given in bytes per second, however file transfer speeds are not the same as network speeds. You will never get 25 MBps on a 200 Mbps link - there's overhead for the packet headers and things like latency and packet loss can affect the TCP transmit rate.

CrisisEchoesMar 25, 20181 votes

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Says the person who doesn't know how many bits are in a byte. The "way I'd like it" is the industry standard. When you go to an ISP, the speeds are always in bits per second. When you go to a vendor, they give you speed in bits per second.

You may have seen file transfer speeds given in bytes per second, however file transfer speeds are not the same as network speeds. You will never get 25 MBps on a 200 Mbps link - there's overhead for the packet headers and things like latency and packet loss can affect the TCP transmit rate.

go troll someone who gives a damn =P. obviously sarcastic as shit when i said 200 = 2. sorry i forgot people dont have common sense these days.

Meta OpusMar 24, 20181 votes

get fios 940/880

Proxy345Mar 24, 20181 votes

Buy a powerline adapter kit,you can thank me later lol the connection is stable as fuck,depending upon the wiring where you live that is but I cannot go back to using WiFi on my rig and USB WiFi adapters suck.