Game kept disconnecting, team reported me and now I have 20 min queue penalty

SweetnSourDimSum··1 votes·1,356 views

I'm living in a college dormitory right now where we recently just got a new ISP, the connection is newly set up and shared among all of us who lives here.

Usually when it's day time when people are out and about, the connection works perfectly fine, but sometimes even during the day my roommates are watching movies or using the internet, the wifi signal can get extremely bad and I end up with literally 1-2k ping in a game, making it essentially unplayable.

My game also keeps on getting disconnected by that point and stayed at the "Reconnecting" screen, in which case I have to manually exit the game, sometimes reset the router in the common room (risk pissing off my roommates), and relog into the game.

Sometimes it works, and I get around 100-200 ping which makes it somewhat playable, sometimes it doesn't work and I'm just stuck with disconnecting and reconnecting all game.

A duo queue from last game got pissed off that I had to disconnect and reconnect so many times, leaving them to fight 4 vs. 5. It was never my intention to abandon the game, my connection is something completely outside of my control and I even showed them that my ping is literally 1-2k, and there was nothing I could possibly do to fix it in the mean time.

But they reported me for "going afk" and "leaving the game" anyways, and now I have a 20 minute queue penalty.

How is this fair.....? Are we going to punish people now for factors completely outside of their control? If my house suddenly catches fire and I have to leave a game and my team reports me, am I going to get punished?

If a local powerline gets hit by a lightning and my PC loses power mid way through a game and my team reports me for suddenly disconnecting from the game, and I going to get punished?

I wish to have an official Riot response from this.

11 Comments

Morality Coach3 votes

1000 ping cause you're using WiFi is afk in my book. Wire the computer up and stop ruining the game for other people.

SweetnSourDimSum1 votes

There is no possible way for me to connect to the router in the common room using an Ethernet cable (it's too far), I'm not sure which university you go to but student housing regulations don't let you do it either. They aren't going to have 30 cables going all over place on a floor.

I would say the connection is fine 90% of the time during the day, and that's when I play the game, but I don't control when and how many people get to use the internet in my dorm. Sometimes more people stay in during the day and use the internet, I don't control that.

This is an online game where players are going to have different gig set up, different machines, different internet speed, and with so many different configurations, technologies will fail sometimes, it's just the way it is. If you can't deal with other people having the occasional technical issues when playing an online game, don't play. Go play a board game.

Z Statistic1 votes

If you have a landline phone, you have an ethernet port right next to it. You don't need to hook up your cord to the router itself.

SweetnSourDimSum1 votes

I wish it's that easy, but there are no landline phones in dorm rooms.

Z Statistic1 votes

um...what is the emergency plan in case the university needs to find you?

Regardless, go to your UC or student hub and play there on your laptop then. Or go to a building that has an ethernet cable. I can't imagine that no place on campus has an ethernet port.

SweetnSourDimSum1 votes

I might, thanks for the suggestion. But like I said the internet is fine majority of the times. People just need to realize that technologies can screw up.

Morality Coach1 votes

You need to realize that your Internet is your responsibility and you are not to play league while lagging. Get a wire stop making excuses.

Morality Coach2 votes

No this is the most competitive rabid online game out there. Go to Penguin Club or Pokemon GO if you have lag and you aren't willing to do what it takes to not have lag. You go play a board game if you have lag, not other people, YOU.

Besides you're in college, you should be talking to girls not playing games. Let me tell you something about games. You can quit games for 5 years and when you come back, the games will be better, you won't miss anything. You will miss out on life playing LoL in college all the time.

Nobody here knows you or even likes you, we don't owe you part of our day getting annoyed at your lag.

I lived in the dorms for 3 months before I left and got an apartment. Dorms are legit stupid. The girls that live in the dorms aren't going to want to bang a guy that lives in the dorms cause if it screws up you have to see each other every day.

SweetnSourDimSum2 votes

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No this is the most competitive rabid online game out there. Go to Penguin Club or Pokemon GO if you have lag and you aren't willing to do what it takes to not have lag. You go play a board game if you have lag, not other people, YOU.

Besides you're in college, you should be talking to girls not playing games. Let me tell you something about games. You can quit games for 5 years and when you come back, the games will be better, you won't miss anything. You will miss out on life playing LoL in college all the time.

Nobody here knows you or even likes you, we don't owe you part of our day getting annoyed at your lag.

I lived in the dorms for 3 months before I left and got an apartment. Dorms are legit stupid.

Because DOTA, CS, Overwatch, Starcraft, FIFA, etc, etc, all those online games don't count as competitive.

Get out of your cave.

I'm getting my second degree, I already had the college life, thanks but I don't need a life coach from a self-entitled obnoxious prick who thinks anyone that plays with him in LoL is mandatory to have a Cat5 internet speed.

Morality Coach2 votes

It isn't entitled to expect bums to follow the rules.

Follow the rules broke bum, or get the po po called on you for trespassing, same as any other bum.

Bum

WilliTheWit2 votes

I fully agree. If you know you have a bad connection, you simply riun your team's games. On purpose, because you know upfront that the line is crap. You seem to have had enough D/C's already to get you into a low prio queue...

And being in a dorm or not, if many people share one network, you must always fear disrupts. This game requires fast action. It's like if I would be playing on a hotel's WLAN when I'm out on business.

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