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Best way to reduce lag on LAN?
So I have the XR500, and a gs108 switch. Currently I have the Xbox One and my PC connected to the switch as well as other stuff. Everything is Gigabit. When I stream my Xbox to my PC, I occassional...
diehardbattery1 wrote:So I have the XR500, and a gs108 switch. Currently I have the Xbox One and my PC connected to the switch as well as other stuff. Everything is Gigabit. When I stream my Xbox to my PC, I occassionally experience lag. I am thinking there might be a way to isolate these 2 devices from other LAN traffic to increase performance and hopefully eliminate the lag.
Back to the roots.
Permitting the game does run without an Internet connection ...
- Create a direct connection between the Windows system and the Xbox. I would assume both go to a ZeroConfig address (unless there are static IPs in place). And test.
- Create a dedicated connection with just the Windows system, link to the switch, link to the Xbox, Xbox. And test.
- Create a dedicated connection with just the Windows system, link to the XR500, link to the Xbox, Xbox. And test.
What appears like lag could be simply a massive packet loss and/or errors.
Another point worth checking: Some network interfaces come with really bad Windows drivers - which are leading to low performance in general.
The game is COD WW2, so I do need an internet connection for that. I've been running now for almost an hour with zero issues. I'm still at a loss as to what might be causing the lag spikes. I am now leaning more toward that there must be something on the network is doing this. When I check the network activity to see if I can find what device might be causing it, I'm not seeing anything definitive. The most I've seen other devices take is less than 5mbps of the internet bandwidth.