Can Some Explain What the Cause of Packet Burst Is, That is Not CoD related?

Thank you so much for this reply, which I somehow managed to miss earlier. This is exactly what I thought the main causes could be, yet if you look at the vanguard subreddit, the amount of misinformation is absolutely mind blowing. Even YouTube is full of videos giving useless pointers, but prefacing their silly suggestions with "the servers are trash in this game." Honestly, I've not had much trouble with the servers, and have even had luck with the Geo-Filter working. I don't play a lot of Vanguard, but I want to be able to chime in, at some point, and let people know what is causing their packet loss issue.

Thank you, both of you, for helping a guy like me try to learn about this stuff. It's very, very fascinating.

Hey, plemans. I'll go ahead and just go one by one on your list, if that's OK. I know it will make me appear dull doing it this way, but here goes:

1. I have Comcast Cable, which runs directly to my Arris Surfboard SB6183. The modem is connected, via a 3ft Cat 6E patch cable, which runs directly to the "Internet" port on the back of my Netgear Nighthawk XR500. From the 4th LAN port in the back, I have a 25ft CAT 6E cable running directly to the back of my PS4.

2. My house is "decent size", but I'm not sure of the particular square footage. It is a 2 story, aluminum siding house with 4 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, a living room, and a kitchen.

3. I do live relatively close to neighbors all around me. I live at the end of a cul-de-sac (court), with about 75 feet of spacing from our house to the neighbors directly to my left and right. We have neighbors behind us, as well, as another street in the subdivision runs behind ours. From our back door, to the closest neighbors back door, is 295ft (roughly, according to Google maps).

4. I am gaming via a 25ft, cat 6e cable running from port number 4, directly to my PlayStation. My router has the ports for Call of Duty port-forwarded to my PlayStation 4. My PS4 has a static IP address assigned to it.

5. I game exclusively on PlayStation 4. That being said. . . there are 3 of us living in this house now, and the number of connected devices can be ridiculous if I don't seek out each device and turn them off, and delete them from the device manager. Once I actually start to game, there are usually around 4 or 5 devices online, but one of them, I believe, is causing a problem. The devices online while I game are a Galaxy S9 phone, my laptop (so I can watch my router GUI), my PS4, an iPad, and an XBox One (not the newest one). I believe the XBox one is part of my problem because it is always online, even when it's not in use. Despite my pleas, and explanations, I can not get my Dad to turn off his XBox. Instead, he leaves it in that "standby" mode that boots it up a few seconds quicker. Frustratingly, he doesn't even use any of the online features of the Xbox one- he just wants to have it online so he will get his Sniper Elite 4 updates (that is the only game he plays, and he has an embarrassing amount of days put into the game. Not once has he tried to play an online match, and I never game if I know he's playing his XB1. The XB1 connects via the 5ghz connection.

I know you're going to ask if I have "something" enabled (the name escapes me right now), and the answer is no.

Does this help at all?