I know you’re frustrated but what you say about other games working fine and that you feel like you get the brush off with “it works fine for us, it’s you” is why I am replying since it sounds like you are blaming the game.
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People keep comparing it to other games, I get it tho, but it’s apples and oranges. Does it suck? yes, big time, but the alternative would be that I would never be able to visit my beloved Conkie, nor he me, I would not like that. Heck, if it had been like that from the start I would have no clue who you are you big lump of grump!
Perhaps one day someone smarter than us finds a good solution to these types of issues, I hope it is fast since I would then not be hesitant to start building on AUS planets for instance! 98% of the time I have no issues there but some times, ouch…
There were many articles written just before the complaints began, which at the beginning of this thread it was mentioned.
It’s very likely a factor given its timing, population impacted on specific backbones.
No way we’re going to actually know this though because I don’t think the people that manage those lines want to expose themselves to being as vulnerable as they are.
There is likely going to be a lot of collateral damage which I earlier mentioned will suck because there isn’t anything that anyone will be able to do about it.
After reading the responses from the developers on this subject I was starting to suspect that the net neutrality repeal was part of the problem. The end of this regulation in 2018 was thought to cause speed problems. Just a thought.
Until any of this is confirmed by people who work in the industry, this is all just propaganda and fearmongering to me, „News“ people speculating, doesn’t cut it.
It’s the most reasonable thing since everyone talked to says there is nothing they can do about it. The problem crop up at the same time articles are written.
I suppose you could be right and it’s fear mongering. So if that’s not the problem than what is? We will never know I guess and like the fellow Conkurr says, if we can’t access the worlds there is no reason to play.
That’s a game problem unless as the developer says the 10-13 people having problems are an acceptable loss.
Really? That another country happens to be targeting select services that also happen to impair boundless servers but little else? I am sorry but to me that is not the most reasonable thing in my book and in my view point of the lag situation for boundless
I am experiencing heavy lag to boundless, but to no other game, I checked every single other online game that I play, and from both ISPs that I am connected to, they are all fine at this time, No other website seems to be loading slow or failing to load, in fact the only website I have had a problem with personally is the boundless forums which were down at two different times for me, everything else works just fine for me, so I find it very hard to believe that even if the group of people who are being mentioned here was doing this crime, they would be selectively targeting something that relates to the boundless servers and little else.
If I was experiencing problems to more then just boundless, then maybe I might be slightly more inclined to believe such things. but even then, I would most likely blame it or something else. A routing problem by the ISP, or QoS policy I have going on one of my own routers acting up, An attack would be the last thing on my mind until I see evidence of such.
I tend to work off of facts, not speculation and most certainly not speculation from propaga-- uh, news websites.
Now I am not sure about you all, but if boundless is the only thing that you are having lag in, then I think it is pretty unreasonable to think this is an attack from the people mentioned.
I haven’t tried playing any other games so not sure if any of them have lag. But I don’t really have lag on here either. But I don’t have Comcast or xfinity. But I also don’t know which games I have use aws to other countries as I don’t play many online games that aren’t using servers hosted by themselves or ones that pair me with people in other countries. Destiny I know would in pvp but I don’t really ever play pvp and when I do strikes or raids I play with my guild mates and most of them live in my state or the surrounding states. So nothing far.
I wasn’t saying it’s it’s directly impacted by it. If that’s what’s going on, and they are ddos’ing a backbone which the xfinity forum seemed to suggest was happening (lag problems on the backbone, not with Comcast or aws) then it is an indirect complication from whatever they may be doing.
People are reporting problems at the tier 3 level. Outside of an infrastructure problem, what would be another reasonable possibility?
I’m not trying to be propagandist. Sorry that you read it as such. Just trying to figure out where the problem is occurring since again nothing seems to be fixable. If it’s indeed a tier 3 problem, then that seems like a pretty substantial deal and it’s not just boundless having problems. Personally those of us with issues are probably only seeing those issues in boundless while others who don’t play boundless might be seeing them in other avenues.
But this isn’t the first time this happens, the devs themselves said this is one of their biggest problems, so it’s nothing new. I’m not saying you’re wrong, we simply can’t know for sure what’s causing the issues this time around, only speculate.
The forum link posted above by @AeneaGames explains it pretty well I think. It’s not JUST Boundless, it is a very specific issue of Comcast users trying to connect to AWS servers in the EU. However, I can confirm that using a VPN works in this situation!! If you get a VPN, (I recommend an unlimited one, used up 50MB in under 2 minutes), you should be good to go. I am thinking of upgrading to Bitdefender’s premium VPN which would allow me unlimited usage.
For all the other lag not connected to this issue, I would have to guess it’s just regular connection issues. Like someone else said, most other games connect you to a server in your region. Try playing CSGO or something on an EU or Asia server. Even if you have great internet you will probably notice a big difference in your connection. I would also think that lower speed internet would have greater impact in Boundless than other games. One of my other guild members (doesn’t post in here) has had troubles lagging horribly on any world for a while now and is just waiting to get a PC and fiber to play again.
EDIT: It looks like some threads were merged so there may be a bit of confusion. To clarify, my first paragraph is specifically addressing the Comcast users who are unable to play on EU planets.
Circarpous is the world i have most connection instability. try to look for meteors outta the TNT hub and I get lagged back to TNT. Once there was an EU exo i hunted on and the lag desperately tried to kill me It kept me in the water, lagged me in front of a mighty wildstock, and lagged me directly while grappling into the path of a mountain.
A backbone is Tier 1, not a Tier 3, and if you are indeed intending to refer to an Tier 3 ISP, they have problems all the time, nothing new there, which is why I am connected to two ISPs.
Ok. Thanks for the clarification. I don’t know a lot about that.
It must be nice to have the option of 2 isp. We only have 1 and have to take what we get.
The answer seems quit clear though. I only ever signed to the forum to try to get help but it doesn’t seem possible so I will just quit playing for a while and check again in some time if I can play again.
Thanks for your insight. Makes it clear for me what I can do to change the situation.
I second that. I cannot even get to Circarpous, or refresh my portal. Portal went down and cannot even reopen it because it won’t connect. Hope they don’t give it away to someone else…
It kept me in the water, lagged me in front of a mighty wildstock, and lagged me directly while grappling into the path of a mountain.