No specific recommendations other than to fine tune Congestion Control for your network, utilize Traffic Prioritization and use the Geo-Filter to force the closest servers to you. If the servers play badly then force servers slightly further away even if the ping is a little higher as the server may be under less load and actually play better.
To deal with the horrendous lag compensation, with previous games I have to put myself in other locations. Should I have to? No. Should it work? No. But, for some reason, it does.
I've had friends in the same city as me, but who don't know anything about what should be an ideal connection, play on my system and have a terrible experience. Most of them don't have gaming routers, play on wi fi with other connections going, dont try to open ports, and generally have no clue that they go against every suggestion that should make a good connection, but can compete at home but not here.
I play other games that require good latency and have no issues, nor do I have any other issues. My buffer bloat rating is A+ when I run it.
I have a gig up (sometimes more) and 35 MB down and from my location, my latency is typically less than 100 ms anywhere in the country. It's about 75ms within 2500 miles of my location. And it's around 20 ms to the CoD servers. I typically use congestion control at about 10 percent of down and 50 percent of up. I've found that putting them at 1 percent down and 5 percent up can help sometimes, but it gets laggy (regular game laggy) although, for some reason, it can help with the lag comp on close servers.
From the west coast of the US, I'll usually play in Australia and have a fighting chance. If I connect to the nearest servers, people see and hear me nearly a full second before I can see them. Playing thousands of miles away somehow eliminates that lag compensation. I can tell this easily because 1) I've been playing this game since the original on PC and know how the system works and 2) I can see reactions both live and in kill cams. If I play the original MW2, I don't need to do this but we all know how difficult it is to get a non-hacked game there. There have been a few CoD's like BLOPS III and I think one other one where this hasn't been an issue.
But with the current MW2, geolocating doesn't work. Neither the placement or the accepted range works. I put myself across the world with a small area and 0 assist ping, and it repeatedly only shows the nearest servers and connects me to them, albeit at a longer time in between games. And the game just is not close to playable when I'm connected to the nearest server.
I'm curious how many other people have this issue and if they have used geolocate to alleviate it. Also, have you had any success trying to geolocate yourself in the recent MW2 to a different area. I realize this was long winded, but I'm sure many of us are frustrated with trying to get a good connection with Call of Duty and always failing.
Thanks for any help provided.
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