Private Greenie

Thanks, that's not what I wanted to hear but was what I was kinda expecting. Atleast my expectations will align with how games play. Atleast I know why every lobby plays completely different to the one before, so thanks

Thats good to hear that you have determined the cause of the chat issue, im sure many people will be happy to hear that. Yes, that's best case scenario, tested at times of lowest usage rate for my area as per the providers CVC bandwidth utilisation graph. Peak usage only marginally increases both the packet lose percentage and the highest peak range for ping (ie the 40ms can go to 70ms)

I guess I was hoping I found the smoking gun you needed to fix chat. I've been chasing this issue around in circles pretty much since this service was connected last December, ive changed providers thinking the issue could have been due to the ISP handled backhual and there connectivity, to a provider who has the greatest connectivity availible here and was disappointed to discover no change to the issue I wanted to address. But I wasn't expecting that my pings to overseas servers such as Asian servers and also US servers are 20-30ms lower then the old provider, which was a nice surprise. Sorry about blabbing on, I guess I'm looking for any info about HFC connections you might be able to share. As the cabling from my wall socket to the street, and then to the network infrastructure for my area is all brand new, new trenches were dug for it less then 2 years ago so its probably unlikely there a 'fault' that can be repaired. With HFC being a shared service so to speak, am I expecting something its just not able to deliver, ie achieving a steady ping with little to no jitter and no detectable packet loss. The lowest packet loss I've been able to record in ping plotter over a 10 minute period is about 3 %, and the average would be 5%. Thats on a idle connection and it doesn't seam to matter if I try to congest the line amount of packet loss is the same. Is a ping of 8ms that bounces to 40ms about half the time, with less then 5% packet loss, about as good as HFC gets? Am I being unreasonable expecting something much better then this? With no other choice now adsl has been switched off in my area, and so far not hearing anything encouraging from my ISP, im looking for guidance whether I should continue trying to resolve this or just give up. Anyone having good experience on HFC? If so where you from? Any Aussies with nbn HFC getting better service then I am?

nah it fails even with respond to ping turned on, and the R1 rebooted. whats got me stumped is the low level packet loss im getting regardless of settings, device port and change of lan cables. nothing ive done has managed to change the fluctuating pings from 8ms up to around 40ms which happens on idle connection and when attempting to congest the line. same thing with the packet loss. ive tried isp support and no luck, but ive got another support request in with ping plotter logs so hopefully i can get it sorted. 2-5% packet lose is frustrating as hell, but im positive ive narrowed it down to the 'line' as i get the same results computer wired direct to modem, which i hadnt last time i spoke to them so they basically ignored me after the basic line test

ok ill turn it on, just a fyi that was disabled following a hard reset as per the instructions above. yes i have respond to ping off. im guessing your asking coz turning it off broke icmp

No, but i did change it to 5 app tries upon reboot. but so so far its been good. that screen i posted, which by default has 'port scan protection' disabled, is that the recommended setting? As per the attached pic, 25 servers failed to ping when trying the Coldwar Ping Heatmap As per the second pic, at https://ipv6-test.com/ which i ran a test from as my new ISP supports IPv6, i got the following result. 'Your router or firewall is filtering ICMPv6 messages sent to your computer. An IPv6 host that cannot receive ICMP messages may encounter problems like some web pages loading partially or not at all.' Just wondering if this could be why party chat might not be working. And word of caution, last week my activation account was 'hacked' Someone managed to log into my account and change the email address effectively locking me out of it, without even a email notice saying it had been done. just when i loaded up the game i got the message saying a activision account is needed to play online and asking me to create a account. im in the middle of the process which they say takes 10 days to recover the account so fingers crossed. ive not been able to find out how the data breach happened, but i assume it got to be something activision/ Call of Duty related as no other service i have was affected. So i recommended everyone to change their password to avoid suffering such a problem

So i followed your advice and noticed the following as being enabled after logging back in after the hard reset

It's a CM8200

@netduma Fraser ok thanks ill gave that a go, my HFC arris modem is fairly recent, i remember something about a chipset problem a few years back, any idea how to check?

I've also changed isp's since I had posted last and now on a 250/25mbps plan. The extra bandwidth is nice but even tho this provider had significantly better POI's & POP'S then my previous ISP and there recommended by many sources as the best provider for gamers and others wanting lowest latency possible, ive found that rather then the download bandwidth availible during peak times be much lower then its regular speed, as on my previous isp, it actually is the upload that takes a huge hit sometimes 50% lower while the download generally slightly exceeds the 250mbps my connection Is configured for. This has required me to set the duma to NOT share excess and ive had to assign my xbox only 2mbps upload in order to play on a stable ping. Which I suspect isn't the ideal situation, any suggestions would be welcome

Hi, sorry for such a delay in posting a reply, umm yes I usually have it open on a second monitor for the first game or 2, and then close the browser and only open it again and log in when im not happy with the connection to check whether im on a local server or not, as I filtering servers didn't seam to improve anything and seriously delayed match making and I also wanted to eliminate the filtering as the cause to somewhat frequent disconnects from the server in cold war that would happen during every other game I played.

now? yes after redoing the upgrade, yes just settings keeps crashing. so no traffic is passing on my xbox while in game and thats why its showing offline. i took that screen shot after noticing that happen in game several times, i respawned and took it. do you mean speedtest on the xbox? and super impressed by the weekend reply's, wasn't expecting that, thumbs up.

those strange IPs? no have yet to see them. im connected by cable to xbox. ill attach the log if there interested, it still showing apps failing and even an entry saying its giving up on trying to restart them. my time zone is correctly set. ill try that on the dashboard. thanks for helping so far, to everyone involved. log-1618614722018 17.4.21.txt

this is while im playing an online game on the xbox COD MP

still getting this message too