Macca65 Posted November 14, 2016 Share Posted November 14, 2016 I am beginning to think so I spent a lot of hours over several days last week on my laptop connected to DSL Reports. I played with the sliders at different times of the day/evening and when I got A plus across the board I then checked the results on the little graphs, when I got very little jitter I saved the profile. Imagine my consternation when I retested the connection to check on the BB to find it was completely different, even though it was exactly the same settings. So I am beginning to think that all this messing about with settings is a waste of time, and effort with no great discernible result? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zennon Posted November 14, 2016 Share Posted November 14, 2016 If you test at a non peak time and then you test on an evening and you have a congested ISP that has over sold vs bandwidth your results will differ yes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Macca65 Posted November 14, 2016 Author Share Posted November 14, 2016 If you test at a non peak time and then you test on an evening and you have a congested ISP that has over sold vs bandwidth your results will differ yes. I understand that Zennon, I tested it during peak/off peak. I am just commenting on how a test would give a specific result I'd Triple A+ for BB Quality etc, check the results and the 3 graphs (idle, DL UL) would be levelish with a very small difference in jitter, and then test it again on exactly the same settings and the results would be different. I spent HOURS doing it all last week, ( I think I was bored ) and it would seem to no great difference to mu gaming experience. It's getting that way that I just boot up the PS4 and play, if it's shit, it's shit, if it's good it's good! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
major masingil Posted November 14, 2016 Share Posted November 14, 2016 I am beginning to think so I spent a lot of hours over several days last week on my laptop connected to DSL Reports. I played with the sliders at different times of the day/evening and when I got A plus across the board I then checked the results on the little graphs, when I got very little jitter I saved the profile. Imagine my consternation when I retested the connection to check on the BB to find it was completely different, even though it was exactly the same settings. So I am beginning to think that all this messing about with settings is a waste of time, and effort with no great discernible result? DSL reports only gives you an idea of your network connection at the time you test. There are so many external factors that you can't just find something that works every time. I have come to the same conclusion as you. Now I just place the sliders at 70/70, XB in Hyper lane. If it starts lagging a bit and I know there is stuff going on at home I move the sliders back a little more. If there's nothing going on at my side of the network, I attribute the lag to the server/players I'm in a lobby with. It makes me cranky, but I know there's nothing I can do from my end. Lately, I've been really thankful that TF2's servers have been so great. I think maybe 5-10 matches have been jittery out of way too many to count Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zennon Posted November 14, 2016 Share Posted November 14, 2016 I do not use that web site I use ping plotter as it is much more accurate. I only use it now to test to see if my ping is still stable. I used it first in tests to find the best CC algorithm and % while downloading and uploading to saturate my connection which was reactive 70% Buffer bloat is, jitter caused by saturation be that local or ISP congestion, so do not get caught up this DSL reports hype. As long as you have head room for the line never to saturate and your ISP is good then relax Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slipknot31286sic6 Posted December 11, 2016 Share Posted December 11, 2016 All hype definitely agree. Set Mines at 97/97 and no issues. Only reason for dsl reports is to see what your bb is at 100/100 . which on my line either like 2100ms. Insane but when at 97/97 no issues A+. Also if u speed test put 1mb lower in your speeds than what dsl reports says. Helped me a lot. I pay for 150 extreme. Test shows 180/25. I manually changed my speed to 179/24. Fixed a lot of issues and spikes when gaming on cod. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bbursley Posted December 21, 2016 Share Posted December 21, 2016 Haha slipknot I can't exactly put 1mb lower than 15/1 I have tried 14/1 but no matter what my upload is just to low to roll back a whole mbit. I've been trying to get my uplink buffer bloat fixed for ages. Used to be able to just set 95%/95% now if I even do that it doesn't work for me anymore with setting my actual speed as 15/1 or 14/1 I used to get great hit detection but I'm assuming it's also my ISP fking up as well. This bad weather hasn't been in my favor at all. When I even try to Skype it's all pixelated. Apparently I appear clear and they appear pixely to me and this person has a 40 download and like 10 upload connection so they should be clear as day on my end. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bbursley Posted December 21, 2016 Share Posted December 21, 2016 I've tried using reactive and I just literally get melted. No matter what the CC is set to. Preemptive feels snoother for me, I've even tried having it set to where CC is disabled and it kinda works okay but preemptive has been #1 for me since day one. Idk what it is about it. I think it's just my speeds aren't enough to take advantage of it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Netduma Fraser Posted December 22, 2016 Administrators Share Posted December 22, 2016 Preemptive is definitely better for your speeds. I wouldn't worry about bufferbloat at all. I would just go with 70/70 and see how you get on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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