Lag and "Stuck" buff bar

[doyler]

Oftentimes while playing I will experience fairly terrible lag, high latency, and powers will seemingly get "stuck" in my buff bar.

Here is a basic example in a solo mission.

 

This is what it looks like when PvP gets fairly unplayable (note that I'm respawning, so none of that is actually affecting me).


Here is a fairly common netgraph when this occurs.


And this is my internet speed. (Note that it's normally symmetric, but upload is being weird today)

 

And connections to Toronto, ON

 

Anyone have any ideas what might be causing this or how to fix/avoid it?

Edited March 19, 2020 by doyler

[Erydanus]

Your speed is fantastic but the ping and outages are of course, nonfunctional. The question that needs to be solved if this is poor service on you provider's part, or an interruption in the path between you and the game's servers (which are located near Montreal I believe). You might want to try doing a traceroute (https://kb.intermedia.net/article/682) during your problem time, or you might want to try a VPN service (even a free service).

 

Do you have a separate data plan for your cell phone which includes any tethering or hot spot data? You might try running your computer off the cell phone for a few minutes just for comparison. It's not like this game actually uses a lot of data - it worked fine when I had 1 MBps DSL.