I run Comcast Business, work from home, and never have an issue running the internet from my house. I don't have cable and run several Apple TV's and Roku devices to stream all of my media (all of which I do sparingly if at all while gaming).
However, my network connection is deemed "unstable" by Bungie and you've blocked me from SRL for a week?! This is absolutely ridiculous and stands on no ground.
I took ONE year off from this game, returned, and committed myself to playing and achieving all the rewards again. I loved SRL last year and now I'm unable to participate.
I have all the data to show you that you're wrong and that my connection IS stable. More importantly, considering this - I'm done playing this game indefinitely if this is how Bungie is going to treat its players. I'm sure there's some legalise that I agreed to, accepting these terms but that doesn't change the ethical view on this case.
As a valid player of the community, I'm disappointed.
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16 RepliesEdited by RAIST5150: 12/15/2016 12:10:15 AMLast night I tracked latency spikes over 250ms to a Comcast player in Missouri from South Carolina through Atlanta. There wasn't any packet loss, but in a 25 count ping, there were about 8 that spiked over 200ms against numbers in the 50's and 60's for the same region being routed differently.. That is something people need to understand...not everyone is going to be connecting to every host via the same areas/routes you are testing against, and those hosts can be scattered all over the map. Latency to Arkansas will not necessarily be the same as to Southern California, Canada, the Great Lakes, or any of the 13+ other systems you need to contact for 6v6 instances (11 players, 2 separate Bungie Data Centers, and your console's networks). So you can't look at a localized snapshot and say your internet is good....the internet is a network of interconnected networks that scatter the globe. You don't just connect directly to any one address...you can hop across a dozen or more different networks to get there, some of which are managed by different ISP's. Your ISP is responsible for establishing and maintaining those routing arrangements. This falls under purview of their Tier3 team...you usually don't get in touch with them unless you are escalated from a lower tier or push to be put in contact with them directly. May want to check out your ISP's page over at downdetector.com: [Url=http://downdetector.com/status/comcast-xfinity]Direct link to Comcast[/URL] Comcast is consistently in the top of their [URL=http://downdetector.com/top10/] Top 10 List[/URL] for reported problems. They also track all kinds of services on their [URL=http://downdetector.com/companies]Companies[/URL] page. There is even a page for Destiny. There are links to companion sites in the footer for other regions like aussieoutages.com and such. [b]EDIT:[/b][i]just saw this in the comments section at that site:[/i] [quote]This is now almost in every Major city. Comcast Business as well as Residential Connections are both going down or being extremely slow, Dial Up connection slow. Houston, San Francisco, Salt Lake City, Chicago, Atlanta, Washington D.C, Boston MS, New York .... Every time you ask them they say it a local issue and that its getting worked on... Well when all the major city's are having it its not a "local" issue its now nation wide Issue with both residents and Business. They are going to lose a lot of businesses and clients cause of this, it's better to say whats going on than to hide it. Every time they maintenance a line or are working on upgrades they never send out an email stating repairs or downtime possibilities....[/quote] [i]Says it went up an hour ago, which would be about 6pm Eastern time. Just saying, where there's smoke....[/i]