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Edited by Mr Pillow: 10/17/2017 6:41:54 PM
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You need a quality (low latency, not high speed) connection to play Destiny. Other games just shovel a little data back and forth. Destiny is pretty much all processing online. There are, in reality, a small percentage of people talking about the issues - but the majority are fine. If it was an actual server side issue then it would affect everyone; but it doesn't. Wifi is a big no-no for quality gaming (or anything critical) to start with. It is inherently prone to disconnections and interruptions by literally thousand s of different criteria; and it doesn't always recover - it sometimes switches channels on you and that alone is enough to turf (or hiccup) your connection. That is simply how it works - it was never designed to be a reliable connection, but rather a convenience connection. If you live in a condo or apt complex it is compounded exponentially by the fact you have wifi interference all around you pretty much automatically. It may not be your setup either - it could be something up with your ISPs setup, it could be an issue on any one of 10-20 other routing systems it passes through, or it could be something like the fact that not all routers play well with Windows, or XBox, or PS. There are ways to figure out the issue, and maybe there is a way to counteract it. But it comes down to the fact it isn't at Bungie's ed 99% of the time, and when I actually do some in-depth testing with people, we usually find out where the problem lies ... like the fact they have an 80ms latency at the halfway point already, or they have their firewalls on the router set too high, or there is a bottleneck in Tuscon that nobody can do a thing about until they clear it up. There are tons of little things you need to check, and it may take you a week or two to actually figure it all out, but that's the way the internet works - it's not a s perfect as people want to think and you actually have to do some fine tuning and investigation at your own end. Many applications can accommodate small-medium data interruptions, but games with high data processing expectations cannot. Your connection sucks.
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