Server, wifi or console lag?

[Shawn.Bear2020]

A long debate is going on in a DayZ gaming FB group page, about lagging issues.

 

The debate, is if, the lag is because of the server, your home wifi speeds, or the inability of a console to keep up, such as an Xbox one S.

 

I personally believe that it can be a bit of all, but mostly it's because of the server. 

 

As I have visited many different servers, and not all have lagging issues. However, I have been on some servers where everything was running great, but the moment I get near a base, built by a, or several other players, it became laggy. And sometimes, downright unplayable. 

 

And I have visited a couple servers that were so laggy, that you couldn't even move from the time you spawned. 

 

What do you think it might be? Or do you think it's mostly one thing. 

 

Please keep in mind, some people can't afford expensive gaming desktops or laptops. And some people don't play enough to justify buying an expensive desktop or laptop. 

 

And last two things, how many of you like DayZ, and play it a lot more than other games, and do you think duplicating is cheating? 

[KnoT]

Network connection speed does not rly matter in online gaming but peering and packet loss do, WIFI is notoriously bad for any gaming due to many reasons but mosty packet loss.

 

In this case its impossible to say what is causing "lagging" as you didn't do any testing on your own so my bet is simply WIFI begin shit as usual.

 

And if you are playing on old Xbox One then that can be easily to slow for the game even tho its prty well optimized now (as the cut almost everything hardware demanding from the game).

[BobVonBob]

It really depends on the game and what type of lag.

 

FPS lag is the fault of the hardware (or games that tie frame updates to network updates, but they're rare and bad).

 

Network lag is either the fault of the server and/or the fault of the network connection. If the server gets overloaded it's going to lag, but it's usually fairly obvious when that is the problem. Usually lag is the fault of being far away from the server/having a bad route to the server. WiFi also tends to add some extra time to that round trip over direct wiring, but it's not nearly as much as it once was.

 

As for the last two things, no I don't care for DayZ, and duplicating is obviously cheating.

[LogicalDrm]

-> Moved to Networking