Hi Prozac, I hope I can also provide some helpful information. I have to agree with Dancorp on this, port forwarding may not resolve issues relating to bandwidth or network prioritisation. That is wh...
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Hi Prozac, I hope I can also provide some helpful information. I have to agree with Dancorp on this, port forwarding may not resolve issues relating to bandwidth or network prioritisation. That is what QoS does. Just as an example, I have 550mbit down and 50mbit up at an avg ping of approx 9ms. If I disable my QoS and someone starts streaming movies or starts downloads, I see lags and frame drops on Stadia as well, as the Stadia connection/stream will not have priority. With QoS not a single frame drop regardless of how many device are online and active in my home network. In contrast to a video/audio stream from Youtube, Netflix etc Stadia obviously cannot use any buffering technique as this would add several seconds of delay. Therefore any packet delay has direct impact on stream quality and input latency. Also, don't underestimate the number of devices you have on your home network, usually it is much more than people expect as most will only consider devices they use frequently and heavily i.e. Pc, Laptop, Console but there are definitely more than they think ie. all smart phones, TV, laptop, smart home stuff, etc Any of those can have app or firmware updates which may cause lag spikes while gaming on any platform. The best option will be check your router for basic/automated QoS functionality. Best case option is: you can give your Stadia device (CCU, PC, phone) highest priority. That would ensure that traffic from those devices will always handled first. If you dont have any QoS settings and don't want to buy a new router, you could try following workaround which could solve or at least improve your issues: determine your maximum up and down bandwidth, and limit your router to 80% of that maximum. That will disable any device from maxing out your total bandwidth and may give you some headspace to avoid bottlenecking of your internet connection. Also, when you said "at night times it was better" the question is also, was it better because everyone else in your house was in bed and therefore you had no other traffic on your home network, or your neighbours (eg. same house, same street/area) were offline too, reducing the load on your ISP. ISPs nowadays tend to overbook their network nodes. That has been an issue in high-dense residential areas for some time and was further impacted due to Covid-19 and many more people working from home. Sorry for the long post, I hope this is helpful somehow.