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Steam Remote Play SLOW / stutters / buffers when In-Home Streaming - it connects via Relay and not Direct (no SteamLink)
When Valve released Remote Play, it seems there's a bug where multiple network adapters (from VPNs, virtual machines, etc.) can cause direct connections to fallback to relays too greedily. You need to ...
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Is it possible to play ultra graphics games online where the actual graphics computing is happening in remote location?
While streaming video is no problem (doesn't matter if you're watching YouTube or game feed), control latency is. Input from your controls will have to travel to remote location and then back with ...
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How can I play Minecraft through a SOCKS5 proxy server on Linux?
Your command is incorrect; when you enter a command you do not keep the brackets.
Instead of:
-DsocksProxyHost=[127.0.0.1] -DsocksProxyPort=[2078] -Djava.net.socks.username=[] -Djava.net.socks....
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Overwatch PNG, RTT and IND: How they affect gameplay experience
https://eu.battle.net/support/en/article/7779
Check under performance information.
PNG: Ping -- the time it takes for packet to be sent to the server and back.
RTT: Round Trip (Delay) Time -- ...
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Why does the Nintendo Switch only work with USB-LAN Adapters with the AX88179 chipset?
The data is indeed the same, but it's packaged in a different way.
The adapters do not simply convert USB signals to Ethernet signals, and the computer cannot simply start sending Ethernet frames ...
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How to resolve Wii U networking dysfunction?
Found the solution. Apparently the Wii U is extremely sensitive to any "invisible" proxy services on your router or gateway server.
Someone had actually turned on an invisible proxy server on the ...
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Is it still possible to play AOE2: The Age of Kings over a LAN?
I played the old version of AOE II with expansion for a long time over lan, including Windows 10. The only problems I ever had starting the game (ranging from Windows XP to Windows 10) was ...
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Why does ping get higher if the server is in a different region?
Network latency (sometimes called ping, after a tool used to measure it) can be affected by many things, but a big one is distance. This is why stock brokers get offices as close to the exchange as ...
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Is it still possible to play AOE2: The Age of Kings over a LAN?
If you mean the old Windows 9x game, then... kind-of....
It uses an older style of LAN networking that is not used these days (I think it is IPX), and you would have difficulty installing and setting ...
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Can't connect to Steam servers and other gaming servers on Windows 10
Your ISP is likely transitioning to IPv6 using "IPv6 Dual-Stack Lite" or similar. In this method:
When a user’s device sends an IPv4 packet to an external destination, DS-Lite encapsulates the ...
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How to trick WoW to play from network drive / NAS?
there is a way in windows to run wow but its clunky. you can go into disk management and create a virtual hard drive on the NAS and put wow in it. after wow is on the virtual hard drive you can mount ...
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What are the required outbound IPs and ports on a spigot server?
For any Minecraft Server (including custom ones such as Spigot, Sponge and Bukkit/CraftBukkit), these are the only ports and addresses that you require in and out-bound traffic allowed to:
Port 25565 ...
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Cannot connect to my Minecraft Java Edition Server: java.net.connectexception: Connection refused: no further information
Client and Server, either or both of them are not in the network.
Yes it's possible that they are not connected to LAN or internet or any other network, in that case, Java will throw
"java.net....
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Minecraft Java 1.17.1 Server Times Out Players Who Join Second or Teleport
Sounds like the server has a terrible uplink (probably less than 5Mbps), this would explain why the server operator doesn't get kicked while others do.
A bit more technical explanation: the default ...
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PS4 drastic connection speed drop recently
I used to work for an ISP and there are some things that I can suggest assuming that you did not change anything yourself:
- for best connection never use Wifi
- do a speedtest from a wired machine ...
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How much data does SimCity transfer?
After the offline update in March of 2014 it is possible to play Simcity 2013 in offline mode. When the game is played in this state the online features of the game such as inter-city trading or ...
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Do paused downloads still have an impact on Internet or Wifi speed?
No, paused downloads should not affect your Wifi.
However, note that downloads are not the only thing that will cause the Xbox One to use the internet. For example:
The Xbox may check for updates ...
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How to play League of Legends when Cloud Flare is blacklisting your IP?
You can connect to a VPN, which will display another IP instead of your own. Your ping will probably become slightly higher depending on how far away the VPN server is. I'd recommend Mudfish for ...
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Is a (Dedicated) 4mbps line good enough for PS4?
Googling a bit regarding those games I've found that for example, Fortnite needs at least 3 Mbps download speed and 1 Mbps upload, but the best results come around 10 Mbps (more info), I believe that ...
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How do I connect to a server using IPv6 in Minecraft?
There's currently no way to do this in unmodded (vanilla) Minecraft. I'd suggest buying a domain and using something like Dreamhost DNS to route the domain or a subdomain to the IP.
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How do I connect to a server using IPv6 in Minecraft?
Use the raw IPv6 address without the brackets (example: ::1) and it should work.
I have been using this technique on Minecraft 1.8.9 and 1.15.2 for one year to connect to Minecraft servers that ...
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How do I connect to a server using IPv6 in Minecraft?
Both IPv6 and [IPv6]:port formats should work when entering IP addresses
If you share from a local network, make sure you share the correct address (the machine should have a public IPv6 address. Do ...
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Is there any benefit to having "NAT Type 1" (aka no NAT and publicly-routable IP) on a PlayStation?
A conclusive answer... probably not known except to developers for the PS4. However...
NAT punch through is basically a solved problem now a days. You most like will never encounter a problem with ...
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Warframe: Strict NAT Detected
did you tried to disable "Enable UPnP" and "Enable NAT-PMP"?
These two Services tries to tell your Router Ports to Forward to your Machine.
If you manually set your Router to forward these ports to ...
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Ping spikes when starting a livestream (Discord/Twitch)
While the advice below still holds...
The information you have recently provided, provided that it was obtained while the only devices connected to the internet were the speed-testing computer and the ...
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Problems with setting up my minecraft server via external IP
There are multiple thing to know and to check according your internet config.
I give you a short checklist:
Check on your local PC, that you server is running on the port you expect (Simpli try to ...
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Find out why I am getting network-Wifi Lag on TF2?
Does it happen on different servers, official and community? If you can, try playing on the same network and server, but on different device and consider reinstalling your Wi-Fi drivers and updating ...
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How do I transfer files from my Steam Deck to a PC without leaving gaming mode?
If you don't mind using terminal, you can spin up ssh server on Steam Deck and access it with any of dozens compatible tools, for example, command line scp which is now available even on Windows.
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Minecraft doesn't launch with the Ultrasurf proxy?
I used something called Proxifier to force redirect all traffic through Ultrasurf, which just happens to be an HTTPS proxy 127.0.0.1:9666. It also doesn't require admin if you use the portable version....
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Fixing RotMG Socket-Server Security: Error #2048
It seems that this error message is somewhat generic, where the client is complaining that it cannot connect to the servers. There are various situations where that may be the case. One of them (as ...
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