Recently i have returned to playing War Thunder (WT), after quite a while not playing, and although i have had my Plusnet fiber connection for over a year now, I think this is the first time i have played over Plusnet, and my first bit of online gaming for quite a while (been playing Single player in a lot of things)
War Thunder has a continual on screen display of FPS, Ping and Packet Loss, so these can be monitored easily during play.
Since returning to WT i have had problems with 'warping' regularly during play. I look down at the on screen Packet Loss monitor and it has turned red and is reporting anything from 20 to 80%!
This soon clears returning to 0 or 1, but can hapen every few minutes.
I have used PingPlotter to trace the route to the EU server and the results are a little odd with hop 9 having 100% Packet loss, no IP, no DNSname, nothing. So i have no idea whos net work it belongs to but it is after a BT router and before a LeaseWeb router.
Anyway, i feel that the problem actually lies earlier on in the trace with 2 IPs of 172.17.5.30 and 172.17.11.2.
These routers have no DNSname and WHOIS does not return any information (on ping.eu), but a plusnet router comes after these 2 hops so i believe it is still within the plusnet network.
Between these 2 routers the first one seems to occasionally ping higher and the second one looses packets.
After 68 traces i had 8% PL on 172.17.11.2
I have read a few other threads recent problems with plusnet and wondered if this was similar to what other people had experienced, and most importantly what to do now? Call tech support? Email them?.. where is the email option?
The service is fantastic in all othe regards. My download and upload speeds good. But this is the first time that i have really tested the packetloss side of things.
Would love to hear any help or advice anyone may have. Thanks.
Riot.
