My coworker, who has last-mile fiber, GB internet, and a beefy gaming system, was having bad CS gameplay.
The problem ended up being….his $300 "gaming router" causing jitter.
If you have a nice router with fancy "QoS" or "security" features….try turning those off.
https://x.com/ZPostFacto/status/1842648275981328874
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Welp i connect my pc directly to the wall port so nothing i can do about that for my insane jitters
Anything that interacts with the packet in transit will add latency.
IPS/IDS, Inspection, QoS, Traffic Shaping.
If possible, build a rule specifically calling out CS2 traffic in your router/firewall and disable all additional services.
Gaming Routers are a gimmick. They cannot influence upstream routing.
Thats great, but why this was not an issue before the armory pass patch?
Why is this not an issue with other online games like Valorant?
I’d rather not turn off the security features of my router. There has to be an issue in the game because this is the only game I have trouble with.
This is weapons grade denial at this point. If something like that would have caused issues for other titles, it would have been squashed out a long time ago, and now you’re supposed to believe that it’s everyone else’s fault specifically their game can’t play nicely with common routers? Give me a break.
Are you kidding me? The router? NO OTHER GAME I HAVE TO TINKER WITH MY ROUTER LMFAO. I JUST LOVE HOW THIS GAME WAS LABELED AS YOU DONT NEED TO DO A BYNCH OF SHIT TO OPITMIZE THE GAME LIKE IN CSGO ANYMORE BUT IT SEEMS LIKE YOU STILL HAVE TO AND MORE LOL! CAPS LOCKING CUZ THIS SHIT IS UNBELIEVABLY SAD
Default google fiber router, no weird settings – pinging to the SDR nets no packetloss or spikes. Specfically only happens in cs2 since the update. Can literally ping any server 100,000 times and not get a single dropped packet. There is no way that it is not the game.
he should not be saying to disable router security features without specifying what he means by that.