Host gets lag

[desertjedi]

A recent development for me and a gaming friend is that whomever hosts gets lag. Whenever I host, I get a prompt saying that the other guy should host. But I try hosting anyway. When I do, I freeze about every 3-4 seconds. When my mate hosts, he gets some lag but not as bad as I do. This is a fairly recent development. We never had lag issues before.

[AmperCamper]

Hey! Some clarifying questions:

1. You guys are inviting one another into a lobby, and then starting the mission? Or, are you matchmaking into a game afterwards?
2. What are you experiencing in the game, specifically?

[desertjedi]

We just invite each other into the lobby as this is a good friend that I always play with.

All I can say is that the game freezes for about a half to one second and then unfreezes. This happens quite often. Sometimes many times every minute. We call it "lag" but we have no idea if this is a networking issue or not. We have zero trouble with other games that we play co-op.

Yesterday, my friend hosted so I expected no lag on my end but I got a little bit. It was much less than when I hosted. I always get the message "It would be better if your friend hosted." Can you tell me what that means? Is the game testing bandwidth or ping? Does if prefer Canadians?

[desertjedi]

UPDATE: It would seem that the lag was on my end. I was suffering from severely high latency issues ("bufferbloat"). I enabled QoS on my router and made my PC highest priority and updated my router's firmware. My latency both up and down dropped dramatically!

I recommend gamers go to speed.cloudflare.com and https://www.waveform.com/tools/bufferbloat to get a feel as to how latency may be affecting their gaming.

I haven't had a chance to play Six Days with my much improved latency. If I don't post back, it means my lag is no longer a factor.

[AmperCamper]

UPDATE: It would seem that the lag was on my end. I was suffering from severely high latency issues ("bufferbloat"). I enabled QoS on my router and made my PC highest priority and updated my router's firmware. My latency both up and down dropped dramatically!

I recommend gamers go to speed.cloudflare.com and https://www.waveform.com/tools/bufferbloat to get a feel as to how latency may be affecting their gaming.

I haven't had a chance to play Six Days with my much improved latency. If I don't post back, it means my lag is no longer a factor.

Thanks for the update on this! Hope to hear back (or not).

[desertjedi]

All the lag completely disappeared after tweaking my router!