Warzone runs fine for a while and then I’ll get the orange packet burst icon, micro-stutters, shots that feel delayed, etc. It gets especially noticeable during fights.
I’m playing from my bedroom. Router is in the living room with a couple walls between us.
The confusing part is my speed test from the bedroom is usually around 280–320 Mbps, so I kept assuming my WiFi was fine and the game/server was the problem.
Can WiFi still be bad even with speeds like that?
Absolutely. 300 Mbps just tells you that you can move a lot of data. Games don’t need a ton of bandwidth. They need the connection to be consistent. You can have 300 Mbps and still get packet loss or jitter every few seconds, which feels awful in a shooter.
@Dr.RichardBurke Okay, was basically treating the speed test as “WiFi passed, blame Activision”.
@aim.locked Yeah, that’s the trap. A speed test can look gorgeous while your latency graph is having a seizure.
I’d check the wireless side from the actual room before blaming the game. Run a WiFi analyzer like NetSpot on a laptop and look at the 5 GHz signal plus the channel situation where you’re playing. Strong throughput doesn’t necessarily mean the radio link is clean. If your signal is marginal or you’ve got strong neighboring networks overlapping the same part of the band, you can still get the kind of little latency spikes that gaming hates.
@Alacran_X_00 So I should care more about the signal/channel situation than just the Mbps number?
@aim.locked For this problem, yeah. Mbps is still useful, but it isn’t the whole story. I’d want to know whether the connection stays stable, especially right where the PC/console actually sits.
run Ethernet to the bedroom for one evening. Doesn’t need to be pretty. Just throw a long cable down the hallway. If packet burst basically disappears while wired, you’ve got pretty strong evidence the problem is somewhere in the WiFi path.