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GBrankNoobdog170
4 years ago
Hi, my wifi card has been acting up recently and I have ordered a new one for my PC, but at the moment I am stuck with what I have. I have extremely bad ping in any application due to the wifi problem, but when I connect the phone to the PC(even on the same wifi) I get much better and stable ping.

Zero-k is the only application which has any problems, it works over the wifi card but I get bad desync problems every few seconds. However when I connect my phone I get no connection whatsoever on Zero-k, but I can browse youtube, listen to spotify, etc.

My PC stats are just in case zero-k doesn't like any of this:
RTX 2060
Ryzen 3700
32GB Ram
1TB 860 evo

Does anyone know why Zero-k doesn't work over my phone? It appears as a normal wired connection to the PC so I am quite confused.
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EErankAdminAnarchid
4 years ago
This sounds really weird because i've played quite a few games over wifi hotspot with no problems.

I would guess that there is something really weird with your setup. Have you tried diagnosing it for packet drop etc?
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GBrankNoobdog170
4 years ago
Hi,

I am not sure how to do that within Zero-k, but it would have to be nearly 100% because it just starts trying to catch up and never does until I switch back to my desktop wifi card. But, I just joined a different match and it works, I guess that means it is something to do with the hosting settings? When I switch back it breaks again.

If you want any logs or anything just tell me where I can get them and i'll post them
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ILrankrollmops
4 years ago
When you using your phone as a hotspot, you most probably create so called "double NAT" situation.

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This double NAT scenario won't cause problems for basic tasks like browsing the internet, but it can cause problems when you are <...> doing peer-to-peer online gaming (which often uses the UDP protocol and does some funny firewall stuff called “UDP hole-punching”).

https://openwrt.org/docs/guide-user/network/switch_router_gateway_and_nat



This problem usually appears when one has a a router connected to ISP modem, when by default both will provide DHCP service and doing NAT. The solution will be to turn the ISP modem to bridge-only mode.

In your situation, since I'm not aware of a way to turn a smartphone into bridge mode, I think the easiest solution will be to buy simple WiFi dongle for your computer.
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