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Hey guys!
I have been playing StarCraft II since release, and I had been playing on Wi-Fi until recently. About a month ago I purchased this: http://www.amazon.com/TP-LINK-TL-PA4010KIT-Powerline-Adapter-Starter/dp/B00AWRUICG, so internet comes through the grid with cable using Powerline adapters. Right after the purchase, I have experienced a huge improvement in the smoothness of the gameplay. However, in the last week or two I experienced the lag coming back similar to the one I had been having using Wi-Fi.
I even tested the quality of my internet connecting my computer to the cable modem directly. It showed 9 ms ping on speedtest, and 11 ms on pingtest, however ingame I experienced spikes of up to 1 seconds measuring through ingame commands, and the game feels like it was continuously stuttering. What is interesting is that using Alt+Ctrl+F the game didn't spot any spikes at all.
I do not think it is due to FPS lag at all, since I have the following:
- Intel i5-2500 @ 3.3 GHz
- 8 GB RAM
- NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 Ti
TLDR: I am experiencing continuous lags, even though my ping seems very good (about 10 ms) both on speedtest and pingtest, and it doesn't show any network spikes ingame. I am clueless about what I should do, but the lag is totally destroying the game for me as I'm pretty much a tryhard, aiming for top 100 GM (currently ~150) and I feel like losing a ton of games due to this issue.
P.S. I am including a picture which was taken while connecting my PC with Powerline, through the grid.
http://imgur.com/Cbte4PY
I would appreciate any advice you guys would have for me. Have a nice day! 
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China6330 Posts
I used the exact same powerline adapter for the last year and I can definitely say they are not as stable as a traditional router, had the same kind of problems, even more severe than yours, to the point of dropping me out of the game, the issue goes away after I switched to an ASUS router.
For powerline adapters there are numerous factors to negatively affect its performance like power grid distance, quality of the power cables or the complexity of the grid, it performs better to great if you are on an isolated grid like a house, but if you are living in an apartment where the power grid runs through multiple rooms and homes the complexity might be too hard for the signals to handle.
TL;DR: if you want to play competitively, play on wired or a 5GHz 802.11ac router.
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I am actually experiencing the same type of problem as you and it also started maybe a week and a half ago. I have played other games as well like League and CS:GO and those games are fine, it seems to be a SC2 exclusive spike.
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Thanks for your reply. Unfortunately, playing on wired would require drilling a wall, so I would like to avoid that if possible.
There are two things I don't get, though.
1) The performance has decreased since the purchase of the powerline adapters. It works well for a week or two, than becomes almost unplayable, but the condition (whether good or bad) remains stable for a couple of days at least.
2) This condition has always been the same, whether on powerline or LAN, no difference between the two, indicating that drilling the wall wouldn't actually help fixing this.
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@Jamileon
It started about one and half a week ago for me too. Could it be the Blizzard server plus me being supersensitive to lag? :/
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I've experienced same lag as OP. LIke identical, my rig:
9370 Vishera 4.4 Ghz octacore AMD
Nvidia ASUS GTX 660
8 Gig of high performance RAM
Also this is not wireless I'm directly wired into my router with a CAT 6 Cable...
I have no lag spike but the actions that I do are delayed significantly from when they are actually translated like the server response is considerably delayed.
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I am really curious about whether this is a specific issue, or one that applies to every player. I am looking forward to more approvements of this, so we can compare our experiences and draw a conclusion that can help fixing this.
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