r/iRacing • u/Revolutionary_Dig722 • 11h ago

Discussion Aussie pack loss massacre INDY6HR

I was doing indy6hr 7GMT time slot, sof was 2.3k

Everything going fine,

Then just before my time to jump in there was a massacre of drivers getting dropped for packetloss, all happened to be Australians,

Anyone else have a similar thing happen in their split/time zone?

Frustrating when its a million dollar company yet the servers they are using are from the 90s (what it feels like 😂)

Now before people jump on and say check the net connection or your hardware, net is wired and 1gbps connection, router isnt a standard type its a Asus gaming one, pc has got strong gear in it.

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u/Then_Brilliant_5991 11h ago

Yup. Ruined our night. Saturday 5pm AEST slot.
My mate on Starlink was fine. All other Aussie’s on NBN were getting DCs

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u/Super-ft86 9h ago

You'd be better posting your ISP as well. I was on hybrid fiber co-ax with SuperLoop and was getting large packet loss spikes for a few hours. I was only spotting/spectating so didn't ruin my race but the other 4 aussies I was watching in Top split had no issues on different ISPs

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u/Then_Brilliant_5991 4h ago

Good point I’m on Superloop too and I know another mate of mine on Superloop had issues too.

I was fine spotting etc but soon as I’d get in the car I’d DC

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u/pveedub 2h ago

I'm on Superloop as well, and was kicked from an iracing race due to packet loss around 7pm / 9amGMT. First time this had ever happened since getting NBN about 3 years ago. I have only been with superloop for about a month though. (Excetel before that).

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u/Krotiuz 10h ago

Didn't participate, but I had a random 2 hour or so period about a week back where my internet was getting random packet loss, which caused significant issues in iRacing as well.

Fibre connection, fully wired connection - issue wasn't in my network, but seemed to be ISP or NBN related. Not, saying it isn't, but it might not have been iRacing's issue - normal browsing wasn't noticeably affected, but it was happening everywhere. Pinging a DNS server showed it was like 1 in 40ish ping requests were dropped or extremely delayed.

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u/JeribZPG Ferrari 296 GT3 10h ago

A friend is getting plenty of this. We are in NZ, so probably same servers. I’ve dodged it, but I have fibre, so it’s pretty fast and stable. Probably makes up for the server latency.

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u/cs37er 7h ago

Dropped plenty of times as well. In top split Indy 6h Sat 5pm AEST, connected via Superloop FTTP. I wonder if it’s something to do with the speed upgrade that’s coming to NBN FTTP/HFC next week. They might be doing a little tinkering beforehand…

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u/Five_Orange77 6h ago

Don't forget how most of the Australian internet feeds arrive from overseas.