As title says, since Season of Seraph, it appears over multiple ISP networks in the UK I have been having non stop error codes(Weasel, Anteater etc), disconnects and boots to orbit/title screen or outright crash to desktop.
Issue started since Bungie implemented these arrays that were installed to protect against DDoS.
-1st network was on PlusNet, with a very low download and upload rate but I experienced no issues with other games online and had been playing fine on Destiny roughly 6 months prior to the array implementation in Season of the Seraph.
-2nd network was on Virgin media with a generous 1GB line. Again no other issues with other games that have both Peer to Peer and dedicated server setup.
-3rd network and current on HyperOptic, similar 1GB line but symmetrical on both download and upload.
I have been sifting through online forums and other forms of online content to get any form of fix for a year and a half.
On each network I have enabled and setup port forwarding and still experience severe disconnect issues, despite advice from Bungie help posts and confirming NAT type has gone from moderate to open.
I have come across a few posts over time suggesting the use of VPN. Upon testing this suggestion it appears that this does sort of patch the issue with disconnects but it is also not a solution to the problem, but more a plaster on the symptom. It also degrades the experience as you're more susceptible to lag. Not to mention the personal COST.
I work in IT so I have troubleshot my device as much as I can and have found no fault with hardware and can confirm this definitely isn't affecting other online games, even when in 128+ player servers.
I have reinstalled drivers, updated mobo and anything that might directly affect networking, among many other things.
Ping and jitter is very rare on the most recent 1GB networks.
I honestly don't want to be spending more of my free time doing what I do for work and getting nowhere due to lack of information from Bungie or action on poor infrastructure that Bungie have admitted to in the past.
As you can understand, this is seriously getting frustrating and I'm also now paying regularly for a fix that isn't even 100% as I still get DC 'ed on the VPN. Not to mention; recently having to pay extra, monthly, for a static IP to enable port-forwarding on my most recent network with HyperOptic.
Is there any way we can get up to date information on Bungie servers, so I can at least run a trace test? This is so I can find out if there is something in-between affecting my device from communicating with Bungie servers or if it's Bungie's infrastructure.
https://ipinfo.io/AS394073
Info here seems potentially outdated, can we confirm this?
https://pingserverstatus.com/destiny2.php
Pings on this site seem to be 1 - 2 ms across the board
https://packetlosstest.com/
0% packet loss
Is there anything else I can try setting up to resolve this other than just "port-forwarding"?
On a side note, in-between moving properties I had to hotspot on my mobile with EE recently - obviously I am unable to manage port forwarding through a mobile device hotspot and also the NAT type was set to strict/closed. However, despite all of this, I experienced very little to no disconnects but obviously experience lag.
Setup:
OS: Win 11
CPU: AMD 5950x
GPU: AMD RX 6900 XT
Mobo: MSI MEG X570 UNIFY
SSD1(with OS):THNSN5256GPUK NVMe TOSHIBA 256GB
Capacity: 239 GB
System disk: Yes
Page file: Yes
Type: SSD(m.2)
SDD2(with D2 on): ADATA SX8200PNP
Capacity:954 GB
System disk: No
Page file: No
Type: SSD(M.2)
Ethernet: Realtek PCIe 2.5GbE Family Controller (Always used wired over Wi-Fi apart from when I needed to use hotspot)
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Is this just going to be ignored? No suggestions etc?