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Slow Connection / World Not Loading on Server

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Symptoms

  • Your internet connection is generally stable and fast.
    • Example: You can watch Youtube videos just fine
  • Your singleplayer world loads fine and you can play in singleplayer
  • Connecting to a server / friend is very slow and the world doesn’t load
    • Your friend may be able to see you move but you can’t do anything
  • You are on Windows

Problem

Some network devices such as Intel & Realtek have rare driver issues. The protocol the game is using (QUIC), is very modern and not always fully supported on all computers.

This is a known problem and will most likely not see a driver update. It is still affecting modern platforms.

It also affects booths Wi-Fi and Ethernet connections.

Confirmation:

You can confirm that this issue affects you, by connecting an Ethernet USB dongle to your computer and attempting to connect through that. If the problem is fixed, you should follow the solutions.

Solution

After each solution, please verify if that fixes your problem. You may not need to make all changes described here.

Step 1:

  • Open the Start Menu and type “View network connections”
  • Select the Control Panel link below

Step 2:

  • Select the network connection responsible for your internet connection
  • Right-click and select “Properties”
  • Select “Configure”

Solution 1:

  • Select “Priority & VLAN” and select “Priority & VLAN Disabled”
  • Click “Ok” and wait for your internet connection to be restored
  • Attempt to connect to the server again

Solution 2:

  • Select “Recv. Segment Coalescing (IPv4)” and select “Disabled”
  • Select “Recv. Segment Coalescing (IPv6)” and select “Disabled”
  • Click “Ok” and wait for your internet connection to be restored
  • Attempt to connect to the server again

Solution 3:

  • Select “Advanced EEE” and select “Disabled”
  • Select “ARP Offload” and select “Disabled”
  • Select “Energy-Efficient Ethernet” and select “Disabled”
  • Select “Flow Control” and select “Disabled”
  • Select “Green Ethernet” and select “Disabled”
  • Click “Ok” and wait for your internet connection to be restored
  • Attempt to connect to the server again

Solution 4:

If the above solutions have not worked, we will have to throw the entire book at it. This is a quite invasive change and may be difficult to reverse without reinstalling the driver due to not persisting the default values.

These values were sourced from here Reddit: https://old.reddit.com/r/buildapc/comments/tft3u0/is_realtek_25gbe_lan_issue_fixed/k9evtu0/ 

  1. Advanced EEE - Disabled
  2. ARP Offload - Disabled
  3. EEE Max Support Speed - 1.0 Gbps Full Duplex
  4. Energy-Efficient Ethemet - Disabled
  5. Flow Control - Disabled
  6. Gigabit Lite - Disabled
  7. Green Ethemet - Disabled
  8. Interrupt Moderation - Disabled
  9. IPv4 Checksum Offload - Rx & Tx Enabled
  10. Jumbo Frame - Disabled
  11. Large Send Offload v2 (IPv4) - Disabled
  12. Large Send Offload v2 (IPv6) - Disabled
  13. Maximum Number of RSS Queues - 4 Queues
  14. Network Address - Not Present
  15. NS Offload - Disabled
  16. Power Saving Mode - Disabled
  17. Priority & VLAN - Disabled
  18. Receive Buffers - 512
  19. Receive Side Scaling - Enabled
  20. Shutdown Wake-On-Lan - Disabled
  21. Speed & Duplex - Auto
  22. TCP Checksum Offload (IPv4) - Disabled
  23. TCP Checksum Offload (IPv6) - Disabled
  24. Transmit Buffers - 1024 (/2048)
  25. UDP Checksum Offload (IPv4) - Disabled
  26. UDP Checksum Offload (IPv6) - Disabled
  27. VLAN ID - 0
  28. Wake on Magic Packet - Disabled
  29. Wake on magic packet when system is in the S0ix power state - Disabled
  30. Wake on pattern match - Disabled
  31. WOL & Shutdown Link Speed - Not Speed Down

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