So for the past couple months I have been noticing a lot of lag on the L4D2 servers and it's getting very frustrating. High ping is not a big deal, I could play with 200 ping(if it was consistent).. the problem is that I should have around 50-70 ping and sometimes I do, but most of the time it's spiking up to over 100. You might be thinking "100 ping, big deal", but like I said it's different when it is spiking. I experience rubber banding a lot and it makes simple movements impossible in the game. I'm not here just to whine about it, rather to discuss what the problem is and if there is a possible solution. Does anyone else experience lag spike like this? I've tried everything I can think of at this point. I've verified game cache, reinstalled the game, upgraded PC'S, messed with NAT type(it's Open now), reset my modem and router a few times and done speed tests to ensure it's not my internet.
Does anybody have an idea what the problem could be? I really doubt I'm being DDOS'd as it has been happening for over a month now and nobody would waste their time doing that. Could I just have a bad route to the server or something? I don't know how it all works. Or is it something on the host's end?
And no, it's not just my connection. I actually have decent internet, almost always 100 down and 20 up with around 10 ping according to speed tests.
So what could this be then? Any input would be appreciated. Thanks -Logan