OK, so I may have a solution! Just to let everyone who reads this post know I am in no part or affiliated with the program that I am going to recommend so don't take this the wrong way. I've been dealing with constant packet loss for months now and almost gave up on solutions after upgrading to cox gigablast internet and spending a fortune on my modem/router combination (with no fix).
Tonight I decided to test out a program called Speedify. It has a free trial so I figured what the hey. Played two games and had ZERO PACKET LOSS! I almost thought it was to good to be true, so I closed out the program and tried again, no packet loss at first but after about 3 minutes it started and got up to its normal 5-10% consistent. I played the game through and it never went away (I was thinking todays patch may have been the fix). Opened the program up and ZERO PACKET LOSS AGAIN!!!!
The only reason Im posting this is because I, like many of you have been dealing with this and let me tell you its worth a try, FREE TRIAL.
I would like someone to do a test of this or maybe a few people and post how it works for them (I will be checking the forum daily as I have been). Please test the packet loss in fortnite BEFORE you download Speedify, confirm that you are getting upload packet loss like normal. Then after you have seen packet loss download it and run the trial and see what happens. Post your results!
Hope this can help some of you... This is my first night with it so hope it sticks
Good night!
P.S. Also if anyone can figure out what this program actually does that would be awesome for an explanation as to why it fixes it, maybe theres a free solution. I know some of you are pretty smart with this kind of stuff :)
speedify is a VPN service it gives you a different IP address which I'm assuming does something with how the internet communicates with AWS servers (not a huge internet guru so may be wrong as to why it makes it work). Most use it for illegal pirating of movies and what have you, but when used for fortnite it takes away the packet loss but comes at the cost of a sometimes higher ping. It's been noted multiple times that a VPN fixes the issue, the problem is we shouldn't have to use alternative methods to make our internet work as it should, considering this issue has been going on close to 6 months +. I used hotspot shield, but then came to the realization that it's crazy i'm spending money to play a game that's free while paying $100 a month for gigablast. So i quit fortnite and played other games.
