I use mainly Outfox to unblock the voice chat so I can communicate in Rainbow Six siege since my ISP block the SIP port I can't send receive voip data which vivox use.
Outfox causing me to have lag spike and sometimes getting kicked from the match because of high random ping spikes so I stopped using it.
I decided to give it a try again and do some investigation why theses ping spikes happens since only GPN that unblock voice chat that I know is Outfox.
I suspected it's because of my low internet bandwidth I only have 4MB/s with a very limited upload speed(old ADSL that's the best thing we have here), so I tried monitoring my network bandwidth usage using Netlimiter.
When playing and at the moment I get lag spikes I notice that Outfox service is sucking up some of my internet bandwidth see the picture bellow.
Dual monitor screenshot showing both activity in game ping and internet usage at same time https://imgur.com/a/IPqe7
When my ping is normal the service don't use internet bandwidth at all, so what I did after starting and connecting to the game I block outfox from using internet bandwidth, this will block the Outfox statistics from showing and stop outfox tunnelling the game through the GPNb, so I assume this high bandwidth usage is for collecting data and showing them in Electron maybe also sending them to you for logs?
I get it this is because my internet suck and someone that have better internet bandwidth will not notice any lag spike, but for me it made outfox not usable so maybe think about fixing this.
I can use outfox now to only unblock the voice chat but my game traffic is still tunnelled through my normal network and I have to unblock connect to the game and block again each time I launch the game.
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I use mainly Outfox to unblock the voice chat so I can communicate in Rainbow Six siege since my ISP block the SIP port I can't send receive voip data which vivox use.
Outfox causing me to have lag spike and sometimes getting kicked from the match because of high random ping spikes so I stopped using it.
I decided to give it a try again and do some investigation why theses ping spikes happens since only GPN that unblock voice chat that I know is Outfox.
I suspected it's because of my low internet bandwidth I only have 4MB/s with a very limited upload speed(old ADSL that's the best thing we have here), so I tried monitoring my network bandwidth usage using Netlimiter.
When playing and at the moment I get lag spikes I notice that Outfox service is sucking up some of my internet bandwidth see the picture bellow.
Dual monitor screenshot showing both activity in game ping and internet usage at same time
Edited by hakimaadlhttps://imgur.com/a/IPqe7
When my ping is normal the service don't use internet bandwidth at all, so what I did after starting and connecting to the game I block outfox from using internet bandwidth, this will block the Outfox statistics from showing and stop outfox tunnelling the game through the GPNb, so I assume this high bandwidth usage is for collecting data and showing them in Electron maybe also sending them to you for logs?
I get it this is because my internet suck and someone that have better internet bandwidth will not notice any lag spike, but for me it made outfox not usable so maybe think about fixing this.
I can use outfox now to only unblock the voice chat but my game traffic is still tunnelled through my normal network and I have to unblock connect to the game and block again each time I launch the game.
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