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Something weird is happening. I've been playing quite a few bullet games and I've noticed that the first few games I play are perfectly fine. However, there comes a point where there'll suddenly be a lot of lag and I start losing on time. My wifi doesn't change. The number of tabs I have open doesn't change. If nothing changes, how can there suddenly be so much lag? It's not a small amount. In the end, I'm losing games by >10 seconds. Something is very suspicious.

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prata69 wrote:

Something weird is happening. I've been playing quite a few bullet games and I've noticed that the first few games I play are perfectly fine. However, there comes a point where there'll suddenly be a lot of lag and I start losing on time. My wifi doesn't change. The number of tabs I have open doesn't change. If nothing changes, how can there suddenly be so much lag? It's not a small amount. In the end, I'm losing games by >10 seconds. Something is very suspicious.

Why should lag be constant?  It depends on many things-- the activities of other users on your wifi, other processes on your device, other users in your local area, the usage levels of chess.com and so on.

It's amazing that you can communicate as well as you do from across the globe.

 

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Yeah, I'm having similar issues but this is likely due to my ISP (Most probably scenario since same problem occurs over on Lichess as well)

My bullet rating has dipped by 200 and the game mode is almost unplayable now. Ugh.

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I have a severe lag issue as well. My blitz rating dropped a lot, sometimes I think I did the move and I’m waiting for my opponent to move then nothing happens, I realize is a lag and I should close the app and reopen it (and sometimes I don’t realize and wait until I ran out of time). I have a very fast internet connection with excellent bandwidth.
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@goldenbeer I actually have less of an issue on my phone (Most of the time). What's weird is I have a very fast wired connection on my PC here at work but still have the same issues. Quite odd.

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I'd like to add it doesn't seem to be a clock issue, but more of an issue with the animations, for what it's worth.

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For me it doesn’t happen all the time, but it happens frequently and really hurts.