Unable to Play PoE Properly with Slower Internet Speeds

I live in an area as of now that has no options for actual high-speed internet. I have 20mbps down maximum and due to this, I cannot play the game anymore. Why have limits on such a good game by way of making it forced online? Or at the least have some component in the game besides SSF that allows you to play the game without the multiplayer aspect, I know this would potentially split the game player base, but what do you suggest for the people who literally cannot get good internet where they live? I love and have played this game for so long, since early 2013, and to not be able to play it properly without lag spikes, desync and all sorts of lag issues due to poor internet is just a letdown. No there are no other variant options for higher internet speeds where I live and yes I have tried literally everything in the area I live for higher speed internet. Now I will have to move out of my current living situation just to be able to play the game. A game that is so good that it makes other games look bad in comparison and other multiplayer games out there don't cut it just like this one does. There must be some solution GGG can come up with for this and I know I am not the only one complaining about this either, not everyone has access to high-speed internet. What do you propose for those people besides moving to an area that has high-speed internet? Because if that's your only solution to the problem, you don't care for your player base as much as you claim you do.

Sorry to hear about your difficulty's, I recently did not even have any kind of internet available outside of even worse speeds than you have with a satellite company, So i know just how much it sucks not being able to play your favorite game, This happened to me midway through the delve league and it really sucked.

I can't do much to help you but there is one launch option that will at the very least likely reduce the amount of times that you are getting sent back to the login screen and potentially the outright disconnections, Generally this fix is for people using a standard HDD but it could potentially help you out here.

If you are playing through steam this is pretty easy to implement if not you can google how to add launch options to the default games launcher.

--noasync
^this will make the game pre-load things instead of streaming them to you which will make your loading times much longer but has helped me and other users in various situations.

In steam right click path of exile in your library and go to properties, in this menu there will be a set launch options.. button, simply paste that whole "--noasync" line without the quotes in there and click ok.

I genuinely hope this helps you even a tiny amount.

On a side note you should really try to break your posts up into paragraphs to be easier to read so that your posts are more likely to be read and properly digested.

It might be your upload speed, lag spikes can't happen with a 20mbs connection, this game simply does not require that much, nor would you need 1gps download to play POE, you are not streaming 4K movies online.


I played poe from a crappy 10mbs connection from my phone via tethering, yeah the ping wasn't great, but it was playable,it varied between 80-130 ish. It wasn't ideal,especially when my ping was above 110, but overall I did manage a few shaper runs and 2 red elders that way.

Look at your upload speed, as your download is more than enough for this game, maybe you can change something with that, as really,you do not need that much download speed for this game.