Xbox Console Streaming - Latency from Australia

gs667 · Jan 19, 2020

Hi,

With Console Streaming opening up to more countries I tried to set it up. I had green ticks for everything except latency.

Running speedtest.net I have a 90/40 mbps speed with a 25ms ping. That is from Hobart to Melbourne. Xbox's detailed network stats tells me it is 94/28 and 144ms. From a bit of googling it seems that this is a test to Seattle. I changed speedtest.net to Seattle
and it shows a little higher but about the same.

If this is the case how will anyone in Australia ever be able to use console streaming. I'm sure other countries will have the same issues.

I thought the idea was to stream your xbox to your phone so why is the latency to Seattle important? Am I missing something? It is a beta so maybe it will be changed to a location closer to home.

My entertainment gear is running via ethernet to a small switch then into my various devices. I tried running a cable straight from the router to the xbox and tried it on Wifi. Both had the same latency as the current setup. My Nat is open and I have prioritised
the xbox in the Linksys WRT 1900 ACS router. Australia has multiple connection types because of a pathetic government. Luckily I am on fibre to the premises.

So any ideas on how to reduce latency? Or do I need to wait until Microsoft sort this out a bit more.

thanks for any help you can offer.

gas667

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XBF Leo G

Hey gs667,

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gs667

I used speedtest.net. There is a hyperlink to "Change Server". Search for Seattle and run it. My test from Hobart to Melbourne is 22ms at the moment and I'm streaming a cricket game as well. If I change to speedtest.net's Seattle server I get 210ms. My
Xbox is lower at about 160ms (without the cricket).

gs667

Thanks for the reply.

I have looked through this. The only answer i keep coming to is ask your ISP. As mine is Optus that will only result in wasted time.

VigneshRavichandran1

I'm from India and I too experience the same issue. I've run speed tests with results showing very less latency while xbox shows i have 150ms.. Does the answer marked in this thread work? (I'm away right now so i cant check it myself)

Dessert Meat

Im in Australia and having the exact same issue. NBN FTTP with Telstra with good speedtest and ping results but latency is 137ms at the lowest in the xbox streaming test.

Doesnt look like there is any way around it at the moment so i will try leave some feedback in the xbox insider hub to let them know of this issue so they can hopefully look into a solution.

Anyone else reading this thats having the same issue should do the same so they have as many examples as possible to help them out with a solution.

Xbox Console Streaming - Latency from Australia