Does Microsoft Hate Me? (Destiny)

by Ragashingo , Official DBO Cryptarch, Thursday, April 14, 2016, 02:12 (3239 days ago)

For the last couple of weeks I have had just the most awful time playing Destiny because I'm constantly red bar... except my connection is perfectly fine as far as I can tell. Speed tests to the nearest servers report ping times in the 11 - 13 ms range. Speed reports consistently as 50Mb down and between 5 and 6Mb up... which is exactly what I pay for. Servers further away increase the ping slightly to the 40ms range but the speed remains constant. All other internet related things from downloads to streaming video is perfectly fine... so what the hell?!

Then, I remembered I cancelled Xbox live a couple of weeks back... it just hasn't expired yet. My Destiny experience has been Lagtacular... and I've been getting dropped or errored out of Xbox Live parties pretty often.. like several times a night... could I somehow have been relegated to totally crappy / over-capacity Xbox Live servers because I'm not currently paying but still playing?

Also... does anyone know any other ways I could test my connection... like to the Xbox Live network itself... so if I can't at least see some packet loss or something to show why my multiplayer experience is just total crap right now?