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    Hello, so usually I play in an smp with friends, recently I could not join the server. If i joined the server I would just lag, all entities would be frozen, chunks wouldnt load and I would just disconnect in a few minutes. My friends could join perfectly fine, so its not the server, its just me having trouble, on speedtest.net i got 164.85 download speed and 11.68 upload speed. I can play other online games perfectly fine, its just minecraft im having trouble with. I tried to flush my dns and unblock it from my firewall too and that didnt work. This just happened recently, I never had a problem like this before, I just want to know how I can fix this.

    Quote from MiataBoy

    What errors do you get when attempting to join?

    What's your ping?

    Where do you live?


    Could you share your client log?

    Hey there, so to answer your questions

    1. After playing for a while, I dont really get errors now, its just that chunks load slowly/not at all and that entities are freezing and unfreezing (edit: after playing for a while I now get an error and its just %s, when I search online I can't get anything about it)

    2. When I hover on the internet bars in the multiplayer screen its on a range of 260-350 ms, and im not sure if this helps but also on the multiplayer screen it sometimes says "Cant connect to server" and (No Connection) when I hover on the internet bars (Edit: also when I join the server and hold tab it shows that I have 1 bar)

    3.I live in the Philippines


    4. I don't know where or what a client log is

    Yeah, i would guess the problem is that you live in the Philippines.


    Our servers are in central Europe, that's a LONG distance away from where you live, and this may cause connection issues due to this distance, especially when there's extra high traffic because of holidays, or generally extra activity. Unfortunately there is not really a good fix for this.

    Quote from MiataBoy

    Yeah, i would guess the problem is that you live in the Philippines.


    Our servers are in central Europe, that's a LONG distance away from where you live, and this may cause connection issues due to this distance, especially when there's extra high traffic because of holidays, or generally extra activity. Unfortunately there is not really a good fix for this.

    Oh dang, but can you help me here? When I join the aternos server and some other servers too I get this error, I searched online and I got nothing, can you help me?

    Also my friends have a good connection to the aternos server and all of them are from the Philippines, im wondering why its just me who has the bad connection.