Lag on Netplay

[FSF]

I'm recently picking up this game and most of my opponents, even within the same state, say that the matches are laggy.
I'm on Comcast in an apartment complex and I don't have ethernet cables but I do have a powerline adapter set up, so I am wired in. On speedtest.net I get anywhere from 20 MBPS download speed up to 30 MBPS.

Shouldn't my setup be good enough to play other people in my state? I live in Michigan so I don't think there is a really big scene here and I can't meet people locally to play. I don't really see any other option. I might have to give up this game if I can't figure it out. I play other online games just fine, but I guess Melee requires a nearly perfect synchronization with low ping to be played properly.

Edit: I forgot to mention that when I connect to other people in michigan, I get about 40-50 ping, but most of the time I get strange lag spikes that go up to 112 ms or around that area. It makes the game feel like garbage. Every 10 seconds, the ping just fluctuates wildly. I don't know what could be causing this.

 

[Roukiske]

Sounds like an internet issue. There's lots to troubleshoot in that region such as interference, bandwidth hogs (damn Apple products shoot my ping up like no other I swear), your modem, your wifi adapter, too many people on the internet (not even your internet, just too many people in your area... ATT told me this so I don't know how much to believe). I got the same problem with ATT. I still haven't figured out exactly what it is, though I suspect it could be the TV as the cable I have uses internet and takes priority over any device (I don't have a lot of bandwidth to begin with). This was said straight from the techs themselves.

It's not just Melee for me either, other games I'll get lag spikes randomly, seemingly at peak hours. Sometimes it happens, sometimes it doesnt. Once it hits like 12 AM though it hardly happens, must be the world around me sleeping or something.

I used to have comcast and it never did this so I'm happily switching back once the ATT contract is up.

 

[EPsilon933]

I'm recently picking up this game and most of my opponents, even within the same state, say that the matches are laggy.
I'm on Comcast

No need to read anymore. The problem is Comcast (I've heard it sucks ultra hard)

in an apartment complex and I don't have ethernet cables but I do have a powerline adapter set up, so I am wired in. On speedtest.net I get anywhere from 20 MBPS download speed up to 30 MBPS.

What about ping? That's the most important part of an internet connection when gaming online

Shouldn't my setup be good enough to play other people in my state? I live in Michigan so I don't think there is a really big scene here and I can't meet people locally to play. I don't really see any other option. I might have to give up this game if I can't figure it out. I play other online games just fine, but I guess Melee requires a nearly perfect synchronization with low ping to be played properly.

Melee requires local play to work well. Timings are too dynamic to tolerate with lag. There's too much to react to to change your timings

Edit: I forgot to mention that when I connect to other people in michigan, I get about 40-50 ping, but most of the time I get strange lag spikes that go up to 112 ms or around that area. It makes the game feel like garbage. Every 10 seconds, the ping just fluctuates wildly. I don't know what could be causing this.

I don't know what your technically wired connection is like, but if you can at all get an ethernet connection, please get an ethernet connection. It's simply so much better for online (fighting) gaming. Also, 40-50 ping is a lot. That's about 2.5-3 frames of lag. You happen to also play on a gaming/CRT monitor too, right?