
If your connection and performance improves after connecting your computer directly to the internet, your best, next step is to reconfigure your router to work with DST. If up-to-date, remove the router from your network, and connect your computer directly to the internet using a wired,ethernet connection to ensure the highest level of connectivity. To determine if your Wi-Fi or wireless router is causing connection issues, please ensure that your router’s firmware are up-to-date. In general, wireless connections can be unreliable for online gaming. Poor Network Performance while playing over Wi-Fi (Wireless Connection)

While connecting to an OK or Bad host may cause occasional stalls or jitters during gameplay. A Good host, with a reasonably low ping will provide the optimal experience when playing Don’t Starve Together. Performance can be labeled “Good”, “OK”, or “Bad”. When in-game, you can view the host’s performance by pressing the tab key. Generally, it is recommended to join or play with host servers who are showing low ping and whose performance is labeled “Good”. Understanding the difference between a “Good”, “OK, and “Bad” Host It is recommended to join servers that are showing ping of 150 or below on the server list for optimal network performance. If a server is showing a low ping, this means a faster, more stable connection between your system and the host server. Ping is the connection time of your network basically how fast you get a response back after you’ve made a request. This can be turned off in the settings by toggling "Lag Compensation" to None, which will trade the prediction with input lag (players will have to wait for the server to confirm their action before it will start). In Don't Starve Together, we use movement prediction by default, which may cause a delay in the animation while preforming actions and show you in a slightly different location than where you or other players are on the server.

When connecting to, or hosting a server, and you run into performance or network issues such as "rubberbanding" or "choppiness", see the information and troubleshooting steps below to identify and address the issue.
