![]() ![]() I’ve played thousands, if not tens of thousands, of hours of video games on that console and I have a lot of fond memories based around when I got it. I’ve had my original switch since the day they came out and I’m still incredibly attached to it. I will say that the wired ethernet port on the included Switch dock was a HUGE selling point, since that would solve most of the stability issues inherent in throttled wifi connections, but I was also interested in a better battery, weightier console, and sharper display. Newer versions, the slightly upgraded basic Switch and OLED Switch models did not throttle the network card nearly as much, which meant that the connection was frequently more stable and less likely to dip below the required minimum because the Switch got warm.Īfter doing some research to verify these claims, and then a bit more research to make sure there wasn’t anything more than the usual rumors that Nintendo was about to release the next-gen version of the Switch, I would up diverting a big chunk of my “Buy a PS5, Eventually” budget into buying an OLED Switch. This earliest version throttled the network card (throttling in this context refers to when a piece of hardware has certain limits and restrictions on it that prevent it from performing at more than a set percentage of it’s capacity, generally to prevent the piece of hardware from growing too warm or overtaxing the other pieces of hardware it’s connected to) in a way that frequently made the Switch dip below the bandwidth levels required to play Splatoon 3, resulting in a lot of false “disconnected from the internet” errors for people like me who had fine internet but an old Switch. I spent time on Saturday doing more research, once I’d gotten so sick of being banned that I decided to call it quits for the night, but it was one of my friends who gave me the tidbit I needed to confirm the actual source of the issue.Īpparently, parallel to the “fix my internet” efforts I’d been researching and participating in with the online community of other people who just wanted to play Splatoon 3, was a slightly smaller community of people lamenting the fact that they had the same version of the Switch console that I did. ![]() It had maybe decreased the frequencey of the issues, which was probably enough to hide the problem in the week leading up to the Splatfest, but with all of the heavy traffic and multiple hours of playing that weekend, the lost connection issues resurfaced. After spending a week struggling to find every single possible issue that could explain why I kept getting an error claiming my Switch had lost connection to my router, I spent the first twenty-four hours of the most recent Splatfest trying to enjoy myself between instances of getting temporarily banned from continuing to play. ![]()
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