I mostly use the deck in desktop mode recently as my laptop died and I have it hooked up to a dock with monitor and keyboard.
I’m having a bunch of networking issues lately. Basically the network becomes incredibly unstable after some time and a reboot fixes it. Restarting networking through systemd does not fix the issue. Same with disable / enable networking in the dropdown.
Ping is going as high as 10,000ms where after a reboot it’s 14ms and I’m getting 5-15% packet loss.
The router is about 7 metres away (22 feet or so).
I do suspend quite a bit. System is fully up to date. Just rebooted and now it’s fine.
Holy. Fucking. Shit.
This was it.
Here’s my ping output. You can see where I unplugged and replugged the HDMI cable. Absolutely not in my wildest dreams would I have thought of this. Thank you so much.
(1)(deck@steamdeck ~)$ ping google.ie PING google.ie (74.125.193.94) 56(84) bytes of data. 64 bytes from ig-in-f94.1e100.net (74.125.193.94): icmp_seq=1 ttl=108 time=818 ms 64 bytes from ig-in-f94.1e100.net (74.125.193.94): icmp_seq=2 ttl=108 time=674 ms 64 bytes from ig-in-f94.1e100.net (74.125.193.94): icmp_seq=3 ttl=108 time=308 ms 64 bytes from ig-in-f94.1e100.net (74.125.193.94): icmp_seq=4 ttl=108 time=289 ms 64 bytes from ig-in-f94.1e100.net (74.125.193.94): icmp_seq=5 ttl=108 time=404 ms 64 bytes from ig-in-f94.1e100.net (74.125.193.94): icmp_seq=6 ttl=108 time=25.7 ms 64 bytes from ig-in-f94.1e100.net (74.125.193.94): icmp_seq=7 ttl=108 time=17.2 ms 64 bytes from ig-in-f94.1e100.net (74.125.193.94): icmp_seq=8 ttl=108 time=19.6 ms 64 bytes from ig-in-f94.1e100.net (74.125.193.94): icmp_seq=9 ttl=108 time=18.6 ms 64 bytes from ig-in-f94.1e100.net (74.125.193.94): icmp_seq=10 ttl=108 time=19.4 ms 64 bytes from ig-in-f94.1e100.net (74.125.193.94): icmp_seq=11 ttl=108 time=17.0 ms 64 bytes from ig-in-f94.1e100.net (74.125.193.94): icmp_seq=12 ttl=108 time=16.0 ms 64 bytes from ig-in-f94.1e100.net (74.125.193.94): icmp_seq=13 ttl=108 time=17.0 ms 64 bytes from ig-in-f94.1e100.net (74.125.193.94): icmp_seq=14 ttl=108 time=17.5 ms 64 bytes from ig-in-f94.1e100.net (74.125.193.94): icmp_seq=15 ttl=108 time=25.2 ms 64 bytes from ig-in-f94.1e100.net (74.125.193.94): icmp_seq=16 ttl=108 time=17.1 ms 64 bytes from ig-in-f94.1e100.net (74.125.193.94): icmp_seq=17 ttl=108 time=15.2 ms 64 bytes from ig-in-f94.1e100.net (74.125.193.94): icmp_seq=18 ttl=108 time=19.7 ms 64 bytes from ig-in-f94.1e100.net (74.125.193.94): icmp_seq=19 ttl=108 time=14.0 ms 64 bytes from ig-in-f94.1e100.net (74.125.193.94): icmp_seq=20 ttl=108 time=21.2 ms 64 bytes from ig-in-f94.1e100.net (74.125.193.94): icmp_seq=21 ttl=108 time=20.3 ms 64 bytes from ig-in-f94.1e100.net (74.125.193.94): icmp_seq=22 ttl=108 time=18.8 ms 64 bytes from ig-in-f94.1e100.net (74.125.193.94): icmp_seq=23 ttl=108 time=13.9 ms 64 bytes from ig-in-f94.1e100.net (74.125.193.94): icmp_seq=24 ttl=108 time=18.1 ms 64 bytes from ig-in-f94.1e100.net (74.125.193.94): icmp_seq=25 ttl=108 time=12.9 ms 64 bytes from ig-in-f94.1e100.net (74.125.193.94): icmp_seq=26 ttl=108 time=17.9 ms 64 bytes from ig-in-f94.1e100.net (74.125.193.94): icmp_seq=27 ttl=108 time=16.1 ms 64 bytes from ig-in-f94.1e100.net (74.125.193.94): icmp_seq=28 ttl=108 time=19.1 ms 64 bytes from ig-in-f94.1e100.net (74.125.193.94): icmp_seq=29 ttl=108 time=15.1 ms 64 bytes from ig-in-f94.1e100.net (74.125.193.94): icmp_seq=30 ttl=108 time=16.2 ms 64 bytes from ig-in-f94.1e100.net (74.125.193.94): icmp_seq=31 ttl=108 time=16.4 ms 64 bytes from ig-in-f94.1e100.net (74.125.193.94): icmp_seq=32 ttl=108 time=18.1 ms 64 bytes from ig-in-f94.1e100.net (74.125.193.94): icmp_seq=33 ttl=108 time=21.7 ms 64 bytes from ig-in-f94.1e100.net (74.125.193.94): icmp_seq=34 ttl=108 time=23.2 ms 64 bytes from ig-in-f94.1e100.net (74.125.193.94): icmp_seq=35 ttl=108 time=411 ms 64 bytes from ig-in-f94.1e100.net (74.125.193.94): icmp_seq=36 ttl=108 time=287 ms 64 bytes from ig-in-f94.1e100.net (74.125.193.94): icmp_seq=37 ttl=108 time=412 ms 64 bytes from ig-in-f94.1e100.net (74.125.193.94): icmp_seq=38 ttl=108 time=2445 ms 64 bytes from ig-in-f94.1e100.net (74.125.193.94): icmp_seq=39 ttl=108 time=1679 ms 64 bytes from ig-in-f94.1e100.net (74.125.193.94): icmp_seq=40 ttl=108 time=666 ms ^C --- google.ie ping statistics --- 41 packets transmitted, 40 received, 2.43902% packet loss, time 40064ms rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 12.890/223.052/2445.465/478.256 ms, pipe 3Would have never expected that, I’m glad I came back to this thread to see if you had made any progress. Searching online about that, sounds like it’s actually a somewhat common issue (that I had never heard of before now). Basically the advice is to try a better quality hdmi cable, swap to 5ghz wifi (which is less likely to get interference from this than 2.4Ghz), route the hdmi cable different to have more space between it and the deck, or add ferrite cores around the ends of the hdmi cable.
Tech is silly sometimes.