Okay, everyone how has played Street Fighter IV has ran into really laggy games. But I feel like the games I get in are laggy for no reason. For example, me and my friend were playing and the lag was so bad, the damn game looked like a sideshow! We both have decent connection, and we both live time the same fucking city, hell,  we go to the same school, so why do I have a hard time connecting to his game?
 
We play a few games and we get disconnected! It just pisses me off and makes me not want to play this game. Oh, and thank god for custom soundtrack, or else I would have that fucking lyric yelled at me a million times. They should really focus on making the horrible match making better rather that work on the song, because I bet you they put more effort in the song.
 
And, come to think of it, SFIV only requires two people to play online. Other online games that I have played, like Warhawk, and Red Faction, run smoothly, but has more people in them.
 
 
Keep in mind reading this that I no NOTHING about networking, etc.
 
/rant.

Okay, everyone how has played Street Fighter IV has ran into really laggy games. But I feel like the games I get in are laggy for no reason. For example, me and my friend were playing and the lag was so bad, the damn game looked like a sideshow! We both have decent connection, and we both live time the same fucking city, hell,  we go to the same school, so why do I have a hard time connecting to his game?
 
We play a few games and we get disconnected! It just pisses me off and makes me not want to play this game. Oh, and thank god for custom soundtrack, or else I would have that fucking lyric yelled at me a million times. They should really focus on making the horrible match making better rather that work on the song, because I bet you they put more effort in the song.
 
And, come to think of it, SFIV only requires two people to play online. Other online games that I have played, like Warhawk, and Red Faction, run smoothly, but has more people in them.
 
 
Keep in mind reading this that I no NOTHING about networking, etc.
 
/rant.

Ugh, it's either your or your friend's connection -  I RARELY have any lag, and when I do it's someone in America, probably the west coast too.
 
Anyway, want a game any time soon?

I've had next to no problems with lag. Maybe one out of every 15 games will have a stutter and one out of every 40 will be unplayable.
 
But most of my problems come from the shitty matchmaking so...

Never mind, you have the PS3 version.

I've experienced very little lag since playing Street Fighter 4 since it came out

If you or your friend use a router you could be having trouble connecting to each other because of it.

" @Baillie: Are you on PS3. If so, I'd me glad to have someone whoop my ass. "

" Well if you both live close by why dont you just play local? That cuts out lag entirely. "

I got the PS3 version and I don't have this problem. If you wanna play send me a friend request, PSN: NinjaHunter.

You could both test your internet connection through the PS3. Settings -> Internet Connection -> Test Internet Connection

I rarely run into lag online in this game. Oddly though me and a friend were playing online a few days ago and our first 10 or so matches were fine. Then we remade the match and every match had horrible lag.

Actually there's quite a lot of lag in SF4 online, and its not always immediately noticeable.  I fight a pretty good Balrog player pretty regularly in local matches.  If i play other balrogs online I can immediately notice lag almost always.  Even that extra half second makes things very difficult to punish sometimes.  many times a ken simply spamming light dragon punches is completely un-punishable because he has great recovery, and the same stuff that would punish it offline simply wont work online.  Thats really where I notice the lag the most, on quick punishes and reversals that should land but dont due to just a small amount of lag that makes the timing very different.

I dont get much lag, but its really hard to find an open game. I might try for two minutes before I get a connect. On Friday I finally connected and it was some punk kid talking smack on his mic. I fought him three times, and all three times he used Ryu and Ken. I almost beat him the first time, the 2nd I used Balrog and got killed. Both times he was talking mad shit into his mic. The third round I decided to mess with him, and picked Rufus. The kid was laughing and saying I was going to lose because I was using Rufus, "that fat piece of shit...etc". Well, I cleaned the floor with him, and pulled off an Ultra combo for the win. He shut up and promplty moved on.

Wired Connection + Nat 1 or 2 = decent online fighting game experience