Hi,

The past three days or so I have been experiencing very bad lag whenever I try to enter the nether.  When I enter a portal, the game begins to teleport me, but lags on the loading screen.  By the time the game catches up and I can see/move around in the nether, my game client has already finished the countdown in to teleport me back to the overworld.  This makes it effectively impossible to travel between the nether and the overworld using portals.

I know a bit of lag is to be expected with nether portals, but its only been the past three days or so that I have been unable to use portals at all.  I have not changed hardware or anything else which would cause an increase in client-side lag.  I’ve also tested my network speeds, which have not changed since before the start of the issue.

As far as in-game things I have tested, it seems the problem is slightly worse if I am teleporting to or from an area that already has a lot going on, such as animal farms or beacons.  If there is nothing happening in an area I can go through a portal maybe once in every 15 tries, whereas I can never get through to an area with a beacon.

Is anyone else experiencing similar problems?  If not, does anyone have suggestions of other things I can test?

Update: Turning render distance down to 2 chunks seems to be a temporary fix for the problem. It’s a pain to play that way though, and I have never had trouble with the default render settings in the past.