"Oh no, some guy complaining about having bad ping in lobbies, better just close this immediately"
To start this off, my problem with lag in lobbies is not ping related so please hear me out.
First allow me to show you a picture that I just took in some random pub.
So this is a picture of just a normal pub. I have good ping, good fps, blah blah blah. Now when I join tf2center games, my ping will vary from 40-70, but that usually doesn't matter. what does matter is that little thing that says in: and that thing that says out: (bottom right). Now in lobbies my out: stays the same, but my in: will jump up to anywhere from 1000-2000 or sometimes even more. Does this happen anywhere else? No, it does not happen to me in pubs, mge servers, or servers running competitive plugins (I recently played for a hl team and in no matches did I have any major problems with my in, only some occasional ping problems). I have no clue what causes this massive spike, and neither did my team leader when we tried to do a tf2center, he was puzzled. If you have any clue what may cause this please tell me.
An additional note; sometimes I can't even join the lobby and I will just get stuck in the loading screen, even if I input the server connect through console.
Thanks!