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CatLord
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/signed.
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Salya Sin
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Hmm.. I've been unable to sign onto Napa for about a week or more now. I even have someone coming out to fix the internet lines... I wonder if UO is part of the problem. I've not had lag like this since I was using AOL to play, years ago! I just get booted every time I sign on... did EA downsize somewhere they shouldn't have?
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Professor Moriarty
Guest
Its like the good old days, when you made the mistake of logging out at brit bank, and there were so many people that it made logging back in a nightmare. But we no longer have this amount of people in one place and we have moved on from 28k modems.
So whats the problem? I dont understand where the lag comes from. But its there!
So whats the problem? I dont understand where the lag comes from. But its there!
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Splup
Guest
Yep, Europa deffo freaking laggy.
lags like hell again 
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Kiminality
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Try running a traceroute to either europa.owo.com or drachenfels.owo.com
Near as I can figure it, you're all connecting from outside the UK.
No one I know within the UK has commented on lage, which means you're probably getting routed through a common node on the way into the UK (both servers are in the same place).
Near as I can figure it, you're all connecting from outside the UK.
No one I know within the UK has commented on lage, which means you're probably getting routed through a common node on the way into the UK (both servers are in the same place).
Nope, I use the EC client and haven't had any lag on Europa.
It's rather weird, indeed.
I have a ping of around 40 to Drachenfels, but of late I get the occasional lag spike. Not very often but 2 or 3 per hour. looks like there's some kind of problem somewhere, but I can't pinpoint it, as my ping is as good as always. strange..
I have a ping of around 40 to Drachenfels, but of late I get the occasional lag spike. Not very often but 2 or 3 per hour. looks like there's some kind of problem somewhere, but I can't pinpoint it, as my ping is as good as always. strange..
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Zandros
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Still the same - since days now.
The game is currentyl not playable when you want to do a bit more than banksitting.
Or is it only me ???
The game is currentyl not playable when you want to do a bit more than banksitting.
Or is it only me ???
I ran a continuous ping to drachenfels.owo.com while playing tonight and watched it closely when I experienced lag. Interestingly my ping did NOT go up when I was lagging. Not at all. So the lag seems to be something other than the connection to the server.
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Coyt
Guest
someone forgot to renew the contract to colt.net?
Yesterday we were doing Melisande and while I didn't experience any lag, my wife had seconds long lagspike during the whole fight.
This observation is not really new. Last week I was experiencing heavy lag while playing on the enhanced client and, at the same time, I had no lag at all on another account playing the classic client.
I suspect some weird bug lags the enhanced client out, but I hope I'm wrong, because if I'm right this might prove very difficult to track down.
The enhanced client was indeed screwed up with last patch (See another bug report here) and I won't be playing the classic client anymore.
In a nutshell, I don't know if the european servers are lagging or not, if the enhanced client is bugged or not, but we are not in 1998 anymore, this is not acceptable.
This observation is not really new. Last week I was experiencing heavy lag while playing on the enhanced client and, at the same time, I had no lag at all on another account playing the classic client.
I suspect some weird bug lags the enhanced client out, but I hope I'm wrong, because if I'm right this might prove very difficult to track down.
The enhanced client was indeed screwed up with last patch (See another bug report here) and I won't be playing the classic client anymore.
In a nutshell, I don't know if the european servers are lagging or not, if the enhanced client is bugged or not, but we are not in 1998 anymore, this is not acceptable.
I feel your pain. The East coast servers had some trouble with Level3.net some time back and it went on for months. You could almost set your clock by what time the lag started every day. Made the game unplayable from the West coast.
The culprit was found after many many traceroutes were compared, and it was found that it wasn't EA's fault, btw. It did eventually get fixed though.
I suggest start comparing tracerts...tech forums, etc.
The culprit was found after many many traceroutes were compared, and it was found that it wasn't EA's fault, btw. It did eventually get fixed though.
I suggest start comparing tracerts...tech forums, etc.
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Zandros
Guest
I am playing classic client only.
Yes, you can never know for sure what's causing the problem.
I just had very bad lag spikes in the 2D client aswell a few minutes ago and my connection is just fine:
>ping -t drachenfels.owo.com
Pinging central-eu2.owo.com [159.153.156.150] with 32 bytes of data:
Reply from 159.153.156.150: bytes=32 time=28ms TTL=49
Reply from 159.153.156.150: bytes=32 time=30ms TTL=49
Reply from 159.153.156.150: bytes=32 time=29ms TTL=49
Reply from 159.153.156.150: bytes=32 time=30ms TTL=49
Reply from 159.153.156.150: bytes=32 time=29ms TTL=49
Reply from 159.153.156.150: bytes=32 time=29ms TTL=49
Reply from 159.153.156.150: bytes=32 time=30ms TTL=49
Reply from 159.153.156.150: bytes=32 time=28ms TTL=49
Reply from 159.153.156.150: bytes=32 time=28ms TTL=49
Reply from 159.153.156.150: bytes=32 time=28ms TTL=49
Reply from 159.153.156.150: bytes=32 time=28ms TTL=49
Reply from 159.153.156.150: bytes=32 time=30ms TTL=49
Reply from 159.153.156.150: bytes=32 time=29ms TTL=49
Reply from 159.153.156.150: bytes=32 time=30ms TTL=49
Ping statistics for 159.153.156.150:
Packets: Sent = 14, Received = 14, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 28ms, Maximum = 30ms, Average = 29ms
Just in case:
>tracert drachenfels.owo.com
Tracing route to central-eu2.owo.com [159.153.156.150] over a maximum of 30 hops:
1 2 ms 1 ms 2 ms . [192.168.1.1]
2 21 ms 20 ms 20 ms 1.186-66-87.adsl-dyn.isp.belgacom.be [87.66.186.1]
3 23 ms 22 ms 22 ms 58.255-240-81.adsl-static.isp.belgacom.be [81.240.255.58]
4 22 ms 23 ms 22 ms ge0-0.intlstr1.isp.belgacom.be [194.78.0.46]
5 23 ms 22 ms 23 ms 80.66.135.181
6 25 ms 23 ms 23 ms sl-bb20-bru-8-0.sprintlink.net [80.66.128.45]
7 27 ms 29 ms 28 ms sl-bb22-lon-13-0.sprintlink.net [213.206.129.41]
8 28 ms 29 ms 28 ms sl-crs2-lon-0-0-0-0.sprintlink.net [213.206.128.182]
9 30 ms 29 ms 28 ms sl-gw29-lon-14-0-0.sprintlink.net [213.206.128.167]
10 28 ms 29 ms 28 ms 213.206.159.166
11 30 ms 29 ms 37 ms fert04-ixe-lhr.ea.com [159.153.156.98]
12 30 ms 29 ms 29 ms 159.153.156.150
Trace complete.
>tracert drachenfels.owo.com
Tracing route to central-eu2.owo.com [159.153.156.150] over a maximum of 30 hops:
1 2 ms 1 ms 2 ms . [192.168.1.1]
2 21 ms 20 ms 20 ms 1.186-66-87.adsl-dyn.isp.belgacom.be [87.66.186.1]
3 23 ms 22 ms 22 ms 58.255-240-81.adsl-static.isp.belgacom.be [81.240.255.58]
4 22 ms 23 ms 22 ms ge0-0.intlstr1.isp.belgacom.be [194.78.0.46]
5 23 ms 22 ms 23 ms 80.66.135.181
6 25 ms 23 ms 23 ms sl-bb20-bru-8-0.sprintlink.net [80.66.128.45]
7 27 ms 29 ms 28 ms sl-bb22-lon-13-0.sprintlink.net [213.206.129.41]
8 28 ms 29 ms 28 ms sl-crs2-lon-0-0-0-0.sprintlink.net [213.206.128.182]
9 30 ms 29 ms 28 ms sl-gw29-lon-14-0-0.sprintlink.net [213.206.128.167]
10 28 ms 29 ms 28 ms 213.206.159.166
11 30 ms 29 ms 37 ms fert04-ixe-lhr.ea.com [159.153.156.98]
12 30 ms 29 ms 29 ms 159.153.156.150
Trace complete.
It's definitely on the server side.
Tonight, I was stuck in melee with Mephitis for like 20 seconds while my whole guild was experiencing the same lag. Normally this would have been my death. But mephitis didn't do squat in all that time. So, simply put, she had lag too.
And this was just the most remarkable lag of all. It was really especially bad tonite, at least while fighting spawn and even more while fighting the champ.
I noticed a raise in player numbers on Drachs, maybe our old server isn't used to so many players anymore?!
Tonight, I was stuck in melee with Mephitis for like 20 seconds while my whole guild was experiencing the same lag. Normally this would have been my death. But mephitis didn't do squat in all that time. So, simply put, she had lag too.
And this was just the most remarkable lag of all. It was really especially bad tonite, at least while fighting spawn and even more while fighting the champ.
I noticed a raise in player numbers on Drachs, maybe our old server isn't used to so many players anymore?!
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Zandros
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Situation right now reminds me of the "good old days" back in 1998. After casting recall it took up to half hour until you got the target cursor.
Half hour ago i already got it within 5 seconds. Not sure whether i should consider this as an improvement.
Half hour ago i already got it within 5 seconds. Not sure whether i should consider this as an improvement.
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Godiva_DF
Guest
Same problem here
every 30 seconds I experience a 2-3 second lag
every 30 seconds I experience a 2-3 second lag
Wow ! I never tested the ping before and mine is crap !
100 average
And I'm not having any lag, meaning it's not worst than usually so it's probably what I have usually... lol it's no wonder that I die so often!
I did the traceroute and I see that some are much much better, is there a way for me to force my connection to use one of the good ones instead of the one it's using now ?
100 average
And I'm not having any lag, meaning it's not worst than usually so it's probably what I have usually... lol it's no wonder that I die so often!
I did the traceroute and I see that some are much much better, is there a way for me to force my connection to use one of the good ones instead of the one it's using now ?
Maybe this is a bit "techie language", but it might help solving the problem:
Every time you log on to Drachenfels, you will be connected to a random IP address in the range of drach server, which, afaik, is 159.153.156.150 to 159.153.156.159. The system with fixed IPs belonging to a subserver area seems to have gone a long time ago...
I only experience heavy lags when being connected to IP 159.153.156.154; all other IPs of drachenfels look unaffected and let me play the game flawlessly. I suspect just this one single IP as being "bugged".
Maybe some of my Drach fellow citizens could verify this while being logged on to the server:
open a command prompt ("start"->"run"->type in "cmd") and type "netstat". You should see an IP in the range mentioned above... (Port 5001 on remote address). Is it ...154 when experiencing heavy lag?
(see attached example pic.)
If this proves to be true, I intend to send a bug report to EA/Mythic.
Every time you log on to Drachenfels, you will be connected to a random IP address in the range of drach server, which, afaik, is 159.153.156.150 to 159.153.156.159. The system with fixed IPs belonging to a subserver area seems to have gone a long time ago...
I only experience heavy lags when being connected to IP 159.153.156.154; all other IPs of drachenfels look unaffected and let me play the game flawlessly. I suspect just this one single IP as being "bugged".
Maybe some of my Drach fellow citizens could verify this while being logged on to the server:
open a command prompt ("start"->"run"->type in "cmd") and type "netstat". You should see an IP in the range mentioned above... (Port 5001 on remote address). Is it ...154 when experiencing heavy lag?
(see attached example pic.)
If this proves to be true, I intend to send a bug report to EA/Mythic.
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Hmm. Several Lag Spikes this morning.
Like Obsidian recommended, I used cmd and netstat at the dos prompt and...tada...
154
relogged several times (difficult to get rid of this 154 address)
until i got 153
No lag so far! (after 30 minutes testing)
Could be coincidence...
or Obsidian is right.
/Claire
Like Obsidian recommended, I used cmd and netstat at the dos prompt and...tada...
154
relogged several times (difficult to get rid of this 154 address)
until i got 153
No lag so far! (after 30 minutes testing)
Could be coincidence...
or Obsidian is right.
/Claire
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Godiva_DF
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152 - no lag
156 - huge lag spikes
156 - huge lag spikes
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CatLord
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156... seconds of lag.
rest... ok.
Thanks for the tip!
rest... ok.
Thanks for the tip!
hmm - thanks for all the feedback.
I am a bit surprised to hear some of you got probs with 156. With an appropriate network monitor tool, I can easily make those outages visible on 154, but not on 156...
This is what one of those typical outages look like:
- first graph: simultaneous ping every 1 second to all IPs of Drachenfels
- second graph: area4-eu2.owo.com (= 159.153.156.154) isolated out of first graph
(this usually occurs 5 to 10 times within one hour)
If someone at EA/Mythic reads this, could you pass this to your network guys?
I am a bit surprised to hear some of you got probs with 156. With an appropriate network monitor tool, I can easily make those outages visible on 154, but not on 156...
This is what one of those typical outages look like:
- first graph: simultaneous ping every 1 second to all IPs of Drachenfels
- second graph: area4-eu2.owo.com (= 159.153.156.154) isolated out of first graph
(this usually occurs 5 to 10 times within one hour)
If someone at EA/Mythic reads this, could you pass this to your network guys?
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Zig_Mythic
Guest
I've passed this along!
Thank you, Zig!I've passed this along!
Hope they can sort this out. If needed, I could provide them with additional tech infos / graphs.
Didn't help us much today, and again tonight many of us on napa (East & West Coast players) would lag right out or start the 5 to 10 sec pause/lag outs. I did a quick trace & here is what was causing my lag (on numerous traces at different times I did these)
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deraiky
Guest
We've been runnign around at yew fell and litterly had 10 second freezes every 2 seconds for about 5 mins..
Unplayable anyone ?
Unplayable anyone ?
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Nenime
Guest
I'm glad that you mentioned this.
My keep is in Fel and when I craft there, the lag is unbelievable - no matter what sub-ID (though 154 is the worst). Mining and Lumberjacking in Fel is a constant stop and go too. Ter Mur, Malas and Trammel seems to be much better in this regard.
Edit: While lagging, my CPU usage is at 10-20% and RAM at 20-30% so that's not the problem. No crowed places or unusual activities either. I'm using the EC.
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Lady_Mina
Guest
even the Classic client players are not spared by the lag
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Megilhir
Guest
Have a small tower on that Shard.
Playing other shards (Atlantic/Pacific) until this one is fixed.
Playing other shards (Atlantic/Pacific) until this one is fixed.