Wierd pings.

Orgional Farimir · Oct 8, 2013

Is anyone else pining really high to east coast shards and significantly lower to west coast shards? Right now the log in page says I am pinging 156 to GL, 187 to LS, 95 to Sonoma and origin, 99 to Pacific, and 138 to Europa and Drachenfels.

I live in the Midwest and usually ping lowest to GL so I am confused as to why I have been getting a lower ping to Europa and west coast shards that Midwest shards.

Winter · Oct 8, 2013

Same for me, but it's been like that since UO hit the cloud.

Ray_Martin · Oct 8, 2013

I'm getting a lot higher ping than usual. Laggy as well on Chessy.

Orgional Farimir · Oct 8, 2013

I havent had great pings since they switched to he cloud either, but starting about 4 days ago it has became unplayable.

sibble · Oct 8, 2013

I feel like it's 1997...

My ping to LS is normally 20ms

Orgional Farimir · Oct 9, 2013

My game time is set to expire in 2 days. Do I need to worry about paying for another 30 days? I am pushing 1 week of pinging 100+ to every shard. Why pay for a service that is unplayable.

cazador · Oct 9, 2013

Maintenance mode time...I've been pinging 100-150 for awhile now..not sure if it's my ISP or EA servers..it's just strange that I ping perfectly fine in Darkfall/Rift/Planetside..hrm! Think I answered my own question..

-Hey Arnold- · Oct 10, 2013

My ping is ussally around 19-25 to ea servers past 3 days ive been at 170-222

Lythos- · Oct 10, 2013

Ping is normal right after server up. Somewhere around early morning/noon it goes down the toilet.

Since Monday, my ping to Hokuto is a mere 20 more than it is to east coast shards. It's completely unplayable and even worse that the problem isn't even acknowledged.

Winter · Oct 10, 2013

-Hey Arnold- said:
My ping is ussally around 19-25 to ea servers past 3 days ive been at 170-222

I've never had pings below 100 and UO is very playable... but not so much for PvP.

Orgional Farimir · Oct 10, 2013

Winter said:
I've never had pings below 100 and UO is very playable... but not so much for PvP.

Maybe if you want to PvM against mongbats. I even tried to do Cove the other night while I had horrible lag and I couldn't.

DevilsOwn · Oct 10, 2013

it's been bad on Legends for me for more than a week now, but the past two nights are unbearable.... my beggar has a hard time walking to Trick or Treat

Orgional Farimir · Oct 11, 2013

Well my secondary account went inactive today and I am not going to pay to reactivate it. Couple more weeks and my main account will be up for payment. I hope they get this fixed by then. If not my keep on Marble Island on GL will fall in 104 days.

Victim of Siege · Oct 11, 2013

my ping to Europa is better than my ping to Siege, guess i go bug Petra *packs up the Minions*

dunkirk · Oct 11, 2013

Ive been for a week now ping 120 to 150 to ls and atl i normally do 30 to 40
Did trace route and get hung up on hops 9 10 11 and have 100% pkt loss

Host Name IP Address Hop Ping Time Ping Avg % Loss Pkts r/s Ping best/worst
* Unknown Host * 192.168.0.1 1 0ms 0ms 0% 127 / 127 0ms / 1ms
* Unknown Host * xx.xx.xx.xx 2 7ms 10ms 0% 127 / 127 5ms / 29ms
xe-11-0-0-32767-sur01.a4atlanta.ga.atlanta.comcast.net68.85.32.105 3 9ms 13ms 0% 127 / 127 4ms / 41ms
xe-10-1-2-0-ar01.b0atlanta.ga.atlanta.comcast.net 68.86.107.34 4 8ms 16ms 0% 127 / 127 8ms / 86ms
he-5-13-0-0-10-cr01.56marietta.ga.ibone.comcast.net 68.86.93.201 5 12ms 12ms 0% 127 / 127 8ms / 19ms
* Unknown Host * 68.86.83.178 6 10ms 10ms 0% 127 / 127 9ms / 23ms
* Unknown Host * 65.124.97.177 7 48ms 32ms 0% 126 / 127 24ms / 58ms
* Unknown Host * 0.0.0.0 8 0ms
* Unknown Host * 67.133.224.206 9 126ms 100% 0 / 127
* Unknown Host * 72.21.220.159 10 125ms 100% 0 / 126
* Unknown Host * 72.21.222.157 11 125ms 100% 0 / 126
* Unknown Host * 0.0.0.0 12 0ms
* Unknown Host * 0.0.0.0 13 0ms
* Unknown Host * 0.0.0.0 14 0ms
ec2-107-23-140-135.compute-1.amazonaws.com 107.23.140.135 15 126ms 126ms 1% 124 / 126 121ms / 136ms

Anyone know who at ea to complain too ?

sibble · Oct 11, 2013

It's not EA.... See my above post.

sibble · Oct 11, 2013

Here's a post from another game complaining about lag spikes and the network route used involves a hop from qwest as well as this one.
http://us.battle.net/wow/en/forum/topic/10196089914

sibble · Oct 11, 2013

And yet another:
http://sto-forum.perfectworld.com/s...0cd3eb4475c008c557c590&p=12718041&postcount=5

Ok peoples

What you can do in the meantime, is what I did. Get a free 30-day trial with WTFast.com and bypass the hop. I've been running just fine using it. Best you can do is hope it gets fixed within 30 days.

Lord Frodo · Oct 12, 2013

sibble said:
And yet another:
http://sto-forum.perfectworld.com/s...0cd3eb4475c008c557c590&p=12718041&postcount=5

Ok peoples

What you can do in the meantime, is what I did. Get a free 30-day trial with WTFast.com and bypass the hop. I've been running just fine using it. Best you can do is hope it gets fixed within 30 days.

Need another trace so we can see the diff from post #5

Lythos- · Oct 12, 2013

sibble said:
What you can do in the meantime, is what I did. Get a free 30-day trial with WTFast.com and bypass the hop. I've been running just fine using it. Best you can do is hope it gets fixed within 30 days.

WTF trials time out after X amount of time (I think it's 20min) causing a discon requiring a client restart. It can get rather suckish if you lose track of time.

sibble · Oct 12, 2013

Lythos- said:
WTF trials time out after X amount of time (I think it's 20min) causing a discon requiring a client restart. It can get rather suckish if you lose track of time.

If it were like this for me, I wouldn't be using it.

When's the last time you've tested this? If it's been a while, I'd give it another shot. Make sure you also sort their servers by ping, and if that happened to be, I would try another server.

-Hey Arnold- · Oct 12, 2013

still 200+pings to every server up from 19 which i pinged 2 weeks ago?!

sibble · Oct 12, 2013

There's nothing the team can do about it. Back in the day this sort of thing would last for months. In thinking and hoping this shouldn't last longer than another week. I mean, I'm sure banks are transmitting important data over these lines as well... What I'm getting at is games are not the only thing affected by this, someone somewhere high up has to complain at some point.

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cazador · Oct 12, 2013

You're right! Back in the day these things did happen often..but we are 16 years in. You'd almost expect they ironed these issues out..but as with most everything else... "Soon"

sibble · Oct 12, 2013

cazador said:
You're right! Back in the day these things did happen often..but we are 16 years in. You'd almost expect they ironed these issues out..but as with most everything else... "Soon"

Can't argue with you there, now a days these kind of things are typically unheard of. I'm sure they will always happen but damn you'd think someone would notice and have it fixed within a 24hr period. If enough people complain to the right people it'll get noticed - be it your ISP or maybe Amazon.

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sibble · Oct 12, 2013

Only thing that gets me is that, again, this day in age, people can't fathom that there's a problem with anything other than the game server.

I mean... there is a bit more involved than your computer and the server that hosts the game.

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Lythos- · Oct 12, 2013

sibble said:
If it were like this for me, I wouldn't be using it.

When's the last time you've tested this? If it's been a while, I'd give it another shot. Make sure you also sort their servers by ping, and if that happened to be, I would try another server.

Late spring / early summer-ish. I've been on a sub since then and had no idea they changed it.

sibble · Oct 12, 2013

Lythos- said:
Late spring / early summer-ish. I've been on a sub since then and had no idea they changed it.

You gota understand that WTFast is not for your typical user. Some people may get lucky and the first sever they try they are good with. If not, I would keep trying. Networking can be misunderstood to many people. Even the 30day trial doesn't let you take full advantage over features I'm extremely interested in. From my understanding premium users can make their own routes.

Regardless this is not a long term situation and people are just required to be patient.

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Lord Frodo · Oct 13, 2013

Lythos- said:
Late spring / early summer-ish. I've been on a sub since then and had no idea they changed it.

TY for your service. Blue or Gold or do they still use those terms?

dupapa · Oct 13, 2013

i use a similiar service called lower ping, its about £5 a month also with the option of a 30 free trial with 20 min disconnects,

make the game playable when travelling across africa, also i guess would help with the above issue.

BrianATudor · Oct 13, 2013

Well this sure is weaksauce... I go from being one of the fastest people on ATL, constantly being accused of speedhacking, to not even being able to play because of 2 second pauses every 3 steps.

Victim of Siege · Oct 14, 2013

I checked at around 6:00am (eastern time) this morning, before i headed out to do some work for Dad. I had 31 latency, 0% Packet loss, to all East coast servers. right now its back to 200, 50%+ packet loss, for east coast servers.

sibble · Oct 18, 2013

Looks like the bad hop issue has been resolved, ping back down to 20ms.

BACK TO PVP
:sword:

dupapa · Oct 19, 2013

Good to hear.. hopefully you didnt need to resort to a paid service to cut it the bad hop in the interim!!

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