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Extremely bad connection, unplayable lag

picommander

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Stratics Veteran
Hi guys,
this is Rubinstein from in game and this is some kind of a cry for help. My connection quality to the game is so bad that for many hours it's just impossible to play. For several days now I'm trying to figure out the cause of the problem but after all logical conclusions and exclusions I'm pretty sure the cause is not on my site (I'm living in Germany btw). Assuming the server is at "projectgorgon.com" or at least using the same provider here's what I get from tracert when connection is really horrible: I don't post ping output here, it just shows some packet losses. The interesting stuff comes from tracert:

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1    <1 ms    <1 ms    <1 ms  fritz.box [192.168.178.1]
  2    54 ms    26 ms    44 ms  rdsl-wprt-de01.nw.mediaways.net [213.20.58.3]
  3    53 ms    24 ms    58 ms  xmws-wprt-de02-chan-18.nw.mediaways.net [62.53.159.246]
  4    48 ms    25 ms   155 ms  rmwc-essn-de02-xe-0-0-2.nw.mediaways.net [62.53.2.140]
  5    47 ms    44 ms    72 ms  rmwc-dsdf-de02-xe-0-1-0-0.nw.mediaways.net [62.53.1.220]
  6    93 ms    54 ms    27 ms  rmwc-dsdf-de01-chan-6-0.nw.mediaways.net [62.53.1.92]
  7    33 ms    60 ms    80 ms  xmws-frnk-de17-chan-0-0.nw.mediaways.net [195.71.212.202]
  8    80 ms    31 ms    41 ms  30gigabitethernet4-3.core1.fra1.he.net [80.81.192.172]
  9    74 ms    78 ms    64 ms  100ge5-2.core1.par2.he.net [72.52.92.13]
10   138 ms   120 ms   124 ms  10ge15-1.core1.ash1.he.net [184.105.213.93]
11   141 ms   131 ms   142 ms  10ge12-7.core1.chi1.he.net [184.105.213.245]
12   178 ms   177 ms   211 ms  10ge1-1.core1.mci1.he.net [72.52.92.2]
13   180 ms   202 ms   180 ms  10ge1-1.core1.mci2.he.net [184.105.213.2]
14     *      151 ms   151 ms  wholesale-internet-inc.10gigabitethernet1-3.core1.mci2.he.net [216.66.78.90]
15   183 ms   149 ms   148 ms  lag-2.edge-a.clay1.mci.us.wholesaleinternet.net [69.30.209.238]
16   180 ms   147 ms     *     lag-13.dist-1-3-a.clay1.mci.us.wholesaleinternet.net [69.30.235.5]
17   178 ms   167 ms   146 ms  204.12.236.138
Problems start at hop 14 which seems to be the server company on which gorgon is running. I might be completely wrong and I'm aware of doing a lot of speculations here but please take it as a starting point *if* you want trying to help me out.

p.s. it's not always that bad (when the ingame "ping-o-meter" shows ping times of ~2000) and I can play for several hours, but then I'm also cut off of the game for many hours. I'm also sure it's not a general oversea connection problem with my ISP since Gorgon is not the first game I'm playing on an us-server. It also doesn't happen on specific daytimes.

Thanks a lot in advance.
 

Luka Melehan

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Citan will see things faster if you use the ingame bug report system, even if its to direct him to a post here.
 

picommander

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I can do that but it should be clear that a conversation ingame is hardly possible when I'm under heavy lag. Talking about heavy lag is like typing a letter and waiting some minutes before I can see my own text (if at all). But meanwhile some other player told me that I'm not alone with this problem. Sooner or later I guess he needs to address this anyway.
 

picommander

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Stratics Veteran
Very kind, thank you. Meanwhile I pointed him to this forum post with the ingame report function, not sure if that went through. As an addition I did a lot of investigation to exclude the cause on my side, in particular if I have a general oversea connection problem. I found "some" other routes causing similar problems (packet loss, e.g. mmorpg.com => very bad, but only from ping results, common browsing isn't affected), but most us-servers work fine for me.

For the sake of completeness here are some typical ping results at one of the worse lag times:

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Antwort von 204.12.236.138: Bytes=32 Zeit=157ms TTL=46
Antwort von 204.12.236.138: Bytes=32 Zeit=153ms TTL=47
Antwort von 204.12.236.138: Bytes=32 Zeit=155ms TTL=45
Antwort von 204.12.236.138: Bytes=32 Zeit=155ms TTL=46
Antwort von 204.12.236.138: Bytes=32 Zeit=155ms TTL=45
Zeitberschreitung der Anforderung.
Antwort von 204.12.236.138: Bytes=32 Zeit=155ms TTL=48
Antwort von 204.12.236.138: Bytes=32 Zeit=156ms TTL=45
Zeitberschreitung der Anforderung.
Zeitberschreitung der Anforderung.
Antwort von 204.12.236.138: Bytes=32 Zeit=154ms TTL=48
Antwort von 204.12.236.138: Bytes=32 Zeit=155ms TTL=45
Antwort von 204.12.236.138: Bytes=32 Zeit=156ms TTL=45
Antwort von 204.12.236.138: Bytes=32 Zeit=155ms TTL=47
Antwort von 204.12.236.138: Bytes=32 Zeit=154ms TTL=47
Antwort von 204.12.236.138: Bytes=32 Zeit=156ms TTL=46
Antwort von 204.12.236.138: Bytes=32 Zeit=156ms TTL=46
Antwort von 204.12.236.138: Bytes=32 Zeit=155ms TTL=47
Antwort von 204.12.236.138: Bytes=32 Zeit=154ms TTL=48
Antwort von 204.12.236.138: Bytes=32 Zeit=154ms TTL=45
Antwort von 204.12.236.138: Bytes=32 Zeit=155ms TTL=47
Zeitberschreitung der Anforderung.
Antwort von 204.12.236.138: Bytes=32 Zeit=156ms TTL=45
Antwort von 204.12.236.138: Bytes=32 Zeit=155ms TTL=45
Antwort von 204.12.236.138: Bytes=32 Zeit=154ms TTL=45
Antwort von 204.12.236.138: Bytes=32 Zeit=153ms TTL=47
Antwort von 204.12.236.138: Bytes=32 Zeit=153ms TTL=47
Antwort von 204.12.236.138: Bytes=32 Zeit=155ms TTL=46
Antwort von 204.12.236.138: Bytes=32 Zeit=155ms TTL=46
Zeitberschreitung der Anforderung.
Zeitberschreitung der Anforderung.
Zeitberschreitung der Anforderung.
Antwort von 204.12.236.138: Bytes=32 Zeit=155ms TTL=47
Antwort von 204.12.236.138: Bytes=32 Zeit=155ms TTL=46
Antwort von 204.12.236.138: Bytes=32 Zeit=155ms TTL=45
Antwort von 204.12.236.138: Bytes=32 Zeit=155ms TTL=45
Antwort von 204.12.236.138: Bytes=32 Zeit=155ms TTL=46
Antwort von 204.12.236.138: Bytes=32 Zeit=154ms TTL=47
Antwort von 204.12.236.138: Bytes=32 Zeit=153ms TTL=48
Zeitberschreitung der Anforderung.

Ping-Statistik fr 204.12.236.138:
    Pakete: Gesendet = 40, Empfangen = 32, Verloren = 8
    (20% Verlust),
Ca. Zeitangaben in Millisek.:
    Minimum = 153ms, Maximum = 157ms, Mittelwert = 154ms
20% Packet loss here, and that's not the worst case (but already unplayable).
 
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