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[Slayvite]

I'm not sure if its as a result of the new updates or just coincidence but i use Vista and after the updates it now takes forever to get past the verifying screen. Even when i do get in the lag is allmost unplayable and i'm only training fishing. lost 5 lobster traps due to the fact my char is 'locked' in a half movement while the trap bobs and goes under.
Walking is 2 steps then 3-4 second freeze.
Tested my conn and its the same its been for the last year so no problems there.
Are you shunting UK through a different server now?

 

[Lady Storm]

Its no just you. and I live in the states. The patch made it very bad on lag entering game.

 

[Slayvite]

Hopefully it will be better in a month when i move permenantly to USA.
Tulsa Oklahoma and no more constant grey skies and rain

 

[Babble]

No problems on europa

 

[Slayvite]

I sourced the cause of the recent lag problems.
It's the new ships.
I logged in where no new ships were and everything was fine, Once i hit a part where a new ship was being drawn the lag started and didnt stop till i got away from the area and re-logged.

This is on Europa and im using a BT phoneline for broadband (2.5mb)
Tested it in various other places around Europa and it allways seems to be when you come close to a new ship, your stuck with lag till you re-log.

Can a Dev advise?

 

[Kojak]

here's 6gp, buy a new computer hehe

 

[Petra Fyde]

Have you tried a speed test to see how much of your 2.5mb you're actually getting?

 

[Slayvite]

Aye, not to sound pompus but i wouldn't be posting if i had an old crappy computer.
I play UO on an Alienware laptop that can run 3 instances of Counter strike at the same time. ie, very new very powerfull and very over-powered for 2d UO.
I use speed test all the time so i know it's not the line, it sit's at a steady 2.2-2.3mb.

I ask about the server local as once before they changed server from i think it was Germany to USA so UK was bounced thru about 5 servers before hitting the main game server and caused mass lag for peeps in UK.

 

[Kas Althume]

As far back as i can remember the server location for europa and drachenfels never changed. It has always been the same building in london. The only thing they change is the routing. Currently i get routed via sprintlink to the server. Sometimes it's colt.net but that one is a pain in the ass to route through.

No lag anywhere on europa currently, no matter where iam at. That's from 2 different locations with a different isp (work/home). Pinging below 40ms constantly from germany.

 

[Petra Fyde]

What you are remembering is EA's abortive attempt to use Sprintlink, who thought it was a good idea to route people from mainland Europe to London via Washington DC or New York giving them a ping of around 300 - 400.
It was finally ditched after half of the UK was cut off from a live and active server for 8 hours. My white wyrm went wild in Ankh, which is where I was when the Sprintlink server at the end of the route went down cutting us off. Re-taming it while surrounded by lich lords and rotting corpses was interesting to say the least.

 

[Kas Althume]

It is currently using sprintlink again.

1    localhost
2    17 ms    16 ms    15 ms  217.5.98.8
3    16 ms    16 ms    15 ms  217.237.152.106
4    23 ms    23 ms    22 ms  hh-ea4-i.HH.DE.NET.DTAG.DE [62.154.33.34]
5    24 ms    24 ms    24 ms  62.156.139.46
6    30 ms    29 ms    28 ms  sl-bb21-ams-14-0-0.sprintlink.net [213.206.129.4]               
7    38 ms    39 ms    37 ms  sl-bb23-lon-4-0-0.sprintlink.net [213.206.129.14]                    
8    38 ms    39 ms    37 ms  sl-gw29-lon-15-0-0.sprintlink.net [213.206.128.17]                 
9    39 ms    38 ms    40 ms  213.206.159.166
10    40 ms    38 ms    38 ms  fert04-ixe-lhr.ea.com [159.153.156.98]
11    38 ms    37 ms    38 ms  159.153.156.138

 

[Petra Fyde]

Yeah, but they've had a geography lesson since then (or set up better pairing/peering? Not sure of the proper term for it. )