LAG!!!

[Orpheus]

Time to Load Page battlefield.php at 3:05 : 31.906748 seconds

Time to Load Page allianceMembers.php at 3:12 : 23.213176 seconds

Time to Load Page battlefield.php at 5:05 : 29.220120 seconds

[TheRook]

perhaps those who are having the longer times should try a tracert to the SGW servers?

Perhaps it could be based on location and routes your ISP shove you through...

TheRook

[GeneralChaos]

perhaps those who are having the longer times should try a tracert to the SGW servers?

Perhaps it could be based on location and routes your ISP shove you through...

TheRook

It took me 13 hops to reach the SGW server from the UK

I did not include the first 5 hops as the connections where all under 25ms, this is where the connection leaves the UK heading state side, the connection from here to there is fine.

6 25 ms 34 ms 25 ms ae-21-52.car1.London1.Level3.net [4.68.116.47]
7 26 ms 25 ms 26 ms xe-3-3.r01.londen03.uk.bb.gin.ntt.net [129.250.8
.137]
8 26 ms 25 ms 26 ms xe-2-3-0.r22.londen03.uk.bb.gin.ntt.net [129.250
.2.65]
9 95 ms 99 ms 100 ms as-0.r20.nycmny01.us.bb.gin.ntt.net [129.250.3.2
54]
10 180 ms 180 ms 179 ms as-2.r21.sttlwa01.us.bb.gin.ntt.net [129.250.3.1
90]
11 179 ms 184 ms 183 ms po-3.r00.sttlwa01.us.bb.gin.ntt.net [129.250.4.1
78]
12 179 ms 178 ms 183 ms ge-1-1.r00.sttlwa01.us.ce.gin.ntt.net [198.104.2
03.186]
13 190 ms 196 ms 186 ms host-65-61-192-161.in2net.com [65.61.192.161]

My guessing sttlwa is Seattle Washington, so it bounces from east to west coast then up to SGW servers, all in all, its a good round trip of at least 10-12 thousand miles, across 3 countries.

The issue lies elsewhere, it could be possible traffic on the networks/nodes on the state side as the day goes on, considering that its only 11am EST and earlier the further west u go, pre update my lag time on turn change was no more than 20-30 seconds max, making turn farming easy, now i cant even get the page to load within 90 seconds, by that time ive been hit multiply times......

[SG]

Hmm, no posting with the last five days. Perhaps this is a problem that not a lot of people have noticed? right now it is starting to act up again, and I think I have narrowed the reason down. It has nothing to do with the standard internet connection since I just ran a traceroute and was at about 150 ms.

What might be interesting is if we started posting the in game time, and how many peoples are on. I thin it is load issues on the server itself. Maybe even some throttling or whatever on there part.
It's feeling sluggish now at/with:

GameTime: Sep07 - 11:18.56
545 Players On!

[Chemeleon]

Microsoft Windows XP [Version 5.1.2600]
(C) Copyright 1985-2001 Microsoft Corp.

D:\Documents and Settings\Storm>tracert stargatewars.com

Tracing route to stargatewars.com [65.61.200.113]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 11 ms 3 ms 2 ms 192.168.2.1
2 12 ms 12 ms 9 ms cpe-98-148-176-1.socal.res.rr.com [98.148.176.1]

3 10 ms 8 ms 11 ms gig1-4pldlca1-swt1.socal.rr.com [76.167.11.9]
4 12 ms 10 ms 12 ms cpe-76-167-11-105.socal.res.rr.com [76.167.11.10
5]
5 20 ms 10 ms 13 ms 76.166.9.13
6 29 ms 12 ms 13 ms ae9.chswca1-rtr2.socal.rr.com [66.75.145.44]
7 23 ms 17 ms 14 ms ge-4-3-0.tustca1-rtr1.socal.rr.com [66.75.145.13
]
8 19 ms 19 ms 18 ms te-3-1.car1.Tustin1.Level3.net [4.71.104.149]
9 15 ms 16 ms 13 ms ae-2-3.bar1.Tustin1.Level3.net [4.69.132.218]
10 23 ms 17 ms 17 ms ae-6-6.ebr1.LosAngeles1.Level3.net [4.69.136.202
]
11 20 ms 18 ms 16 ms ae-71-71.csw2.LosAngeles1.Level3.net [4.69.137.6
]
12 16 ms 19 ms 15 ms ae-2-79.edge3.LosAngeles1.Level3.net [4.68.20.73
]
13 25 ms 25 ms 27 ms xe-9-1.r01.lsanca03.us.bb.gin.ntt.net [129.250.8
.181]
14 24 ms 27 ms 29 ms ae-2.r20.lsanca03.us.bb.gin.ntt.net [129.250.3.1
25]
15 29 ms 26 ms 26 ms as-0.r21.snjsca04.us.bb.gin.ntt.net [129.250.4.9
6]
16 26 ms 27 ms 26 ms ae-0.r20.snjsca04.us.bb.gin.ntt.net [129.250.2.9
6]
17 44 ms 46 ms 43 ms p64-0-0-0.r20.sttlwa01.us.bb.gin.ntt.net [129.25
0.4.22]
18 45 ms 43 ms 42 ms po-2.r00.sttlwa01.us.bb.gin.ntt.net [129.250.2.2
05]
19 43 ms 44 ms 44 ms ge-1-1.r00.sttlwa01.us.ce.gin.ntt.net [198.104.2
03.186]
20 62 ms 58 ms 59 ms host-65-61-192-161.in2net.com [65.61.192.161]
21 * * * Request timed out.
22 * * * Request timed out.
23 * * * Request timed out.
24 * * * Request timed out.
25 * * * Request timed out.
26 * * * Request timed out.
27 * * * Request timed out.
28 * * * Request timed out.
29 * * * Request timed out.
30 * * * Request timed out.

Trace complete.

D:\Documents and Settings\Storm>^A

D:\Documents and Settings\Storm>

[Forum]

thanks -those tracert really help...
am still on it

[Chemeleon]

ok so what did you find out?

[Chemeleon]

Another question.
as soon as I open the chat window, my processor jumps up over 50% and stays there.
I have a
AMD Athlon(tm) 64X2 Dual Core Processor 5600+
2.91 GHz, 2 GB RAM
etc
this computer is not the best, but fast enough for what I do
windows XP 2005 i think

how would I keep my processor from jumping up that high or do i not need to worry about it?

[Lore]

I also note that while the lag is horrible all the time, when I am being massed, its signifigantly worse, so much so that repairing is impossible because even with crit/nox and tabs I can't repair in the time allowed between hits. Also my return fire is limited to about 3 hits per minute or every 20 seconds at best, many times its just 2 hits per minute.