Ping higher for US Data center than other centers (picture of test results)

Same issue from California, also using TWC, high response times from the same routers. Seems to be a problem with them.

I've been having some intermittent lag issues lately (rubberbanding, general lag, etc), and I can't recall things ever being like this before the most recent maintenance (9/16 12:00-2:00 AM PST). It could just be a coincidence though, since I see some activity on the other machines connected to the router.

As for the ping, since I began checking, it's always seemed to be, at best, roughly equal to the Japanese servers, but never obviously better as you'd expect.

I don't know much about servers and whatnot, but given that they just monkeyed with them last night, I wouldn't rule out that they did something to cause this (if indeed your issues just appeared today).

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Originally Posted by Zholi

I've been having some intermittent lag issues lately (rubberbanding, general lag, etc), and I can't recall things ever being like this before the most recent maintenance (9/16 12:00-2:00 AM PST). It could just be a coincidence though, since I see some activity on the other machines connected to the router.

As for the ping, since I began checking, it's always seemed to be, at best, roughly equal to the Japanese servers, but never obviously better as you'd expect.

I don't know much about servers and whatnot, but given that they just monkeyed with them last night, I wouldn't rule out that they did something to cause this (if indeed your issues just appeared today).

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Definitely just appeared today. I did Ultima and all those final story mission fights last night with no hassle.

I wrote a really good article on testing your internet connection that wont fit.

Anyway here is your problem:
9 259 ms 246 ms 248 ms if-2-2.tcore1.LVW-LosAngeles.as6453.net [66.110.59.1]

That router is choking.

To test your connection tracert to your destination and then ping a hop close to you.
eg ping -n 100 <close hop>

You should get low pings and no packet loss.

Pinging elswher will only tell you there is a problem. You probably already know that.

Now I'm pinging 114ms to that US server, and tracert shows hop 9+ at approximately 110ms for all values.

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Originally Posted by Zholi

Now I'm pinging 114ms to that US server, and tracert shows hop 9+ at approximately 110ms for all values.

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Same exact results... You don't by chance live near 90005 zip code? But yeah, I would have to assume this is a local problem...

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Originally Posted by Devilray

Same exact results... You don't by chance live near 90005 zip code? But yeah, I would have to assume this is a local problem...

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It was fine this morning, but now the ping has shot back up to 260ms during prime time /sigh. I can't play during prime time from the looks of it because of something in my area.

F that, when do we EURO's get actual EU-servers... even our ping is FAR better to the JP servers than to the NA/Canada one.. pathetic! Fancy seeing "connection excellent" and logging it to see 5 sec lag on skill execution.