Request for information: ISPs and P2P throttling

[Calyanare]

Verizon FIOS
Tampa, FL
Ever since patch 2.1, I get lag spikes in instances where everything freezes for a second or two and then fast-forwards to catch up. How often these lag spikes occur varies a bit, some instances will only have one or two lag spikes the entire duration, but just now Ultima's Bane was completely unplayable. In the overworld I don't notice any similar sorts of lag, but my crafting macros that worked fine before the patch get a constant "unable to use ability at this time" (or whatever the error message is) indicating that there is indeed enough lag to cause my /wait to not be long enough about half the time.

[Qubano]

Name of ISP - Time Warner
Location - Western side of Los Angeles Area California
Time it occurs - When does it stop? ALWAYS OCCURS !!!!!!!
Reference number- Call them yourselves i get no where with them....... 800-892-4357
BTW I'm not far from your building here.... to give you an idea of location
PLEASE FIX YOUR ISSUES SE.....

[Ahrum]

Verizon FIOS
Tampa, FL
Ever since patch 2.1, I get lag spikes in instances where everything freezes for a second or two and then fast-forwards to catch up. How often these lag spikes occur varies a bit, some instances will only have one or two lag spikes the entire duration, but just now Ultima's Bane was completely unplayable. In the overworld I don't notice any similar sorts of lag, but my crafting macros that worked fine before the patch get a constant "unable to use ability at this time" (or whatever the error message is) indicating that there is indeed enough lag to cause my /wait to not be long enough about half the time.

This exact situation for me as well.

Verizon FIOS
Chester, VA

Started today.

[YukiKoneko]

A Laggy Realm Reborn...

ISP: Verizon FiOS
Location: Maryland, USA
Time: Always

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|                                      WinMTR statistics                                   |
|                       Host              -   %  | Sent | Recv | Best | Avrg | Wrst | Last |
|------------------------------------------------|------|------|------|------|------|------|
|          Wireless_Broadband_Router.home -    0 | 1504 | 1504 |    0 |    0 |    2 |    0 |
|    L100.BLTMMD-VFTTP-52.verizon-gni.net -    0 | 1504 | 1504 |    4 |    7 |   94 |    7 |
|  G0-7-2-4.BLTMMD-LCR-21.verizon-gni.net -    1 | 1500 | 1499 |    5 |    9 |   28 |    9 |
|  so-1-1-0-0.RES-BB-RTR1.verizon-gni.net -    0 | 1504 | 1504 |    7 |   14 |  103 |    9 |
|           0.xe-2-0-1.BR1.IAD8.ALTER.NET -    3 | 1377 | 1345 |    0 |   10 |   67 |    9 |
|    ae17.edge1.washingtondc12.level3.net -    2 | 1403 | 1377 |    0 |   37 |   98 |   34 |
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|       ae-81-81.csw3.NewYork1.Level3.net -    1 | 1500 | 1499 |   30 |   39 |   56 |   40 |
|       ae-82-82.ebr2.NewYork1.Level3.net -    0 | 1504 | 1504 |   31 |   39 |   50 |   41 |
|        ae-5-5.car1.Montreal2.Level3.net -    0 | 1504 | 1504 |   32 |   65 |  454 |   36 |
|      ae-11-11.car2.Montreal2.Level3.net -   13 |  993 |  865 |   20 |   39 |  242 |   22 |
|   ORMUCO-COMM.car2.Montreal2.Level3.net -    0 | 1504 | 1504 |   33 |   40 |   51 |   39 |
|                            192.34.76.10 -    3 | 1359 | 1322 |   35 |   43 |  139 |   40 |
|                          199.91.189.242 -    3 | 1357 | 1320 |   35 |   39 |   88 |   38 |
|                           199.91.189.25 -    3 | 1353 | 1315 |   35 |   39 |   49 |   38 |
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   WinMTR v0.92 GPL V2 by Appnor MSP - Fully Managed Hosting & Cloud Provider

[LeonKaiser]

Verizon FIOS
Tampa, FL
Ever since patch 2.1, I get lag spikes in instances where everything freezes for a second or two and then fast-forwards to catch up. How often these lag spikes occur varies a bit, some instances will only have one or two lag spikes the entire duration, but just now Ultima's Bane was completely unplayable. In the overworld I don't notice any similar sorts of lag, but my crafting macros that worked fine before the patch get a constant "unable to use ability at this time" (or whatever the error message is) indicating that there is indeed enough lag to cause my /wait to not be long enough about half the time.

Exactly, same here.

Verizon FIOS
Tampa, FL

I noticed it yesterday. I could be anywhere in the game and I'd say roughly every 30 seconds ~ 4 minutes, there would be a moment where characters/npc's/monsters what have you, freeze with their current action. For example, standing in a town I would see a character walk forward and if they were below a hill they would through the ground, above and they would walk in mid air. 2~3 seconds later they would return to their normal spot. Using a skill sometimes would take 2~3s to activate.

Super happy it's not just me having these issues. I ran different tests for the past hour to find that my average ping was 32 and sat there dumbfounded as my character would freeze for a few seconds at random moments.

[Izzy]

Same for me.

Verizon FIOS
New York, NY

|------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
|                                      WinMTR statistics                                   |
|                       Host              -   %  | Sent | Recv | Best | Avrg | Wrst | Last |
|------------------------------------------------|------|------|------|------|------|------|
|               Wireless_Broadband_Router -    0 |  400 |  400 |    0 |    0 |    3 |    0 |
|   L100.NYCMNY-VFTTP-173.verizon-gni.net -    0 |  400 |  400 |    3 |    6 |  307 |    4 |
| G0-13-2-5.NYCMNY-LCR-21.verizon-gni.net -    0 |  400 |  400 |    5 |    8 |   34 |    8 |
|so-5-0-0-0.NY325-BB-RTR2.verizon-gni.net -    0 |  400 |  400 |    5 |    9 |  150 |    6 |
|           0.xe-9-0-0.BR3.NYC4.ALTER.NET -    0 |  400 |  400 |    5 |    8 |   74 |    6 |
|      te-7-3-0.edge2.NewYork2.level3.net -    0 |  400 |  400 |    5 |    9 |   75 |    6 |
|         vlan52.ebr2.NewYork2.Level3.net -    0 |  400 |  400 |   14 |   15 |   24 |   15 |
|       ae-47-47.ebr2.NewYork1.Level3.net -    0 |  400 |  400 |   13 |   14 |   18 |   15 |
|        ae-5-5.car1.Montreal2.Level3.net -    0 |  400 |  400 |   14 |   39 |  340 |   15 |
|      ae-11-11.car2.Montreal2.Level3.net -    3 |  364 |  355 |   13 |   31 |  218 |  125 |
|   ORMUCO-COMM.car2.Montreal2.Level3.net -    0 |  400 |  400 |   13 |   14 |   27 |   14 |
|                            192.34.76.10 -    2 |  384 |  380 |   24 |   28 |   82 |   27 |
|                          199.91.189.242 -    2 |  384 |  380 |   30 |   32 |   99 |   33 |
|                           199.91.189.21 -    1 |  396 |  395 |   30 |   31 |   38 |   32 |
|________________________________________________|______|______|______|______|______|______|
   WinMTR v0.92 GPL V2 by Appnor MSP - Fully Managed Hosting & Cloud Provider

[Xerifot]

Same thing for me. It started about end of October through all the way to December, went away for about 3 weeks, and now it's back.

Three
UK (London)
3 pm -> Midnight (Three's "throttling" time)

[neumilo]

Verizon Fios
Brooklyn, NY, USA
Since Dec. 24 patch

[remidi]

I have been getting lag spikes for 2 days now. I can not tank endgame content. I have dealt with this same issue with WoW(took them a month to fix it.....) and just like them when you do a traceroute its the last hop towards your server. Please fix this ASAP. It is not my ISP or my PC.

Win 8.1
I72600k
680GTX
Vertex3
Verizon FIOS 75/50

I am still using my first month and I will not be setting up a subscription if this continues.
Did a complete OS install and tried using my HDD instead of my SSD. The problem is still there and at the moment its really bad.

[JxinTia]

Verizon FIOS
Tampa, FL
Ever since patch 2.1, I get lag spikes in instances where everything freezes for a second or two and then fast-forwards to catch up. How often these lag spikes occur varies a bit, some instances will only have one or two lag spikes the entire duration, but just now Ultima's Bane was completely unplayable. In the overworld I don't notice any similar sorts of lag, but my crafting macros that worked fine before the patch get a constant "unable to use ability at this time" (or whatever the error message is) indicating that there is indeed enough lag to cause my /wait to not be long enough about half the time.

This exact issue is happening with me as well. I'm constantly seeing players and NPC monsters freeze in place for an instant and then 'fast forward' to catch up. It's made several high level dungeon runs very frustrating as I will be clearly out of an AoE on my screen but still hit with the damage from the enemy.

- Verizon Fios
- Tampa, FL, USA
- Problem has been occurring since Patch 2.1