Dear all,
After making a quite comprehensive post on the server / network lag thread (and to be honest I believe that a combination of factors is to blame, this includes network lag for people using congested links), I thought it'd be nice to collect some data to prove to SE that their bandwidth links can get congested.
Here are the instructions, meant to actually keep this test simple:
1) Find your server's IP from http://www.arrstatus.com/ (Hover over a server to find its IP)
2) From Windows, open up a command prompt (Use Run or search for cmd if you can't find it), and then type up the command:
tracert <server IP>
Where <server IP> is the complete IP of your server, no <> brackets or anything else. Example, for Balmung: tracert 199.91.189.30
3) Once the traceroute runs, save the results (You can use right click--->Mark and copy them in default Windows CMD)
4) Collect two sets of results - One for "prime time" in your area and one in a dead time (in the morning, after midnight, your choice, but a time when people aren't playing that much).
5) Paste results here, labeling them first for prime time or non-prime time to differentiate.
6) Compare your networking performance with other people from / to SE's NA/ EU datacenter.
7) Hopefully, apply more pressure to SE to -also- fix their networking providers issues, apart from any other underlying netcode issues.
I go first:
Code:
Non-prime time (23:50 BST - 01:50 EET)
Tracing route to 199.91.189.25 over a maximum of 30 hops
1 1 ms 1 ms 1 ms dsldevice.lan [192.168.1.1]
2 25 ms 24 ms 24 ms bbras-llu-kln-15L500.forthnet.gr [213.16.246.12]
3 25 ms 24 ms 25 ms 213.16.247.73
4 28 ms 28 ms 26 ms core-kln-12Be3.forthnet.gr [213.16.247.17]
5 25 ms 27 ms 28 ms te-3-2.car1.Sofia2.Level3.net [212.162.46.109]
6 65 ms 68 ms 65 ms 4.69.141.109
7 71 ms 76 ms 73 ms ae-10-10.ebr3.Frankfurt1.Level3.net [4.69.141.34]
8 66 ms 66 ms 66 ms ae-73-73.csw2.Frankfurt1.Level3.net [4.69.163.6]
9 66 ms 66 ms 65 ms ae-2-70.edge4.Frankfurt1.Level3.net [4.69.154.72]
10 77 ms 78 ms 78 ms 4.68.111.146
11 157 ms 156 ms 157 ms if-7-2.tcore1.FNM-Frankfurt.as6453.net [195.219.50.2]
12 156 ms 155 ms 156 ms if-5-2.tcore1.AV2-Amsterdam.as6453.net [195.219.194.13]
13 163 ms 160 ms 159 ms if-2-2.tcore2.AV2-Amsterdam.as6453.net [195.219.194.6]
14 173 ms 171 ms 172 ms if-7-2.tcore2.L78-London.as6453.net [80.231.152.14]
15 158 ms 159 ms 158 ms if-20-2.tcore2.NYY-NewYork.as6453.net [216.6.99.13]
16 156 ms 157 ms 155 ms if-2-2.tcore2.MTT-Montreal.as6453.net [64.86.226.13]
17 158 ms 158 ms 166 ms if-0-2.tcore1.MTT-Montreal.as6453.net [216.6.115.89]
18 159 ms 161 ms 157 ms if-5-2.tcore1.W6C-Montreal.as6453.net [64.86.31.6]
19 164 ms 164 ms 163 ms 66.198.96.50
20 166 ms 166 ms 170 ms 192.34.76.2
21 182 ms 183 ms 183 ms 199.91.189.234
22 166 ms 165 ms 165 ms 199.91.189.25
Trace complete.
Code:
Prime time (19:00 BST - 21:00 EET)
1 1 ms 2 ms 1 ms 192.168.1.1
2 23 ms 22 ms 22 ms bbras-llu-kln-15L500.forthnet.gr [213.16.246.12]
3 23 ms 22 ms 22 ms 213.16.247.73
4 25 ms 23 ms 23 ms core-kln-12Be3.forthnet.gr [213.16.247.17]
5 33 ms 35 ms 33 ms te-3-2.car1.Sofia2.Level3.net [212.162.46.109]
6 63 ms 63 ms 62 ms 4.69.141.109
7 63 ms 67 ms 74 ms ae-10-10.ebr3.Frankfurt1.Level3.net [4.69.141.34]
8 64 ms 63 ms 63 ms ae-93-93.csw4.Frankfurt1.Level3.net [4.69.163.14]
9 64 ms 63 ms 63 ms ae-4-90.edge4.Frankfurt1.Level3.net [4.69.154.200]
10 62 ms 61 ms 62 ms 4.68.111.146
11 158 ms 158 ms 159 ms if-4-2.tcore1.PVU-Paris.as6453.net [80.231.153.10]
12 298 ms 306 ms 319 ms if-2-2.tcore1.PYE-Paris.as6453.net [80.231.154.18]
13 332 ms 328 ms 325 ms if-5-2.tcore1.L78-London.as6453.net [80.231.130.1]
14 333 ms 316 ms 338 ms if-1-2.tcore2.L78-London.as6453.net [80.231.130.122]
15 314 ms 305 ms 303 ms if-20-2.tcore2.NYY-NewYork.as6453.net [216.6.99.13]
16 325 ms 328 ms 345 ms if-5-2.tcore2.MTT-Montreal.as6453.net [216.6.99.30]
17 332 ms 315 ms 308 ms if-0-2.tcore1.MTT-Montreal.as6453.net [216.6.115.89]
18 315 ms 329 ms 342 ms if-5-2.tcore1.W6C-Montreal.as6453.net [64.86.31.6]
19 319 ms 324 ms 317 ms 66.198.96.50
20 336 ms 327 ms 316 ms 192.34.76.2
21 316 ms 312 ms 305 ms 199.91.189.234
22 322 ms 318 ms 321 ms 199.91.189.25