Regarding Reports on Recent Connection Problems with the NA Data Center

[MidnightWonko]

So after seeing someone else using WinMTR, I decided to check it out as well.



I took this over the course of only just a few minutes around 5:55pm Pacific. Notably, it appears that the vast majority of my packets lost are at 204.2.229.242.

EDIT:



The same, except I'd been running it nonstop for about 30 minutes since around 5:55pm Pacific.

I dunno if that helps or not.

EDIT 2: Now at nearly 7:40pm, there's a 12% loss at hop 9, 18% loss at hop 13, and 10% loss at the last hop. That's very discouraging.

[Callinon]

I have not experienced much lag in the last two nights. Anyone else?

I'm at 200ms latency right now.

[Kerwin]

Wooohhh boooyyy.. Prime time yet again... NTT is still a pile of junk! Game is unplayable! The packet loss is terrible!




And another one, even worse....

[MizunoNeko]

I have not experienced much lag in the last two nights. Anyone else?

I did not have as much lag tonight as I have this past week. Yesterday was not good at all, but not as awful as it was all week.

[XenoCranel]

Yeah, nevermind... Lag was horrible last night lol.. Wishful thinking.

[Ladon]

So after seeing someone else using WinMTR, I decided to check it out as well.



I took this over the course of only just a few minutes around 5:55pm Pacific. Notably, it appears that the vast majority of my packets lost are at 204.2.229.242.

EDIT:



The same, except I'd been running it nonstop for about 30 minutes since around 5:55pm Pacific.

I dunno if that helps or not.

EDIT 2: Now at nearly 7:40pm, there's a 12% loss at hop 9, 18% loss at hop 13, and 10% loss at the last hop. That's very discouraging.

Just curious if you are actually seeing major issues in game. One of my static members sees a similar output as you and does not have issues in game. I suspect 204.2.229.242 is an inside edge device and there is likely a stateful firewall in front that is configured to drop ICMP packets under certain conditions, so issues starting here during a trace may not necessarily indicate an actual issue. Your packet loss numbers are pretty clean otherwise as you shouldn't notice any major issues with a 1-3% loss over the 2000 packets you had sent.

[lordcook]

ISP: Cox Cable, California
still massive lag/teleporting during primetime 6-10pm pacific at least (I cant play much later)

[MidnightWonko]

Just curious if you are actually seeing major issues in game. One of my static members sees a similar output as you and does not have issues in game. I suspect 204.2.229.242 is an inside edge device and there is likely a stateful firewall in front that is configured to drop ICMP packets under certain conditions, so issues starting here during a trace may not necessarily indicate an actual issue. Your packet loss numbers are pretty clean otherwise as you shouldn't notice any major issues with a 1-3% loss over the 2000 packets you had sent.

Hard to say, really; with the hideously bad packet loss rate recently, my motivation to play this game has tanked pretty hard. I'll try testing a bit more later on. Hopefully, you're right on that (and I wouldn't doubt it if it's just that one node).

[drebbe]

Just curious if you are actually seeing major issues in game. One of my static members sees a similar output as you and does not have issues in game. I suspect 204.2.229.242 is an inside edge device and there is likely a stateful firewall in front that is configured to drop ICMP packets under certain conditions, so issues starting here during a trace may not necessarily indicate an actual issue. Your packet loss numbers are pretty clean otherwise as you shouldn't notice any major issues with a 1-3% loss over the 2000 packets you had sent.

some people are more sensitive to the rubber banding and lag issue then others. I can confirm when I get rubber banding / lag the packet loss always there and the latency does tend to increase a bit. I'm probably more sensitive to it due to having 20-30ms latency before the server move so I know what a "perfect" connection feels like.

[Kerwin]

What can I do? (That I have not already done.) It keeps happening. Every night during prime time. It's not getting any better...