Problems with connection (R0) lag

[Ferrin]

Pray tell, what VPN service did you sign up for?

[Fawnlin]

https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/

[KMarsara]

I would suspect that SE is prioritizing packet traffic as it comes in to and out of their NA/EU Data Center out of desperation to remedy their capacity issues. (This is called "Traffic Shaping".) If you look at the Ping rates of all the NA/EU Servers you'll find a 100+ ms difference between the lower populated servers when compared to the higher populated servers. When servers are located in the same physical location on the same physical subnet they should have comparable Ping rates. Otherwise, if there would be a difference, the higher populated servers which are receiving more traffic should be the ones to have higher Ping rates.

For the fact that the higher populated servers have significantly lower Ping rates across the board shows that SE recently made some routing changes at their NA/EU Data Center to help alleviate congestion on the higher population servers, but at the cost of the lower population servers experiencing an increase in lag.

As a band-aid they are probably doing a combination of Packet Shaping, Congestion Control, and Traffic Control to deal with the Bandwidth Contention (oversubscription, or too many connections sharing the same limited network bandwidth) at their NA/EU Data Centers. It will probably remain this way until their infrastructure is upgraded in the coming days (or weeks).

Do you think hamachi vpn to my friends network can temp fix the issue?

[KMarsara]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4mdQ7gv7ptY short vid i took while in a instance. It wasn't lagging as bad as earlier and pretty much this is what it looks like (earlier things like this happend every 1 to 3 secs)

[b-batter]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4mdQ7gv7ptY short vid i took while in a instance. It wasn't lagging as bad as earlier and pretty much this is what it looks like (earlier things like this happend every 1 to 3 secs)

Yup, this is exactly what it is like for me.

[Shalirys]

Well, I can get in... and stay in... but goodness healing instances is a pain in the neck.

Here's to hoping it'll be fixed when everything is running smoothly.

[Fawnlin]

Checking back in. Everything has been close to how the game "should" be performing. I don't know how else to contribute at this point other than saying, "SE please figure out why Verizon FIOS users of the mid-atlantic US (and the other areas suffering this) are experiencing this and fix it right away"! I really don't want to have to pay more money on top of my soon-to-come monthly fee to play!

[Hokies]

I'm elated, but somewhat dismayed to see people having the same issue I am. I'm also in the Northern Virgina area with Verizon FIOS (50/25). The issue seems more severe with any Duty Finder instance. At times, the action on my screen pauses for 20+ seconds! This started on 8/25 or 8/26, but in phase 4 beta everything was smooth as silk.

Playing a healer is pretty much out of the question, and a tank is not much better. Even my damage output as DD is greatly diminished because I'll be hitting mobs that are still alive on my screen that have long since been dead. This is the only game I have issues with. All other online games run great.

I love this game, but the lag is killing it for me because I can't be a reliable player for anything! Knowing Verizon, they won't do jack about it so it's up to SE. That doesn't exactly make me feel great. All we can do is continue to raise awareness on the issue.

[Cantebury]

well ive done a bunch of trace routes to the server hubs from my northern va fios connection, i saw some packet loss but nothing constant enough to make me believe there is a problem. ive monitored my ping to a google server to see if it was my end of the connection messing up, but it was solid for about 2 hours while the game was lagging. the game is pretty much unplayable for me as a healer right now. its constant freezing still every 10 seconds

i made a character on an EU server and sat in town, i didnt notice it at all there. I'm not sure what the problem is, but i dont really know how to bring this to their attention. they have other stuff to deal with i guess. i just dont know what changed from saturday and sunday, it was playing great. i even made a comment to someone about how i havent experienced lag one time

[KMarsara]

Hopefully new servers will fix something. <sigh> why didnt they just put the servers in texas or chicago.