Request for information: ISPs and P2P throttling

[Karthes]

Cox Communications
Kansas/USA
Always

[Chryzo]

Just for kicks:

Last night we went to Amdapor with the guild. At one point, i kept launching spells and everything was frozen on my side, mob not moving, mana not going down, etc... I was at the same time on TS with the mates. They told me the mobs died. So since I could, I started launching blizzards 2 in chains... and guess what:
* They could see them and they could even tell me how far was my mana or my life but I could not.
* And they could tell when I was casting and when I was not pretty much in real time.
* The server ended up DCing me though it could actually receive information from me.

So, the problem does not seem to be, at least in my case from ME to SE, but from SE to ME. Which brings me back to a problem on SE's end. Maybe not enough outgoing throughput ? OR it means my firewall and box in a way or other started dropping SE incoming packets. Which I doubt, but I will ask my ISP nonetheless for info. They don't throttle.

Also, the same thing kinda happened with the chat server. I could not see the discussion, but I could play the game pretty well. Did not think of trying to send a message though.

[Mezolitik]

- BT
- England
- 1800 - 2200

I'm only trying to download the game at present. Speed fell from 1.30mb/s to 0.23mb/s after 6pm. Back to 1.30mb/s after 10pm.

My actual 'normal' speed is 11mb/s. Go figure.

[Saisya]

- Midcontinent Communications
- USA (South Dakota)
- Randomly, though usually after a maintenance

[Jxb1a]

Time Warner Cable
Greater Los Angeles County, California
Always, more apparent at night at around 7pm pacific time

[dascorp]

Name of ISP: ATT Sbc Global

USA... North Hollywood, CA....

Tracing route to 199.91.189.57 over a maximum of 30 hops

1 3 ms 1 ms 1 ms home [192.168.1.254]
2 13 ms 13 ms 13 ms bras13-l0.lsanca.sbcglobal.net [151.164.186.13]

3 11 ms 11 ms 17 ms 12.83.97.13
4 72 ms 43 ms 92 ms 12.122.84.69
5 47 ms 46 ms 46 ms ix-15-0.tcore1.LVW-LosAngeles.as6453.net [66.110.59.41]
6 93 ms 92 ms 92 ms if-3-2.tcore1.PDI-PaloAlto.as6453.net [66.198.127.25]
7 93 ms 91 ms 98 ms if-2-2.tcore2.PDI-PaloAlto.as6453.net [66.198.127.2]
8 91 ms 90 ms 90 ms if-11-3.tcore2.CT8-Chicago.as6453.net [66.198.144.58]
9 91 ms 90 ms 90 ms if-3-2.tcore1.W6C-Montreal.as6453.net [66.198.96.45]
10 91 ms 92 ms 92 ms 66.198.96.50
11 92 ms 90 ms 92 ms 192.34.76.2
12 92 ms 92 ms 92 ms 199.91.189.234
13 112 ms 90 ms 90 ms 199.91.189.57

Trace complete.

[Triplicus]

Name of ISP: Time Warner Cable
Country of Residence: United States (Hawaii)
When does the problem occur: usually from afternoon to late night, everyday

[Yochanan]

Hi all i'm just confused how a game that sends receives something like 150Kb a second can get throttled!?

It's all over loaded servers and SE's cheap ass putting the data centre in the cheapest place they could find all for the lowest cost don't blame your isp's for SE's retarded ways and devotion to being as cheap as possible while milking a franchise for all they can get.

[Statishido]

Name of ISP: Verizon
Location: Florida (US)
I can not play at all without Lag now. Doesn't matter the day or night. Im spending money on a game that I haven't been able to play for two weeks. Seriously SE....WTF

Tracing route to 199.91.189.40 over a maximum of 30 hops

1 2 ms 1 ms 7 ms Wireless_Broadband_Router.home [192.168.1.1]
2 7 ms 13 ms 10 ms L100.TAMPFL-VFTTP-83.verizon-gni.net [71.251.125
.1]
3 8 ms 7 ms 8 ms G0-5-5-6.TAMPFL-LCR-21.verizon-gni.net [130.81.1
10.12]
4 11 ms 8 ms 9 ms so-2-0-0-0.TPA01-BB-RTR1-verizon-gni.net [130.81
.28.212]
5 38 ms 37 ms 40 ms 0.ae5.XL1.IAD8.ALTER.NET [152.63.8.121]
6 46 ms 42 ms 43 ms 0.xe-8-3-0.GW9.IAD8.ALTER.NET [152.63.36.14]
7 47 ms 37 ms 80 ms tinet-gw.customer.alter.net [152.179.50.30]
8 64 ms 58 ms 57 ms xe-4-0-0.mtl10.ip4.tinet.net [141.136.108.190]
9 60 ms 60 ms 60 ms ormuco-gw.ip4.tinet.net [216.221.156.110]
10 59 ms 55 ms 55 ms 192.34.76.2
11 65 ms 61 ms 116 ms 199.91.189.234
12 63 ms 69 ms 63 ms 199.91.189.40

Trace complete.

C:\Users\stat>

Just got off the phone with Verizon and they told me what I already knew and that they are not throttling my account for any reason and that any problem that I am experiencing is out of their control, and that I need to contact SE to get it fixed. Has anyone figured out a workout that does force us to pay more money in order to play a game we are already paying to play?

[BunnyChain]

Seems like it's not a problem with our ISPs but theirs or rather the ones in Canada / closer to the servers.