Request for information: ISPs and P2P throttling

[CodeHavoc]

Time Warner Cable, New York
Players 2-3 seconds behind and slight FPS tearing

[Krasus]

Comcast
USA (TN)
When player activity is high everything freezes in place anywhere from 1 - 10 secs at a time, sometimes back to back, then fast forwards to catch up
no reference number, typical ISP support (poor)

[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.

[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.

[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.

[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.....

[YukiKoneko]

A Laggy Realm Reborn...

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

|------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
|                                      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 |
|vl-3602-ve-226.ebr2.Washington12.Level3.net - 1 | 1493 | 1490 |   30 |   38 |   52 |   40 |
|                             4.69.201.61 -    1 | 1500 | 1499 |   31 |   39 |   49 |   39 |
|       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

[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)