Yep two weeks for me now things have been bad/unplayable.

I also did what some of you have already done; disabled my NIC, went direct to modem bypassing my wireless router, created a new wireless network. I even d/l 'ed a ping app to my wi-fi only iPad and it returned the same "request timed out" at exact intervals as my PC.

This rules out my PC, NIC, modem, router and my iPad

I have been pinging the last three hops plus the game server for 3 hours today; the only IP to return multiple time out requests consecutively (usually between 10-14 lines) is uthgard.game-server.cc ( 88.198.56.21 ).

Baffling how most are fine while playing while some of us suffer mass latency or mass LD's.

My plan at this point is to not login at all until I see a 24 hour window where there are zero, or very limited time out requests.

Time to free up mass space on the PVR I guess !!

I´m from Brazil I have been getting the same problems. LD every 5 minutes. My conection is stable and working perfectly with everything else.
I did everything I could on the router (bypassing included), cable modem, drivers, etc.

Same here, montreal/quebec/canada (tabarnac),
I wasnt playing for 2 weeks so i cant tell like you said if its been that long, but i coudnt play at all this weekend, LD each 1 to 10 min , sometimes i could play for 20min max..

But any other daoc server is working fine none stop...

And my rate on pingtest.net is no loss at all, and 9ms ping, and supremely fast connexion...

CONSPIRATION AGAINST CANADIANS !!!!

Here is my tracert i sent my isp asking them to route me around the bad spots.

C:\Users\jalore>tracert uthgard.game-server.cc

Tracing route to uthgard.game-server.cc [88.198.56.21]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 19 ms 7 ms 7 ms 10.20.114.1
2 11 ms 11 ms 11 ms 172.30.8.113
3 11 ms 11 ms 9 ms 172.30.9.165
4 10 ms 11 ms 11 ms 172.30.9.170
5 15 ms 15 ms 15 ms 12.116.27.181
6 19 ms 16 ms 18 ms cr84.cgcil.ip.att.net [12.122.132.62]
7 17 ms 16 ms 16 ms cr2.cgcil.ip.att.net [12.123.7.250]
8 34 ms 15 ms 15 ms cgcil02jt.ip.att.net [12.122.81.21]
9 16 ms 17 ms 15 ms 192.205.37.150
10 16 ms 15 ms 15 ms vlan52.ebr2.Chicago2.Level3.net [4.69.138.190]
11 34 ms 33 ms 34 ms ae-6-6.ebr2.Washington12.Level3.net [4.69.148.14
5]
12 35 ms 35 ms 35 ms ae-5-5.ebr2.Washington1.Level3.net [4.69.143.221
]
13 127 ms 125 ms 123 ms ae-42-42.ebr2.Frankfurt1.Level3.net [4.69.137.53
]
14 129 ms 126 ms 127 ms ae-72-72.csw2.Frankfurt1.Level3.net [4.69.140.22
]
15 126 ms 122 ms 124 ms ae-2-79.edge3.Frankfurt1.Level3.net [4.68.23.75]

16 127 ms 125 ms 125 ms HETZNER-ONL.edge3.Frankfurt1.Level3.net [212.162
.40.206]
17 171 ms 130 ms 129 ms hos-bb1.juniper1.fs.hetzner.de [213.239.240.242]

18 131 ms 130 ms 129 ms hos-tr1.ex3k11.rz13.hetzner.de [213.239.224.12]

19 129 ms 129 ms 129 ms uthgard.game-server.cc [88.198.56.21]

Trace complete.





And here is my sip Mediacom responce.

Unfortunately, once it leaves our servers we do not have any control over the path that it takes. I do show where the latency starts taking effect after hitting the frankfurt1.level3.net but again do not have any control over that.

laymen s terms once your beyond our servers your on your own lmao.

Hi all just wanted to post and say I am also having this lag problem for the last few weeks. Lag meter consistantally goes from green to red with no problems on other sites or programs, hopefully someone can look into this US east coast here, would be great to play without watching my groups ghost all over the place hehe.

When i started here about a year ago, I had all green lag 24/7. occasional LD or stutters but 9 times out of 10 it was live like feeling regarding lag.

everyone having this lag problem seems to have mysteriously started having it around the same time yet they are all told by Nixian that it's their connection that has been the same connection they have always been on in 80%+ of the cases.

Nixian is just a mod trying to do the best he can I assume. Sad thing is, the staff here doesn't seem to care.

If it's a matter of the server being changed or not powerful enough to save a few bucks a month why not "gift" reskins for donations? If the reason legendary skins were taken out is due to lag why not "gift" /level 20 for donations towards a better server?

How about gifting a choice of one taj 1 or 2 equipment to whoever donated $40 or more every month or even a raffle people are entered into for donating anything every month?

How many people are gonna still be here when a better alternative finally comes around if they can't even play? Even if say guild wars 2 is just "alright" it would still be worth playing over something i can't even connect to.

We need a better server and motivation to donate towards this better server.

If it was a server propblem EVERYONE would have problems. As the tracers clearly show these are provoder problems.

Full Moon wrote:if it's a matter of the server being changed or not powerful enough to save a few bucks a month why not "gift" reskins for donations? If the reason legendary skins were taken out is due to lag why not "gift" /level 20 for donations towards a better server?

How about gifting a choice of one taj 1 or 2 equipment to whoever donated $40 or more every month or even a raffle people are entered into for donating anything every month?

This is forbidden by DOL.

Jarysa wrote:If it was a server propblem EVERYONE would have problems. As the tracers clearly show these are provoder problems.

This is forbidden by DOL.

Yes but something has changed where CERTAIN providers are being dropped from the server. This has nothing to do with our providers as EVERYTHING but Uthgard seems to work fine. Also everyones reasoning for it being a server related issue is because the majority of us are on the exact same internet line we had when Uthgard played fine. Perhaps for whatever reason the server is rejecting our connections after a set period of time? Why does everyone keep insisting this is the ISP's fault? All of a sudden every ISP has it out for Uthgard and doesn't want us playing?

As for donations being forbidden by DOL, I am sure people have donated that then went in game and won an item through an event, I don't see why it would be hard to come up with a way of justifying someone receiving and item after donating. There are plenty of ways around that. Perhaps have events that only people who donated can take part of where everyone receives an item?

Today was the first day in 2+ weeks that I could actually play without an LD within 15 minutes of logging in.

I played 4 hours without one single LD and barely any bad latency. I hope this is permanent or at least indefinite.

A new tracert today shows 2 new hops just before the hetzner servers, and 3 hops with replaced/changed domain IP's, all far beyond my ISP server (Rogers).

While it may not be the game server, it is not people's ISP directly. It seems to be, based on 2 weeks of mass pinging and tracert, the servers in Europe from when I am at (Toronto).

Glad I can play again and hope the many others who have posted see better connects also.

You know what's f'ing weird? SAME THING, late last night and today can play 100% no problems. Weird I knew it wasn't rogers man I get 30mb down now compared to my like 12 before. If anyone is looking to an alternative with unlimited bandwidth I am on Teksavvy now, I had doubts but a few friends had Teksavvy and ok'd them. They use the rogers lines similar to those private companies that use bell's DSL lines. Anyhow for 60 bucks unlimited bandwidth and fast ass speed

Forgot to mention, you have to have your own modem and router, but they have DSL (bell's lines) and Cable unlimited bandwidth service for Canada if you are within their area.

Don't mean to advertise or anything but if you are like me getting dinged with a over usage charge from rogers and bell cause you download a lot (hehe) it's a great alternative, I was on bell and starting 2011 bell is now charging $60 if you go over, I was just paying $30 to go over as much as I wanted in 2010, but double that, hell nah. ^^ That's the entire monthly fee on the new ISP :S

After one week of intense playing and no problems whatsoever, today i´m back to the LDs. 1 every 3 minutes, anyone else?
PS.: I´m in Brazil.

LD's are back

Hops have changed again.

Lame.

Sadly yes they are back. Sigh D: