Icharus wrote:Still getting problems here as well.. most days I get lag spikes of 3-4 seconds every 30 seconds or so, but last Sunday it was so bad I went LD about 10x in 3-4 hours.

Is there anything we can do about getting this fixed, routing around the trouble spot or otherwise correcting the problem? I know U.S. players are in the minority of the players on this server, but we still represent a significant % of the overall population! The game is borderline unplayable for us and has been for weeks! ><

Totally agree. You cannot effectively RvR in the evening as a US player. I've done crafting and a few other things, but RvR is simply not possible without rubberbanding, 1-2 second delays that happen randomly, etc.

I know it's not just me as I hear other people in the game complaining about it about the same time it happens to me. I just think in Europe that they are working on upgrading the servers/lines/whatever and they probably do it late-night their time, which is US prime-time.

I think I have only gone LD once, but I do have the ~30 second lag spikes regularly. I am playing in Cincinnati, OH.
I am not sure if it is worse in the evenings, but I will try to note that in the future. I do usually play in
the evenings and am only on during the day on weekends, so it makes sense.

Maybe it's time for a Uthgard server in America! I would help pay for it, that's for sure.

Here is my traceroute:

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Microsoft Windows [Version 6.1.7600]
Copyright (c) 2009 Microsoft Corporation.  All rights reserved.

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

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

  1     1 ms     3 ms     1 ms  WRT610N [192.168.1.1]
  2    85 ms    83 ms    89 ms  RO-ESR1-74-83-56-1.fuse.net [74.83.56.1]
  3    60 ms    64 ms    70 ms  10ge2-2.ws-osr2.zoomtown.com [216.68.7.205]
  4    79 ms     *        *     10ge1-4.sw2.core.fuse.net [216.68.7.204]
  5    58 ms    60 ms    58 ms  10ge0-1-0-0.core2.core.fuse.net [216.68.7.197]
  6    95 ms    95 ms   101 ms  66.216.1.149
  7   109 ms   106 ms   114 ms  ny111-ten2-1-chi-ten1-4.bboi.net [66.216.1.97]
  8   211 ms   157 ms   168 ms  r1.nyiix.init7.net [198.32.160.103]
  9   191 ms   194 ms   203 ms  r1lon1.core.init7.net [77.109.140.193]
 10   162 ms   171 ms   182 ms  r1ams2.core.init7.net [77.109.128.34]
 11   203 ms   205 ms   206 ms  r1fra2.core.init7.net [77.109.128.202]
 12   177 ms   189 ms   181 ms  r1fra1.core.init7.net [77.109.128.137]
 13   182 ms   207 ms   207 ms  gw-hetzner.init7.net [77.109.135.18]
 14   183 ms   184 ms   187 ms  hos-bb1.juniper2.fs.hetzner.de [213.239.240.243]

 15   211 ms   212 ms   215 ms  hos-tr3.ex3k11.rz13.hetzner.de [213.239.224.76]

 16   187 ms   192 ms   195 ms  uthgard.game-server.cc [88.198.56.21]

Trace complete.


I am not going to go into any detail however I will say that I am having and have been have the same exact issues as everyone else! I am going link-dead every 3 to 5 minutes. This is so unplayable not to mention frustrating

Has anyone come up with a solution yet?

For those of us in the U.S., if you switch over to AT&T UVerse the lag should clear up. A guildie and myself both switched and we no longer have any lag from the U.S. even during the evening.

The route also doesn't use Telia.net which is where the problem is I believe:

Target Name: uthgard.game-server.cc
IP: 88.198.56.21
Date/Time: 6/9/2011 9:38:19 PM

1 N/A
2 N/A
3 N/A
4 N/A 22 ms 22 ms 21 ms 21 ms N/A [99.134.77.16]
5 N/A 22 ms 22 ms 22 ms 21 ms N/A [99.134.77.10]
6 N/A 20 ms 21 ms 21 ms 22 ms 20 ms [72.157.44.250]
7 N/A 22 ms 23 ms 24 ms 23 ms 23 ms [12.81.56.74]
8 N/A 22 ms 23 ms 23 ms 22 ms 22 ms [12.81.56.59]
9 N/A 21 ms 22 ms 35 ms 22 ms 23 ms [74.175.192.94]
10 N/A 32 ms 32 ms 32 ms 33 ms 32 ms cr2.rlgnc.ip.att.net [12.123.152.110]
11 N/A 33 ms 33 ms 33 ms 33 ms 34 ms cr1.wswdc.ip.att.net [12.122.3.170]
12 N/A 31 ms 32 ms 31 ms 173 ms 31 ms wswdc02jt.ip.att.net [12.122.88.173]
13 N/A 33 ms 32 ms 33 ms 33 ms 75 ms xe-6-1-0.edge1.Washington4.level3.net [4.68.62.29]
14 N/A 32 ms 33 ms 33 ms 32 ms 33 ms vlan52.ebr2.Washington12.Level3.net [4.69.146.222]
15 N/A 33 ms 34 ms 33 ms 33 ms 33 ms ae-5-5.ebr2.Washington1.Level3.net [4.69.143.221]
16 N/A 113 ms 112 ms 113 ms 113 ms 112 ms ae-44-44.ebr2.Paris1.Level3.net [4.69.137.61]
17 N/A 117 ms 129 ms 117 ms 118 ms 129 ms ae-48-48.ebr1.Frankfurt1.Level3.net [4.69.143.145]
18 N/A 117 ms 117 ms 126 ms 130 ms 129 ms ae-71-71.csw2.Frankfurt1.Level3.net [4.69.140.6]
19 N/A 118 ms 118 ms 118 ms 118 ms 180 ms ae-2-79.edge3.Frankfurt1.Level3.net [4.68.23.75]
20 N/A 127 ms 128 ms 127 ms 126 ms 170 ms HETZNER-ONL.edge3.Frankfurt1.Level3.net [212.162.40.206]
21 N/A 131 ms 131 ms 132 ms 131 ms 132 ms hos-bb1.juniper2.fs.hetzner.de [213.239.240.243]
22 N/A 132 ms 132 ms 133 ms 132 ms 132 ms hos-tr3.ex3k11.rz13.hetzner.de [213.239.224.76]
23 N/A 132 ms 134 ms 131 ms 132 ms 131 ms uthgard.game-server.cc [88.198.56.21]

Ping statistics for uthgard.game-server.cc
Packets: Sent = 5, Received = 5, Lost = 0 (0.0%)
Round Trip Times: Minimum = 131ms, Maximum = 134ms, Average = 132ms