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| Thread ID: 75587 | 2007-01-04 05:07:00 | Broadband ISP selection | Rugrats (6953) | Press F1 |
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| 512512 | 2007-01-04 05:07:00 | I've been connected with Orcon for the past couple of years, I'm looking at changing ISP because of persistent connection issues, particularly to World of Warcraft (yes, I'm a WoW addict and I'm changing ISP's primarily because of that. Sad, I know, but spare me the moral judgements. :) So, this question goes to the WoW'rs in the audience - which ISP do you use, and do they give you satisfactory performance in WoW? (For reference, I'll have several days a month where WoW is *completely* unplayable due to latency, even standing still in an isolated area I'll be upwards of 1000ms latency.) |
Rugrats (6953) | ||
| 512513 | 2007-01-04 08:32:00 | There could be a couple of issue surrounding this problem that you are having . Where is the game server held . You must remember that you data has to travel to the server and then back again before you can preform any action . If the server is held within NZ and you are still having lagging issues then I would kill your firewall and any other application that use the net and see if that improves things . If there is no resolution then I would suggest changing servers . As U can probably tell I am not a War Craft Player, but I have had my issues with Americas Army and major lagging issues . So to help you we need a bit more information . 1 . Where is the server held 2 . If you ping the Server IP address what sort of time do you get 3 . When you are experiencing lagging within the game exit and do a broadband test and post what you results are . Keep in mind that you need to preform this test in the same country that the server is held in . Any ways let me know how you get on . :rolleyes: |
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| 512514 | 2007-01-04 10:35:00 | 1: The server is in California, USA. 2: I can tracert to the server provider while I'm having these latency issues, and I'll get ~250-300ms ping (while I'm getting upwards of 1k latency in the game). 3: I haven't actually done a broadband test while I'm experiencing in-game issues, but my seat-of-the-pants feeling is that most normal traffic is fine (I've been able to surf in the background, have TeamSpeak or Pandora going, etc.). This issue has happened before, and when I ticketed it they (Orcon) told me they were having UDP traffic issues with one of their upstream providers. |
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| 512515 | 2007-01-04 11:03:00 | Just tested, using dslreports.com speed test served from SF, CA, I got 569 Kb/s download, 130 Kb/s upload, 150ms latency to server. This is with WoW running in the background, showing 1000+ latency. Pity there's no speed test sites that do UDP traffic testing. In any case, there are a couple other Kiwis I know of on my server, and they're playing fine, so I know it's not a New Zealand-wide problem, it's more or less just me. |
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