Experiencing Lag

makosi

makosi

Grotto Attendant

Join Date: Mar 2006

"Pre-nerf" is incorrect. It's pre-buff.

Requirement Begins With R [notQ]

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Hi,

I'm getting a great deal of lag this evening (and last night too) and I'm wondering if anybody else is also having this. I'm freezing roughly every 10 seconds for 2-5 seconds at which point all the attacks I've mad and spells I've cast within the lag freeze then occur in rapid succession when I unfreeze.

I rarely have lag issues and I'm guessing it's to do with the halloween event. Could anybody else post if they're having a similar problem? This way I'll know for sure if it's soley my connection (which I doubt since other applications are fine) or if it's some routing centre that is faulty.

Thanks.

<--East coast Scotland.

Riot Narita

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Apr 2007

I am in exactly the same situation. Lag is usually extremely rare for me, but yesterday was bad, and today is almost unplayable, ping times range from 1000ms to 25000ms or more. I've killed skeletons and had them disappear before I could capture them, because the server took so long to respond.

I am simply pointing my heroes at a spot on the ground... some time later, the screen will unfreeze, I will find myself at that location... and hopefully the heroes killed everything nearby. It's like playing by email :-P

I'm in the UK. Tracert doesn't reveal any slow/bad hops, it looks fine. All districts are the same - European, American, International, Asian. All my other internet stuff is working fine, business as usual.

Armageddon

Armageddon

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Jan 2006

yep Im getting it too, its been bad since yesterday for me as well and I never had a problem before

ping just seems to spike into the 1000's

in UK on Virginmedia, other games are fine and my internet connection seems good and stable

makosi

makosi

Grotto Attendant

Join Date: Mar 2006

"Pre-nerf" is incorrect. It's pre-buff.

Requirement Begins With R [notQ]

Me/

I'm on VirginMedia too.

Could be that, could be a UK thing. Depends on others' input. Cheers.

RedDog91

RedDog91

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Oct 2007

Farming for Nick gifts

R/

Why is it that over the past month everyone decides to make a new thread every time they experience lag?

Armageddon

Armageddon

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Jan 2006

Quote:
Originally Posted by RedDog91 View Post
Why is it that over the past month everyone decides to make a new thread every time they experience lag?
maybe so they can try and find where the problem is?

MrKGado

MrKGado

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Jul 2009

USA

W/

I'm in Southern Ontario, Canada and I was experiencing quite a bit of lag while doing the Halloween quest earlier today. It probably just has a lot to do with the event.

Hooper287

Academy Page

Join Date: Aug 2008

Canada

I Yam What I Yam

W/

I'm from Manitoba, Canada, and my lag issues are even worse. Every 5 seconds I freeze FOREVER, sometimes I get the option to attempt to reconnect, usually I have to wait 10 mins for that though. It sucks, I can't do anything! Could be my ISP though, it's storming here

cantalus

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Aug 2005

virgin media as well, bad lag, rubberbanding with large freezes, in surbition

spoke with an exguildie who's in north london, he's also having it

been happening since i logged in about 6pm

cantalus

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Aug 2005

Quote:
Originally Posted by RedDog91 View Post
Why is it that over the past month everyone decides to make a new thread every time they experience lag?
because this is unusual lag, and to let people like you have something negative to say

makosi

makosi

Grotto Attendant

Join Date: Mar 2006

"Pre-nerf" is incorrect. It's pre-buff.

Requirement Begins With R [notQ]

Me/

I'm running PingPlotter and it says there's packet loss 20-30% at:

ae-32-80.car2.Dallas1.Level3.net
4.69.145.132

Does this mean the issue is in Texas?

Lord Dagon

Lord Dagon

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Jul 2009

Inside the Oblivion Gate

The Imperial Guards of Istan[TIGE]

E/Me

im lagging like mad but nothing im not used to

D/C'd on during the conversation between the frozen king guy and the reapers in the dont fear the reapers quest.. needless to say i was not happy

Virginia, US here.(its also raining here so thats problably whats up)

tictock

Pre-Searing Cadet

Join Date: Oct 2010

<virgin media , bad lag big 10k spike unplayable for 2 days

Gennadios

Gennadios

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Jun 2009

N/A

I've noticed that anet servers always screech to a halt during special events and right before a big update, particularly in heavy traffic instances like popular farming and quest locations.

I have to give anet props though, I've suffered some rubber banding, but it's been nowhere near as bad as the last few holidays when bots were allowed to run amok.

chullster

chullster

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: May 2008

Blighty, Land of bad weather and plucky Brits

R.I.P. DJ HMS [BZRK]

Virgin media, UK, lancs here.

Given up on gw for last 3 days as nothing but rubber banding.

Gone back to x3:TC, will return after derv update today or end of festival event.

RedDog91

RedDog91

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Oct 2007

Farming for Nick gifts

R/

Quote:
Originally Posted by cantalus View Post
because this is unusual lag, and to let people like you have something negative to say
nothing unusual about it....
Old players are returning for HoM rewards. And then everyone that only logs in for events have begun logging in for halloween.
This lag happens every single holiday, how is it unusual? The only difference is the added players for HoM

makosi

makosi

Grotto Attendant

Join Date: Mar 2006

"Pre-nerf" is incorrect. It's pre-buff.

Requirement Begins With R [notQ]

Me/

My ping is good again today during the daytime. In the past two days it has gotten laggy in the evenings (18:00GMT onwards) so if it happens again I'll consult support.

Riot Narita

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Apr 2007

Quote:
Originally Posted by makosi View Post
My ping is good again today during the daytime. In the past two days it has gotten laggy in the evenings (18:00GMT onwards) so if it happens again I'll consult support.
It was a little better for me late last night. I still had some jerk-o-vision and freezes though.

I note that there was a "severe broadband problem" logged on Virgin Media's national service status page last night (it claimed it only affected SE England hmmm). That item is no longer showing, indicating it should now be fixed.

I hope that was the cause of my problems, and things are back to normal when I login tonight.

Quote:
Originally Posted by RedDog91 View Post
nothing unusual about it....
Old players are returning for HoM rewards. And then everyone that only logs in for events have begun logging in for halloween.
This lag happens every single holiday, how is it unusual? The only difference is the added players for HoM
It's extemely unusual and does NOT happen every single holiday. Otherwise I wouldn't have bothered posting - and it seems to me, nor would the others.

It's incredibly rare that I get problems with lag, even during events. Ping times typically rise during events, but not to "problem" levels, and certainly not to 25,000ms or more, and disconnects.

Riot Narita

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Apr 2007

My connection is back to normal, lag problems gone.

makosi

makosi

Grotto Attendant

Join Date: Mar 2006

"Pre-nerf" is incorrect. It's pre-buff.

Requirement Begins With R [notQ]

Me/

Quote:
Originally Posted by Riot Narita View Post
My connection is back to normal, lag problems gone.
Mine is back to normal, too. In fact, my ping is very low.

Thanks Anet or Jesus or whoever was responsible for sorting it.

Armageddon

Armageddon

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Jan 2006

lag has gone for me too, back to normal

makosi

makosi

Grotto Attendant

Join Date: Mar 2006

"Pre-nerf" is incorrect. It's pre-buff.

Requirement Begins With R [notQ]

Me/

It's back. Same thing.

ae-32-80.car2.Dallas1.Level3.net

Packet loss of up to 60%. This can't be my fault, right?

EvilSteve

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Oct 2010

The Magus Order

E/

Same here - it's fine, and then suddenly spikes to 20 seconds+. Been getting it for 2 days now.

makosi

makosi

Grotto Attendant

Join Date: Mar 2006

"Pre-nerf" is incorrect. It's pre-buff.

Requirement Begins With R [notQ]

Me/

Turns out this is a VirginMedia problem.

http://community.virginmedia.com/t5/Gaming/bd-p/Gaming

WoW and Aion players are lagging too and a techy on the VM website said it'll take a few weeks to fix.

It's only affecting me in the evenings for some reason.

Edit: Someone on a WoW forum suggest the following command (paste it in to "Run") and it's worked for me too.

Code:
netsh interface ipv4 set subinterface "Local Area Connection" mtu=900 store=persistent