Unplayable Lag Master Thread, Please Share Your Details

cr4mf157 · July 2017

I thought I might throw this up here since it's a quick snapshot of what I sent to CS before they flagged my problem as "solved" since they couldn't do anything about it.

That second hop is just my CM600 modem which can't be configured to respond to ICMP. The last hop is the ESO servers, which are purposefully configured to not respond to ICMP. There's no packet loss on the Cogent nodes, but that's not always the case. During peak hours there's often some there as well.

By all rights, I should have about a 50ms response from the server. The best I've ever seen in game is 100ms, but that's only for a few seconds at a time. Thanks the the wild latency of the Garland node and the omnipresent packet loss, it's usually fluctuating back and forth from 250ms at best to 999+ and bringing with it all of the skill delay and rubberbanding one would expect.

DrPain · July 2017

Something is a miss somewhere and my ping bounces all over the place here in Australia. Normally it sits about 280 ms and is fine. Until last Sunday and as soon as I go near a Dolmen, it spikes over 999+ and kicks me out of the game. Yet log back in and go to the same Dolmen and it's fine. I just tried for an hour then and I've given up for bed.

Yet any Aussie server for gaming, 50 ms and under. I say someone fed a Mogwai after midnight somewhere.

Furniture · July 2017

500+ ping spikes. Never seen such bad server problems for a game before. Pretty much unplayable tbh.

DrPain · July 2017

So this morning I found that if I keep away from highly populated area's, my ping was fine.

cr4mf157 · July 2017

Constant spikes to 800-999+ right now. Same route problem as always. AT&T's nodes are garbage. Any chance this game is ever going to be playable again?