I agree but am not the only one, I played for a few hours tonight checking my ping and it was avrg 89 , but most of last night it was in the 180, and i was also talking to random people that are pinging in the 40 50 range and we have been laggin like crazy but the ping remained the same. I ran shit load of test and like I said its funny that i ping St-Louis , Louisville, Indianapolis all of them and some more around the area and I ping them in the 30, but anything in Cincinnati I jump to 89+ , Ryan am glad you were able to tracert my ip at some random time that gave you a reading of 80, Ive played other servers in the avrg of 80 and at 80 I should not have people skipping tiles like they were on speed. but again I understand that the move was not ment to make everyone have a awsome ping and stuff but don't be claiming that most people will have better latency's since the shard move allot of people have been wondering why so much lagg is going on.
i enjoy your server and respect all the hard work you all put into it don't get me wrong but something is wrong somewhere, we were 9 people and all lag at the same time and its a continious thing, am just letting you know what we are experiencing on the shard.
OK... let me explain a few things to you...
By trade I deal with networks and latency on a daily basis... I'm a VoIP engineer so this is kind of my wheelhouse.
When I trace to your IP on a long term basis, I started when you made this post, I'm seeing out of HUNDREDS and THOUSANDS of packets a "best round trip" of 76.3 milliseconds, "average round trip" of 76.6 milliseconds and a "worst round trip" of 78.1 milliseconds.
This kind of connectivity is A+... you're getting amazingly stable transit between our datacenter and your home, which is better than anything we've ever had. My traces are far more relevant than your traces as they are coming FROM the server back to YOU which is what the server has to do in order to deliver you data from our network. All along the route your'e going to see weird round trips because routers all over the internet deprioritize ICMP (ping packets) and as such don't respond the way our servers and network do.
You're welcome to keep troubleshooting but our portion of the transit which is us -> you is rock solid. If we're waiting on a packet from you we can't really help that and I doubt your ISP is going to help you in any way
Overall there will always be pockets of latency that you're going to run into no matter what service you use, we've chosen one of the best Tier 1 carriers to handle our shard traffic and we work directly with them.
As an example, while I typed this I let this trace run for 500 packets and it came back with nearly identical results minus a single hiccup packet:
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Host Loss% Snt Last Avg Best Wrst StDev
1. ip8-26-59-1.cvg.myftn.net 0.0% 500 0.2 0.1 0.1 0.5 0.0
2. ge-6-2-100.car1.Cincinnati1.Level3.net 0.4% 500 0.5 11.4 0.4 203.9 31.3
3. ae-2-5.bar1.Cincinnati1.Level3.net 0.0% 500 42.2 2.9 0.4 69.8 10.6
4. ae-10-10.ebr2.Chicago1.Level3.net 0.0% 500 6.8 8.2 6.7 19.1 3.3
5. ae-1-100.ebr1.Chicago1.Level3.net 0.0% 500 6.8 9.4 6.7 29.2 4.8
6. ae-6-6.ebr1.Chicago2.Level3.net 0.0% 500 6.8 6.8 6.8 18.6 0.9
7. ae-3-3.ebr2.Denver1.Level3.net 0.0% 500 31.2 31.2 31.1 42.6 1.1
8. ae-2-2.ebr2.Seattle1.Level3.net 0.0% 500 61.5 62.6 58.0 75.3 4.4
9. ae-23-52.car3.Seattle1.Level3.net 0.0% 500 58.4 66.3 58.0 258.1 29.1
10. GT-GROUP-TE.car3.Seattle1.Level3.net 0.0% 500 58.7 58.3 58.0 60.5 0.2
11. core2-seattle_POS1-0-0.net.bell.ca 0.0% 500 76.2 99.1 75.7 1228. 73.8
12. core4-vancouverbg_pos4-0-0_core.net.bell.ca 0.0% 500 76.2 101.7 75.9 568.2 57.6
13. core4-toronto21_POS0-12-1-0.net.bell.ca 0.0% 500 77.0 76.8 76.1 81.3 0.4
14. Core2-ottawatc_POS10-0-0.net.bell.ca 0.0% 500 76.4 90.3 76.0 273.7 39.3
15. core2-ottawa23_POS3-0-0.net.bell.ca 0.0% 500 76.1 90.4 75.8 284.3 40.4
16. lns1-ottawa23_GE2-1_101.net.bell.ca 0.0% 500 76.5 76.5 76.3 97.1 1.0
You can dispute what I'm saying but these are facts I'm dealing with...
I'm trying to help here, I really am... but when we're sitting on a gigabit backhaul directly to Level3's Cincinnati Pop I have serious reservations that we're the problem.
-Ryan
