Laggy

[monthos]

At first i thought it was my ISP, as they had previously had problems. But i took a traceroute and the problem is right at the server itself.

 

1  216.255.53.113 (216.255.53.113)  7.475 ms  7.382 ms  7.599 ms
2  209.173.160.97 (209.173.160.97)  24.320 ms cols-nova-gw.bright.net (209.143.1.205)  18.164 ms  16.491 ms
3  chi-edge-08.inet.qwest.net (63.149.72.101)  26.298 ms  27.668 ms  28.599 ms
4  chi-core-02.inet.qwest.net (205.171.20.113)  26.442 ms  30.805 ms  26.655 ms
5  cer-core-01.inet.qwest.net (67.14.8.14)  74.527 ms  26.713 ms  28.503 ms
6  cer-brdr-01.inet.qwest.net (205.171.139.58)  26.750 ms  37.945 ms  31.656 ms
7  qwest-gw.cgcil.ip.att.net (192.205.32.97)  27.816 ms  27.155 ms  27.714 ms
8  tbr1033301.cgcil.ip.att.net (12.123.4.242)  30.959 ms  40.355 ms  34.128 ms
9  gar1-p370.chail.ip.att.net (12.123.4.69)  33.146 ms  28.066 ms  35.800 ms
10  12.119.137.90 (12.119.137.90)  31.796 ms  38.345 ms  87.121 ms
11  216-86-154-200.chi.aim2game.com (216.86.154.200)  293.970 ms  293.473 ms  293.330 ms

 

The lag is constant, not spiking at all. And has been here for the past few days (at least on evenings when i play) Has anyone else noticed anything strange?

 

*edit* sorry i posted quick and realise this is not the best forum for this topic to be located in, if need be, mods please move it.

Edited July 12, 2006 by monthos

[TheGeek]

im getting 250 to 350 ping in midwest and midwest scopeless. i dont know why. and all of the others are laggy too.

[anonymo]

I'm pinging fine at 9am...

[monthos]

At work right now, but i logged into my router at home to check the traceroute.

 

30-50ms right now. Seems good, hopefully it will last so when i get home i can play. However the upside of it lagging for me, i have been meeting people in the west coast server Its pretty sad when a cleveland guy pings better to LA, than to a chicago server, especially when 90% of all my traffic goes through chicago anyways.

[Demoner]

i have a question for you monthos, do you also experience a drop in fps in addition to the lag?

[monthos]

No, no drop in frames. Just laggy. And for the record, i just got home, and the lag is there again, its the last router right before i reach the chicago servers, like like the traceroute i gave.

 

I know the network that the server is on probably has many paths into it, but why am I the only one who seems to be affected? This is seriously bumming me out.

[monthos]

Yeah, just refreshing this topic, and a request as well. am I the only ones getting this?!?!?

 

traceroute to 216.86.154.200 (216.86.154.200), 30 hops max, 38 byte packets
1  216.255.53.113 (216.255.53.113)  29.211 ms  8.129 ms  7.258 ms
2  209.173.160.97 (209.173.160.97)  18.189 ms cols-nova-gw.bright.net (209.143.1.205)  21.085 ms nova-telco-gw3-cs-1.bright.net (216.201.63.145)  27.688 ms
3  chi-edge-08.inet.qwest.net (63.149.72.101)  27.291 ms  27.031 ms  26.595 ms
4  chi-core-02.inet.qwest.net (205.171.20.113)  26.872 ms  31.326 ms  26.967 ms
5  cer-core-01.inet.qwest.net (67.14.8.14)  30.838 ms  33.403 ms  27.109 ms
6  cer-brdr-01.inet.qwest.net (205.171.139.58)  39.380 ms  35.938 ms  33.847 ms
7  qwest-gw.cgcil.ip.att.net (192.205.32.97)  127.474 ms  27.752 ms  27.408 ms
8  tbr1033301.cgcil.ip.att.net (12.123.4.242)  31.185 ms  29.996 ms  31.155 ms
9  gar1-p370.chail.ip.att.net (12.123.4.69)  28.203 ms  34.427 ms  33.790 ms
10  12.119.137.90 (12.119.137.90)  34.785 ms  29.019 ms  27.755 ms
11  216-86-154-200.chi.aim2game.com (216.86.154.200)  214.204 ms  206.892 ms  204.713 ms

 

besides for some small spiking along the route, and i have re-ran the traceroute many time getting the same results. it seems to be the last route to the server. yet im the only one? impossible.

 

when i am in the server, i have a constant 200 ping when the lag starts. I am starting to get upset now. its been a week since it started. and there is no end in sight. If i played 1:00am-3:00pm I wouldnt notice the lag. But unfortunatly I have to play when convienent.

 

I cannot see any signs that point to my setup. only server i found it affects is gc chicago servers, the traceroute shows its close to them, and yet im the only one getting it. Im going to go get drunk since i cant play, and everyone knows i only like to get drunk WHILE playing

 

*edit*

wierd error post contained the body of the message twice.

Edited July 15, 2006 by monthos

[mrX]

Just did a tracert myself and got 28ms at the final hop.

[monthos]

Ok, so it acts up, i post then straightens up. I guess thats better than the past week of it being a constant evening thing. Yet i know if i join it will act up, becouse thats my luck.

 

This is as bad as trying to deal with XO or ICG on t1 issues at work, i cannot loop an NIU, they see it, i look, and i see the NIU, but i take errors, they look, they see none. So then i spent hours convincing them to look harder

 

If the GC admins dont mind, im going to make a script to traceroute the server every five minutes for maybe twelve hours, so i can track the times.

Edited July 15, 2006 by monthos

[Fatty]

This data will be useful. I'm going to pin a topic in the general CS forums. Please post your results there.

[shep48]

try pingplotter monthos

[monthos]

pingplotter eh... ive never been into those fandy dancy graphical thingamabobbers.

 

For what it is worth I also during my lag session logged into my Colocated server in cleveland, and ran a traceroute. Where as my laggy dsl went through att.net before getting to aim2game, my colocated box that didnt lag went through cogentco to pccwbtn.net, and didnt have any abnormalities.

 

When i notice the lag again, i will post info from both of those box's on the new thread, as right now, im not lagging that much, so my data wont be usefull in finding the root problem.