West Los Angeles area lag last 1 1/2 yrs

Ol'fart · Post by **Ol'fart** » Thu Oct 05, 2006 5:21 pm

Hi,

I play on several servers that run here and I've had severe lag problems for the last year and half. I just switched from cable to dsl and the problem continues. p4-3.0,, 1 gb ram, ati x850 fresh os and game install. It dosen't make a difference what game I play, halo, gs, farcry, q4, ect samething. CS netgraph goes up and down like richter scale in earthquake. Any idea's would be greatly appreciated.

thanx in advance,

Nick|NFo · Post by **Nick|NFo** » Thu Oct 05, 2006 5:26 pm

We would need to see some data like tracerts to the IPs that we host in LA. You can email them to rentals @ nuclearfallout.net along with a description of the issue and your public IP address.

If you don't know how to run a tracert, please read the tutorial here.

Post by **Edge100x** » Thu Oct 05, 2006 5:54 pm

This is to all servers and not just ours?

If so, you may need to look at your home situation and the programs you are running in the background. Are you running anything that might be taking bandwidth, or sharing your internet with anyone? Do you have a wireless or cable/DSL router that might need to be reconfigured or upgraded?

Ol'fart · Post by **Ol'fart** » Thu Oct 05, 2006 8:16 pm

Edge100x wrote:This is to all servers and not just ours?

If so, you may need to look at your home situation and the programs you are running in the background. Are you running anything that might be taking bandwidth, or sharing your internet with anyone? Do you have a wireless or cable/DSL router that might need to be reconfigured or upgraded?

Fresh os and game install. new isp. router or direct makes no difference. any game anywhere. different computer. same thing. I can't be the only one. I think voIP traffic is may be the cause, started around the same time.

freedomsquad · Post by **freedomsquad** » Mon Oct 09, 2006 7:30 am

Hello I aswell experince lag on any servers encluding NFO i ran tracerts and to me it seems to be my connection not the servers i have a server in newyork and this happens a bit but i blame it on dsl as i have had cable and connection was always a bit better for me i have a 3mb dsl connection so your best bet is probably to upgrade your connection or deal with it but im not the professional but i figured id let you know your not the only one on dsl that has this problem. Well have a nice day

Ol'fart · Post by **Ol'fart** » Mon Oct 09, 2006 10:22 am

freedomsquad wrote:Hello I aswell experince lag on any servers encluding NFO i ran tracerts and to me it seems to be my connection not the servers i have a server in newyork and this happens a bit but i blame it on dsl as i have had cable and connection was always a bit better for me i have a 3mb dsl connection so your best bet is probably to upgrade your connection or deal with it but im not the professional but i figured id let you know your not the only one on dsl that has this problem. Well have a nice day

I went from 8mb/768k cable to 768k/128k dsl and the gaming is exactly the same. I live 2 miles from sony studios and that mmrp game is probably part of the problem. the net is just congested in my area. Verizon FIOS)fiber) is suppose to be rolling out but I don't hold out much hope of that helping. ;< (

Ol'fart · Post by **Ol'fart** » Mon Oct 09, 2006 10:27 am

Nick|NFo wrote:We would need to see some data like tracerts to the IPs that we host in LA. You can email them to rentals @ nuclearfallout.net along with a description of the issue and your public IP address.

If you don't know how to run a tracert, please read the tutorial here.

Tracert doesn't show anything. It's packets that have to be resent I'm pretty sure. Slow enough to effedt gaming, but not slow enough to show up on archaic ms net tools. my fav serv is nuclearfallout server 64.94.100.87. my ip is 71.160.86.204. any helpo insight would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you for your time,

Jeff in Culver City

Nick|NFo · Post by **Nick|NFo** » Mon Oct 09, 2006 4:35 pm

Which part of the net graph is going up and down? If it was related to the tracert, then it would be the ms section. Your backtrace currently is perfect from our LA servers to you.

freedomsquad · Post by **freedomsquad** » Mon Oct 09, 2006 8:31 pm

o belive me when fiber optic is rolled out it will be alot faster seems how light is alot faster then electrons

and from what i hear it will be better then cable internet

freedomsquad · Post by **freedomsquad** » Mon Oct 09, 2006 8:33 pm

I was wondering were your located?

Post by **Edge100x** » Mon Oct 09, 2006 9:24 pm

freedomsquad wrote:o belive me when fiber optic is rolled out it will be alot faster seems how light is alot faster then electrons and from what i hear it will be better then cable internet

Signals actually travel faster in standard cat5 wire than in SM fiber due to extra "bouncing" the light experiences inside the fiber, and the fact that wire is actually quite fast.

The main benefit to fiber is that it is less lossy -- that is, signals do not degrade as quickly in fiber, and there is less overall packet loss. This makes it a cheaper and more reliable solution than wire when large distances or large amounts of data are involved.

With ISPs, the medium of delivery to the end user is actually much less important than the quality of the ISP's internal switching configuration and peering to the global Internet. Fiber is used everywhere nowadays except for the "last mile" link, and both fiber and wire (DSL or cable) can easily handle 6+ megabits per second with little loss (as long as the customer is close to the CO).

Ol'fart · Post by **Ol'fart** » Wed Oct 11, 2006 11:39 am

Nick|NFo wrote:Which part of the net graph is going up and down? If it was related to the tracert, then it would be the ms section. Your backtrace currently is perfect from our LA servers to you.

One picture is worth a thousand words. Is there a way to send you screen shots? I have the netgraph running and you can see for yourself.

Thanks for trying to help me.

Jeff in Culver City

Nick|NFo · Post by **Nick|NFo** » Wed Oct 11, 2006 11:45 am

You can email me them at nick (at) nfoe (dot) net. I'll try my best to help you out