Runes of Magic US / AU

Looking at the bandwidth cap, I have absolutely no idea why you would get an internet connection with that much speed.

Speed =/= Quality.

A majority of the time, Gameforge is going to be right when they say it is not an issue with their servers. It is safe to assume that when Gameforge gets a server ... they are not going to be residential internet connections.

Don't forget there is ~10+ nodes from you to the server. Each one could have a problem.

Not to mention that Zid is ignoring possible/probable regional and/or routing issues between his home and Florida. I seem to recall seeing something awhile back regarding a big ol' storm that hit the US east coast. It was so big that news of it even reached my dingy little hovel here in the midwest.

There was also something in the story (page 3 in the local fishwrapper, below the fold) about large areas of the east coast intercatzwebz that were disrupted for a couple of hours. That might have had something to do with Zid's latency problems.

In other words, there are many other reasons why someone *might* notice some latency problems. It's not necessarily local, and it's not necessarily at the server end. Could be smack dab in between.

63ms is fantesticle ping from canada down to vault networks in florida. the ping spikes in siege im guessing are from congestion caused by...well, siege. im guessing (guess may even be an overstatement) that the proxy offloads you to the server and coordinates syncing it and the chat servers...and in siege you're still on your server but "proxied" to the siege server. total guess

wireshark it and see....or at least tracert the server in and out of siege. not that you can change the routing unless you use a ping smoother service or vpn that offloads in florida, but it will show the problem area. if it doesnt then the problem likely resides behind the proxy in the rom server cluster.

i had 25/25 fiber on a backbone in DC for like 8 years from work. ping was constant ~55, never changed. now on dialup in redneck afghanistan im lucky to get below 500, not even taking into account the constant spiking >< be happy you have any broadband available

checking the internet weather map also may explain intermittent spiking...bad major router or a detoured route due to line work at a major node etc

the 160gb cap blows at that speed though..hell i sometimes would blow through 15tb in a month since my fiber also fed HD cable/ppv movies etc.

oh and pr0n..only a tiny bit though

Paz the Fail Mage said:

"i had 25/25 fiber on a backbone in DC for like 8 years from work. ping was constant ~55, never changed. now on dialup in redneck afghanistan im lucky to get below 500, not even taking into account the constant spiking >< be happy you have any broadband available"

Upgrade from paper cups and string to tin cans and aluminum wire from demolished '60s house to improve your latency times.

And flush your DNS.

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i had 25/25 fiber on a backbone in DC for like 8 years from work. ping was constant ~55, never changed.

Im playing ROM of a piece of 40 year old 26 gague copper oldschool phone line carrying a dsl signal in rural mississippi and I am pulling pings between 32-47

Me wonders if your fiber connection wasnt nearly as antiquated. Some of those fibers and their dle equipment have been in plant since almost day 1.

LMAO..ur a WITCH! (i have an elevated cmd with the ipconfig flush bound to a key on my naga mouse for constant use :/ )

only upgrade available is the inbred pony express >< and its costs something worse than money

http://forum.us.runesofmagic.com/showthr…ll=1#post584893

Thats my speed, the left one is yesterdays speeds. The right one is todays speeds after they moved the Au server to Florida.

That thread is Gameforges lame attempt to blame it on our computers/isp rather than there decision to move the server. For RoM Au its probably the final nail in the coffin. As you would all know high ping rates are the Arch Enemy of every MMO player.

I also live in Florida and have the same issues. I do believe it has to do with weather conditions and/or sunspots.

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[COLOR=white !important]Me wonders if your fiber connection wasnt nearly as antiquated. Some of those fibers and their dle equipment have been in plant since almost day 1. [/COLOR]

no doubt but in my case it was what work did to it. encryption for prioritized routing (if u believe that i have some beach front real estate to sell you on jupiter) and loopbacks in some government echelon closet /tinfoil on

plus it carried my hd cable, on demand pr0n etc etc

i did actually set up a server for a fps twitch game a while back on oc192 fiber direct drop to the DC metro area backbone at work. (we used to send, and view in realtime, 120gb images to australia even. crazy stuff for back then. i couldnt let that connection collect dust :rolleyes my ping was rarely above 1 even at home. until the IT spooks detected the unusual traffic :/ (scariest super geeks ive ever peed my pants in front of Oo)