KelmenWong Posted February 11, 2017 Share Posted February 11, 2017 south east asia general latency to harbinger is around 300ms, i can play with this but once awhile, it spike up, sometime dc use ping-plotter, looks like packet loss at hop *.SanJose1.Level3.net whois stating this is at Broomfield, colorado, usa anyone experiencing this? is this gonna recover? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scay-goo Posted February 11, 2017 Share Posted February 11, 2017 (edited) Yes. i'm playing from Kuala Lumpur to Ebon Hawk server . constant DC due to high ping. i suspect its my local isp fiber problem connecting to US server. Tested playing on European server no problem so far its still frustrating cause i prefer to play on US server. Edited February 11, 2017 by Scay-goo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StupidWiz Posted February 11, 2017 Share Posted February 11, 2017 I'm playing from Jakarta but there's no noteworthy spike lag or dc, I don't know maybe your ISP? For what it's worth, I remember experiencing this as well and it recovered itself after a day or two. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mmmbuddah Posted February 11, 2017 Share Posted February 11, 2017 Even players in Europe are having issues atm. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt-ITA Posted February 11, 2017 Share Posted February 11, 2017 Yeah, not only from Asia: same problem in Italy. Vodafone-related ISP. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andryah Posted February 11, 2017 Share Posted February 11, 2017 (edited) south east asia general latency to harbinger is around 300ms, i can play with this but once awhile, it spike up, sometime dc use ping-plotter, looks like packet loss at hop *.SanJose1.Level3.net whois stating this is at Broomfield, colorado, usa anyone experiencing this? is this gonna recover? Packet loss in level 3 routers is not uncommon, nor is it necessarily an issue. Latency on the other hand CAN and WILL cause server disconnects for SWTOR.. and the client will continue to try to reconnect unsuccessfully until it times out some minutes later. A level 3 router is a "backbone" router, and as such they prioritize and handle traffic differently then router hops at lower level points in the internet (and they should, to be honest). Also.... SanJose is.. well.. in California, NOT Colorado. whois is showing you the business address of the company, Level 3 Communications, not the physical location of the router. Harbinger is located in the west coast server farm, located in Southern California (they lease within a very large southern California mega data center). It is not uncommon for level 3 routers to have congestion in the California routes. There is an extremely high rate of data traffic in the state... probably courtesy of all the people streaming their TV content now days, rather then via cable or antenna connections. I would guess that your route is hopping through the LA area, which along with the bay area are particularly prone to congestion for some level 3 backbones. Edited February 11, 2017 by Andryah Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OwenBrooks Posted February 12, 2017 Share Posted February 12, 2017 (edited) use ping-plotter, looks like packet loss at hop *.SanJose1.Level3.net The packet loss displayed at that router is only a problem if that packetloss continues to all further hops, if it is only at that router then it can be ignored. packet loss to a router is different to packet loss through a router and ICMP is low priority. Feel free to make a thread at EA Answers HQ and isert the pingplot saved as a jpg , and I can provide a 2nd view on what is displayed. Edited February 12, 2017 by OwenBrooks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
americanaussie Posted February 12, 2017 Share Posted February 12, 2017 Packet loss in level 3 routers is not uncommon, nor is it necessarily an issue. Latency on the other hand CAN and WILL cause server disconnects for SWTOR.. and the client will continue to try to reconnect unsuccessfully until it times out some minutes later. A level 3 router is a "backbone" router, and as such they prioritize and handle traffic differently then router hops at lower level points in the internet (and they should, to be honest). Also.... SanJose is.. well.. in California, NOT Colorado. whois is showing you the business address of the company, Level 3 Communications, not the physical location of the router. Harbinger is located in the west coast server farm, located in Southern California (they lease within a very large southern California mega data center). It is not uncommon for level 3 routers to have congestion in the California routes. There is an extremely high rate of data traffic in the state... probably courtesy of all the people streaming their TV content now days, rather then via cable or antenna connections. I would guess that your route is hopping through the LA area, which along with the bay area are particularly prone to congestion for some level 3 backbones. Ahhhhhhhh! Interesting. Thanks. I did not know this. I've not connected to the game in the last 14hrs but last night on harb it was fine. Some lag issues that made quesh huttball a PITA but that was it. I'm in Australia and usually am around 186ms. If it spikes up to 200-300, people suddenly fly in pvp. I was noticing that a little. I tried to stun the ball carrier under the acid trap, but suddenly they weren't there and were already behind our goal line. To my teammates, it probably looked like I just stood there and let the ball carrier through :eek: ugh. lol. ah well. No disconnects or red bars or X of death though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zhedzaban Posted February 12, 2017 Share Posted February 12, 2017 I'm in Australia and usually am around 186ms. If it spikes up to 200-300, people suddenly fly in pvp. I was noticing that a little. I am also in Australia and I would kill for 186ms. My ping has never gone below 250ms and usually sits between 275-300ms. If I may ask, are you on the east coast and are you on the NBN? I'm in WA and don't have access to NBN yet (coming this year they tell me). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OwenBrooks Posted February 12, 2017 Share Posted February 12, 2017 (edited) I am also in Australia and I would kill for 186ms. My ping has never gone below 250ms and usually sits between 275-300ms. If I may ask, are you on the east coast and are you on the NBN? I'm in WA and don't have access to NBN yet (coming this year they tell me). Which ISP are you with ? i'm with iinet (sydney) and get about 180ms to Harbinger Only other avenue that will likely lower your ping, give http://www.wtfast.com a test run and see how much impact there is on your timings Edited February 12, 2017 by OwenBrooks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
americanaussie Posted February 12, 2017 Share Posted February 12, 2017 I am also in Australia and I would kill for 186ms. My ping has never gone below 250ms and usually sits between 275-300ms. If I may ask, are you on the east coast and are you on the NBN? I'm in WA and don't have access to NBN yet (coming this year they tell me). As per someone on here said, my ping did not change after nbn. I forget their reasons. I'm in Melbourne. Being in WA may make you further so maybe that's why you have a higher number. Fyi: the weeks leading up to nbn installation made our adsl SOOO BAD UNTIL THEY KILLED IT. Yep. They killed our adsl. Telstra was no help. The nbn guys fixed our adsl so we'd have something the week before switching over to nbn. I'm on aussie broadband as telstra is absolute poo. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zhedzaban Posted February 12, 2017 Share Posted February 12, 2017 (edited) Which ISP are you with ? i'm with iinet (sydney) and get about 180ms to Harbinger Only other avenue that will likely lower your ping, give http://www.wtfast.com a test run and see how much impact there is on your timings I use battleping, just to get the 270ms. I figured I'd get higher pings being in Perth, but I never thought it was that bad. I just assumed you guys were getting 250ms as well. 180ms is a huge difference. Oh, and I'm on Telstra bigpond Edited February 12, 2017 by Zhedzaban Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OwenBrooks Posted February 12, 2017 Share Posted February 12, 2017 (edited) Oh, and I'm on Telstra bigpond This will be why, in your case you should get better ping with iiNet I think as one of their routes out is via perth Use http://looking-glass.iinet.net.au/lg.cgi and select a perth router to the server IP 159.153.68.252 maybe not Router: AS4739 - Perth, AU Command: ping ip 159.153.68.252 repeat 5 (west coast) Sending 5, 100-byte ICMP Echos to 159.153.68.252, timeout is 2 seconds: !!!!! Success rate is 100 percent (5/5), round-trip min/avg/max = 256/256/260 ms Edited February 12, 2017 by OwenBrooks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zhedzaban Posted February 12, 2017 Share Posted February 12, 2017 This will be why, in your case you should get better ping with iiNet I think as one of their routes out is via perth Use http://looking-glass.iinet.net.au/lg.cgi and select a perth router to the server IP 159.153.68.252 maybe not Router: AS4739 - Perth, AU Command: ping ip 159.153.68.252 repeat 5 (west coast) Sending 5, 100-byte ICMP Echos to 159.153.68.252, timeout is 2 seconds: !!!!! Success rate is 100 percent (5/5), round-trip min/avg/max = 256/256/260 ms So it would seem Perth is the problem and not so much my ISP? Will the NBN make a difference as it would improve my latency to Sydney, which is where I assume I'm going to be routed before going to California. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OwenBrooks Posted February 12, 2017 Share Posted February 12, 2017 Very minimal maybe 20ms if your lucky, give the trial of wtfast a go though may or maynot shave off more then battleping depending on return path and their path Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KelmenWong Posted February 12, 2017 Author Share Posted February 12, 2017 as someone suggested, posted this issue at answers.ea.com swtor http://answers.ea.com/t5/STAR-WARS-The-Old-Republic/intermitent-lag-spike/m-p/5875228#U5875228 with pingplot screenshot Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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