Lag on Excalibur

[Sleepery]

I've just moved to Excal after playing on the US servers since release, as most of my friends are there.

However, all the time on Excal I get constant lag spikes, between 5 and 10 seconds in length, at a rate of 3 or so a minute. This is while out away from crowds, just PvE'ing. I've got nothing else running, and nothing else hogging bandwidth.

The game is just barely playable like this with a melee character, but impossible with a caster. Is this normal?? Never had any trouble on the US servers at all, even during heavy RvR. I'm on ISDN.

I can't believe everyone gets this, there'd never be any RvR on the servers.

 

[Ning]

I get no lag.

What's your ISP ?
Make a tracert to Excalibur.

 

[Fana]

Contact your isp and ask them to look at the routing from you to goa servers. More than likely its a busted/overloaded router somewhere along the line thats causing it.

also go to the Start menu in windows and hit Run, then type: command in the prompt. In the dos-prompt that appear type: tracert 193.252.123.33 (exalibur ip adress). If you get lots of * symbols somewhere along the line or very high numbers then thats where the problem is.

 

[Sleepery]

I'm in Dublin, using Eircom who are usually fine.

Ping to Excalibur is about 80ms, which is fine.

Tracert seems fine too, Eircom Dublin - Eircom London - Spiritlink - Excalibur.

Dunno

Edit - Thanks Fana, I think I'll do that. Packets getting held up somewhere along the line.

 

[Taen]

have u got a good spyware remover on your machine ... I had the exact same problem as and i did everything from formating my hard drive to reinstalling the game. I know for a fact it wasnt the isp because i had 2 comps running on the same line and had no lag on the other. I cant tell you for sure what got rid of it but it just disappeared one day.

 

[Sleepery]

No, there's nothing else running cept a firewall and virus checker. Oddly enough, the lag seems to ease off a lot with the firewall turned off. Might try a different firewall.