Svartmetall
Great Unclean One
- Joined
- Jan 5, 2004
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How many other people are having this? I know myself, Cainez (a guildie who posts as Draypor here), Kagato and some others, all NTL users, are having this problem. Basically we're getting huge lag and then going linkdead all the time - running Pingplotter shows constant (as in, 24/7) spikes from the 3 NTL servers who the first part of our connection to Excal. The game is completely unplayable at the moment for those of us with this issue, you can't do anything at all - just now I was in Otherworld with 2 guildies, and went LD 3 times in 5 minutes. Last night I had been having a great time on my Thane around the Alb frontier, and after 4 LDs in less than 15 minutes had to give up in disgust. Utterly hopeless trying to get anything done in game (bye-bye tonight's planned ML action, for starters, all the gaming stuff I had planned for this weekend has been completely ruined), and incredibly annoying.
Yesterday I was talking to Cainez on vent when there was a massive spike from the fourth-hop NTL server, and every subsequent step on the route said "ERR"...and guess what? Right then, Cainez went LD, which clinches it for me. Every time I've gone LD, I've fired up Pingplotter again, and guess what? Massive spikes from the NTL servers again. We know it's NTL's servers causing this, even though they claim when they run ping tests to these servers that the results are fine. Running tracert in the command window has shown lag times of up to 450 ms on the third hop, and sometimes "destination net unreachable" on the third or fourth hop too.
So, if you're on NTL in this area or near to it, and having this terrible LD problem, sign in here to let the rest of us know it's happening to you too (strength in numbers and all that) and make damn sure you phone NTL to let them know. We can't let this go on much longer, as it's completely ruining the game...they've got to fix the problem, and they'll do it faster if we make them do it faster by hounding them until they do.
Yesterday I was talking to Cainez on vent when there was a massive spike from the fourth-hop NTL server, and every subsequent step on the route said "ERR"...and guess what? Right then, Cainez went LD, which clinches it for me. Every time I've gone LD, I've fired up Pingplotter again, and guess what? Massive spikes from the NTL servers again. We know it's NTL's servers causing this, even though they claim when they run ping tests to these servers that the results are fine. Running tracert in the command window has shown lag times of up to 450 ms on the third hop, and sometimes "destination net unreachable" on the third or fourth hop too.
So, if you're on NTL in this area or near to it, and having this terrible LD problem, sign in here to let the rest of us know it's happening to you too (strength in numbers and all that) and make damn sure you phone NTL to let them know. We can't let this go on much longer, as it's completely ruining the game...they've got to fix the problem, and they'll do it faster if we make them do it faster by hounding them until they do.