How is the Main Arena connection for you?

[4510]

Boxboy,

I see you are in Tucson.  Maybe it is an Arizona thing.  I am down in Sierra Vista.  Last night I flew in the MA for the first time since the change and saw a bunch of "wierdness".  No discos fortunately, but had someone comment to me about "nice warp" and saw some warps.   I shot a YAK point blank with a K4, had parts slam into my plane (thought I collided)  and then the YAK just didn't exist anymore.  No kill credit, no falling plane, no explosion, it just ceased to exist as if it had never been there.  

My other Tucson based Arizona squaddie and I could not agree on our DAR.  He would see my DAR counter over A10 and be looking to join up with me, I was flying over A53.  

So I echo your comments.  I can't explain WHY.. only that it  IS.  And these are issues that didn't exist prior to the change.

[DREDIOCK]

Originally posted by Skuzzy
In general, a pause in the screen is related to the CPU being busy or the video card stalling.  The more players there are in your area, the more data your computer has to process.
If you select game settings which overload your video card, then you can experience stutters as well.

How about a hot CPU/system?
By Hot I mean heat hot

[Teebox]

Better,

206.16.60.38 = 33
206.123.111.42 = 37

[airspro]

About the same , ping just a tad higher , 78 vers 68 or so but game play the same for me , Sat 4th .

Mid Michigan connection

cheers

[Boxboy]

Originally posted by 4510
Boxboy,

I see you are in Tucson.  Maybe it is an Arizona thing.  I am down in Sierra Vista.  Last night I flew in the MA for the first time since the change and saw a bunch of "wierdness".  No discos fortunately, but had someone comment to me about "nice warp" and saw some warps.   I shot a YAK point blank with a K4, had parts slam into my plane (thought I collided)  and then the YAK just didn't exist anymore.  No kill credit, no falling plane, no explosion, it just ceased to exist as if it had never been there.  

My other Tucson based Arizona squaddie and I could not agree on our DAR.  He would see my DAR counter over A10 and be looking to join up with me, I was flying over A53.  

So I echo your comments.  I can't explain WHY.. only that it  IS.  And these are issues that didn't exist prior to the change.

You maybe right today it was MUCH better I think I only had 2 mini freezes and they were to be expected on my system with 100 guys in the furball.

So in the end I guess Skuzzy is right the internet is a VERY strange beast

[AKChucklz]

206.123.111.42   avg  22

206.16.60.38   avg  23

Looks good either way for me...  

[Gooss]

Better.

Thanks for the improvement.

HONK!
Gooss

[Skuzzy]

Originally posted by outbreak
Well something on the server is making it happen to a jack rabbit load of peeps, On the old server the game ran like Clockwork, No Flinches in the screen or anything, Since the server update when im flying and could be 100+ miles away from any fighter or fight at that, Still get screen lockups on occasion, Its since the move to the new server i noticed these, Not on the old but on the new, And they are very annoying, And if more people are having it since the new move to this server then its not our Systems, My FR stays 40-70 and i still have lock-ups, i use about 199.00mb of my 512.00mb available, use 49.03mb of my 128.00mb Graphics card, So in no way when a freeze happens is it because of my system. Its only SINCE the move to the NEW SERVER.

The server is physically the same server.  Identical.  It is just connected to a different ISP.

And you can completely disregard the amount of video ram being reported as used.  We discovered that number to not be reported correctly for many video cards/drivers.
When HT says freezes (we define a freeze as the game just stopping for some period of time, usually not recoverable without a reboot) do not have anything to do with the server connection, you can bet he knows what he is talking about as he wrote the code.

[Skuzzy]

Originally posted by Boxboy
Skuzzy, outbreak and I are in the same boat, before the move no problems after the move all kinds of stuff is happening mine freezes, disco's, etc etc.

Now from a layman's POV nothing has changed on our end but something has changed on your end.  The next thing we hear from HTC is that it cannot be caused by the move to the new server because ping times are better.  Our refain is "it wasn't happening prior to the move".  On it goes round and round, but I have to tell ya that if it remains like it is now I will be unable to continue because the game at the moment is, for me, unplayable.

Who said ot cannot be the server because ping times are better?  The server is the same server.  Identical.  Phyiscally moved from one location to another.
Sure, net connects can be different.  it is to be exepcted.  How different?  We really cannot know until we try.  But game freezes, as we define them, cannot be caused by the network/Internet.  HT wrote the code, he would know.
We cannot make a decision on any ISP in a matter of days.  At any given time of the day, there is always something wrong on the Internet.  You can take that to the bank.
It is prudent to give a different ISP some time to see how they respond to problems, and see if the problems (if any) are chronic.

[Airscrew]

Just my 2 cents
before move ping about 67,  now 15.  Austin tx

[anthio]

My connection was hovering around 92 to 121. It now runs as low as 83. I would say much better.

[68boxcar]

Ping the same, 60 to 70. However,  my frame rate went from approx 45 to 60.  Improvement for me, but don't know if the change had anything to do with this.

[Flayed1]

I know I have already posted and it is better but on ATT every night at about 8 or 9 pm Mountain time I would get nasty lag, my net status looked like a comb and vox.. welll I could hear every other word from my squad. This was real bad on squad night.   So far I can hold a fairly steady line on the net status and no vox loss.   ThndrEgg had done a ping plot (we live 500 ft apart) and for the first time in our AH history all jumps come up green most of the time. Amazing for our anciant dial up connections out here in the desert.

  All I can say is I really really reallly hope you guys go with this new ISP.

[pigface]

Frame rates went UP today from 48 to 75. Lost Vox once today, that was reg occurance with other ISP though. So far so good!

My only request is to remove the trees located right at the end of runways, which is not really related here, but I know youll read it here. Thanks.

[VERTEX]

Better, ping went from 150ish to 75ish, almost never get discoed, log in is faster also.