Thoughts on Lag and Discos....

[JB73]

I'm not sure which forum this should be under: internet connectivity , or technical support

So I'm putting it here (this will get the largest audience)

First off I'd like to say I Rarely have CTD's....
Lag is seldom if not rare (maybe 1 plane in a furball)....
my net stat is almost always flat and smooth...

This is my sitation and i seem to be in the Minority.



I will try to address what I've seen in the past few months:

first off I have a cable connection, live in the continential US (wisconsin to be exact), and usually go online at peak hours (primetime 6-10pm)

the few times i have had a host queue that jumps radically i logged off and started a firewall. one thing i found is i was recieving thousands of pings, and a few times a port scan. this was probably a hacker of some kind trying to get past my router or trying to clog the net. after rebooting my pc (or releasing and renewing my ip address) the queue was smooth again and the firewall reported no incidents.

has anyone ever checked into this on their end?
if so what have you found?



also, reading the connectivity forums i see alot of trouble across the pond (ie. in europe)
how many of you with lag and net queue issues live in the US? if you do who is your ISP and do they have a stable connection at that time?
for those in europe... I know too little about the situation of ISP's there to speak intelligently.



i know this rambles around a bit but i'm not real concerned with my gramer and structure here




My whole point of this is the internet is a HUGE place, and to lay the blame on 1 server (HTC's) seems a bit harsh.

next time you do a ping plot to HTC try doing the same to yahoo and msn and cnn... if your connect is bad to them also the problem is no longer an HTC issue. you can't expect a few guys (and girls:)) from texas to be able to control the whole internet.

I find it hard to understand (having half of my MCSE cert.) how a server can be fine for 1 person and terrible for another. usually if there is a problem with a server it affects ALL that are connected to it.



well those are my thoughs on the lag/net stat. issues


<> all and good flying

[Wlfgng]

live in the continential US (wisconsin to be exact),

I didn't think that WAS in the continent(i)al US !

[JB73]

*Punt*

come on .. what do you all think...

was expecting at least 1 serious response

[Don]

Well JB, I have cable modem (Comcast) and live in Maryland. Internet traffic tends to be heavy in this area. I usually log on in the evenings. Over the past 6 days when I log on I have had trouble with my connection. I especially experience lag, in particular Text Lag; it has been especially bad since this past Sunday. NetStatus readings have been steady and flat but, still the horrible text lag spilling over into a/c performance. As this is happening to me, others are complaining about it as well.
If you have not been experiencing these things then you are very fortunate. I can say it has not been the case for me, and by what I read in the MA and here on the BBs, it is the same for many others.
What I have described has just started happening since this past Sunday; who knows, next week it may be something else. Several weeks ago I was getting ctd's frequently, just like many others were.
I do not use a firewall, I did at one time, and it proved to be more trouble that it was worth. I was getting interruptions due to spamm attempts as I was flying.

[Rude]

You're correct, but few will agree....just too easy.

[akak]

I'm on cable modem through Cox.net and am lucky enough to be the only one in my 'network neighborhood' so I'm not sharing any bandwidth with any other customers in my town.

Until the 1.10 update, I didn't have a disco but as soon as 1.10 came out, I started to get discos up the ying-yang.  My net status also started to look like a richter scale after an earthquake.  It wasn't until the last patch that my net status has settled down and is back to a somewhat normal state, with an occasional hiccup here and there but nothing like it was.

Another thing I noticed when I was getting mass discos, is that they usually would occur when I was flying after 9pm PST time, for some reason after that time is when I had the worst connections.  During prime time (3pm-6pm PST) my net status and connections would be OK, but when 9pm rolled around, my connection would go to crap.


Ack-Ack