So I saw Becks post about lag and I know that several others have said they have seen lag issues. So I wanted to post this again as I think it was posted awhile back on the old forums.
This site (whatever it does) works great. I know personally I run it on all my machines and can see differences.
At home I was running just over 100ms latency and with the site I never get over 50ms now. At work I was in the 300s to 500s and now its 75ms all the time.
I know Miffed uses it from Manila and can see even bigger changes. Price is really good at about $25 for a year and they give you 30 days free to try it.
I highly suggest anyone with latency number over 50ms to give it a go for 30 days. It can only only help!!!
The leatrix/TcpAckFrequency is a hack that turns off a part of ipv4 that's used to manage congestion, giving the protocol less overhead/making it faster.
RTL is a routing thing. I suspect it routs WoW traffic over a private VPN that uses a premium quality of service through the backbone (at a cost premium) over public traffic.
Both solutions should work together if you're comfortable handing your traffic to a man-in-the-middle.
dont like rezzing an old forum but the drop outs and lag spikes are killing the wife and i during raids, so i want to do something about it... couple of questions... also side note we ahve fios 50/20 so that should be our issue and all computers have the leatrix fix installed on them....
do you need mulitple accounts for 2 ppl or just the 1....
anyone with experiece from west coast have positive reviews of this?
just annoying i can't get under 100 ping on zang but servers close to me are barely above 15ms....
iirc, Zang is in the Boston complex so getting below 100 will be tough to do from the west coast, what's your average ping? Routing issues usually cause overall latency to go up, but it seems like you are more prone to the "lag spike" kind of stuff. Unless the cause of the spike is a bad (over taxed) router along your traceroute, chances are that reducethelag.com won't help.
yeah it is more the lagg spikes that are driving me crazy... ill stand there and watching my insta cast dots not even fire off for like 5 secs and can still here all the vent stuff and such going on just fine, then it catches up, usually with me standing in something bad =(
Creating a thread about this. I figure it will be a good resource for people when they are having latency issues. I will link it in a few min when im done.
I live in West Coast and Zangamarsh is located in New York city as datacenter. My latnecy usually around 113ms on world. Sometimes I do get over 200ms depending my provider. I checked with my end, router, modem, etc everything looks good. If I ever get over 200ms, it always my provider who causing the lags.
I did test out with another server as West Coast datacenter, it showing me under 40ms from home and world latency. All I can say in my end depending where you live, provider, your modem(s), router(s), computer or datacenter location.
Shiftiez, I know you live in west coast. I try two different providers this year one is AT$T DSL and Time Warner. I try with DSL first, my latency showing me over 100ms as usually. So I switched to Time Warner cable, 10ms lower than my previous provider. I just can't make my latency lower than 80ms since I'm aware that Zangarmarsh server is located in New York datacenter.
It all depend on geographic location compared to your server's database can be very relevant. Not all servers are based in one area. There are four locations in North America; New York, Chicago, LA, and Phoenix. If you live in somewhere in North-East coast, you will get better latency if you're on a NY server than if you played on a LA server. Your latency will be worse
In TN my latency is usually around 50/50, but last night was especially bad during the phase 2 seed collape aoe. I was just praying we didn't get an up-close engulfing flame or I would have likely been another dead rogue.
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So I saw Becks post about lag and I know that several others have said they have seen lag issues. So I wanted to post this again as I think it was posted awhile back on the old forums.
This site (whatever it does) works great. I know personally I run it on all my machines and can see differences.
At home I was running just over 100ms latency and with the site I never get over 50ms now. At work I was in the 300s to 500s and now its 75ms all the time.
I know Miffed uses it from Manila and can see even bigger changes. Price is really good at about $25 for a year and they give you 30 days free to try it.
I highly suggest anyone with latency number over 50ms to give it a go for 30 days. It can only only help!!!
http://www.reducethelag.com/
I used that until I found..
http://www.wowinterface.com/downloads/info13581-LeatrixLatencyFix.html
My ping went from a constant +350, to never going over 100.
nice kinpin, i'm down to 41 :)
Haller, lurkin' like the Kurken.
These are two different things.
The leatrix/TcpAckFrequency is a hack that turns off a part of ipv4 that's used to manage congestion, giving the protocol less overhead/making it faster.
RTL is a routing thing. I suspect it routs WoW traffic over a private VPN that uses a premium quality of service through the backbone (at a cost premium) over public traffic.
Both solutions should work together if you're comfortable handing your traffic to a man-in-the-middle.
I'm guessing leatrix is a script for the following hack:
http://windows7themes.net/how-to-improve-latency-in-wow-in-windows-7.html
Yah Laxx, I have been using that since I started having problems a month or so ago. When the ISP doesn't bomb out completely it cuts mine in half.
I used to use Leatrix Latency Fix actually until I started having real problems again. Haven't put it back up since I reinstalled windows
For me... the wheel of death has spun many times.
dont like rezzing an old forum but the drop outs and lag spikes are killing the wife and i during raids, so i want to do something about it... couple of questions... also side note we ahve fios 50/20 so that should be our issue and all computers have the leatrix fix installed on them....
do you need mulitple accounts for 2 ppl or just the 1....
anyone with experiece from west coast have positive reviews of this?
just annoying i can't get under 100 ping on zang but servers close to me are barely above 15ms....
iirc, Zang is in the Boston complex so getting below 100 will be tough to do from the west coast, what's your average ping? Routing issues usually cause overall latency to go up, but it seems like you are more prone to the "lag spike" kind of stuff. Unless the cause of the spike is a bad (over taxed) router along your traceroute, chances are that reducethelag.com won't help.
yeah it is more the lagg spikes that are driving me crazy... ill stand there and watching my insta cast dots not even fire off for like 5 secs and can still here all the vent stuff and such going on just fine, then it catches up, usually with me standing in something bad =(
Yah I've been getting that lately as well. Wondering if it's my end or theirs.
I've been having the same problems myself. Cat says he has as well I believe.
Creating a thread about this. I figure it will be a good resource for people when they are having latency issues. I will link it in a few min when im done.
I live in West Coast and Zangamarsh is located in New York city as datacenter. My latnecy usually around 113ms on world. Sometimes I do get over 200ms depending my provider. I checked with my end, router, modem, etc everything looks good. If I ever get over 200ms, it always my provider who causing the lags.
I did test out with another server as West Coast datacenter, it showing me under 40ms from home and world latency. All I can say in my end depending where you live, provider, your modem(s), router(s), computer or datacenter location.
Shiftiez, I know you live in west coast. I try two different providers this year one is AT$T DSL and Time Warner. I try with DSL first, my latency showing me over 100ms as usually. So I switched to Time Warner cable, 10ms lower than my previous provider. I just can't make my latency lower than 80ms since I'm aware that Zangarmarsh server is located in New York datacenter.
It all depend on geographic location compared to your server's database can be very relevant. Not all servers are based in one area. There are four locations in North America; New York, Chicago, LA, and Phoenix. If you live in somewhere in North-East coast, you will get better latency if you're on a NY server than if you played on a LA server. Your latency will be worse
In TN my latency is usually around 50/50, but last night was especially bad during the phase 2 seed collape aoe. I was just praying we didn't get an up-close engulfing flame or I would have likely been another dead rogue.