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ReinerdOne
Thu Oct 28, 2004 9:40 am
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I tried to do the first mission from the imperials and the z95s fly like butterflies, no fluid motion at all... one second here, one second there, then over there... its impossible to shoot anything that keeps instantly moving from place to place
Iwami
Thu Oct 28, 2004 9:47 am
#2
I think thats a lag issue bacause i havnt had this issue since beta, and only shortly in beta. If your in a heavily populated are i think this will happen. Also if your on 56k i've heard that has problems.
Cry4Dawn
Thu Oct 28, 2004 9:49 am
#3
Ya there are times when this does happen and its like how did that ship just do that????
ReinerdOne
Thu Oct 28, 2004 2:05 pm
#4
well, i have dsl with a 150 ping, it stopped all of a sudden, then next time i logged in it happened again
its reaaaaaaaaally frustrating
Sigmund
Thu Oct 28, 2004 3:13 pm
#5
Well ping doesn't really indicate quality of connection- the game may say it takes 150ms for a packet to reach you, but if say, somewhere between your ISP and SOE some computer decides to misplace > 5% of your packets... yeah, things will go to heck pretty quick.
Unfortunately, the in-game network meter doesn't measure that at all. I think the support pages may have stuff for really testing the connection.. but what you need is a combination of traceroute (which is not enough on its own), and polling- pinging every hop on the traceroute ~100 times to figure out which one is dropping traffic.
Worst of all, is that the results of that can change anytime. My "great" connection periodically drops 100% at 12:30am~1:00am because the ISP decides to do maintenance. =P so best to test it right when it's acting flakey. Oh, and then, "what to do?" well, usually it's just "wait until the ISP fixes it," though sometimes you can expedite the process by finding some contact info of your ISP to email the test results to. Either they know about it and are working on it, or they were ignorant of it and should now work on it, or it's outside of their network and they'll poke someone else to fix it. And then you wait until the ISP fixes it. =)
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