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Ive been having the same issue sicne friday... I hope I can get a refund since this BS. I do have Comcaste and have noticed alot of people saying that its a comcaste issue but if thats so why am I able to play COD and all those other games with no issues? Also If anyone has a cure to this please let me know. Thanks

I doubt it's ComCast. I play from the UK and me, and everyone in my Guild (UK and Euro based) suffer unplayable lag in the evening every day - it's getting beyond a joke.

The lag is very real and it started when the two remaining clusters were merged.

Perhaps I can provide you a unique perspective:

I'm currently doing volunteer work in the middle of no where extreme eastern Europe (if you can even call Georgia eastern Europe ) and access the internet through a third world country's cell phone network.

Before the merger, the lag was in the 1,5-2 sec range , but since the merger lag has been a steady 3-5 seconds during Western European prime time in all zones. I also play US prime time, which is early morning for over here, and find the lag to be a steady 2-4 seconds.

Something has really changed since the merger and it really appears to by on Mythic's end. During the high lag periods, I can quickly load webpages and stream videos, which indicates the problem is not on this third world country's cell phone internet access system. If I can quickly load Youtube on a mountain village in the middle of no where Eurasia (seriously - there are cows and goats in the yard...), you can rest assured that recent latency problems are not on your internet service providers' end.

I am not a computer or network expert, but the nature of the delays indicates that Bioware pushed all of the new players onto Ywain's original servers without compensating for the extra use. This supposition is also consistent with their downgrade of the old Camelot Herald to a simple blog website that you could host for free on www.blogspot.com. The old Camelot Herald had many of other features - like the housing lot openings and realm war updates - that certainly required extra servers interact with the game servers.

 

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because, those other games have diffrent packet management and networking code...


daoc has always been EXTREMELY picky about missing a packet or two... or packet corruption... like when network cards first starting having the option to have hardware checksuming, instead of the OS having your CPU do it... daoc freaked out with anyone who had the checksuming down in hardware vs software...

 

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ping is pure TCP traffic, daoc's data packetts are UDP traffic, soooo.... if your isp has UDP traffic on some ports blocked, that could cause daoc issues... unlikely but it could...

in the past comcast was throttling and even blocking UDP traffic to cut down on torrentz and other P2P transfers that tried switching up to UDP instead of TCP because most internet routers only have traffic control rules for TCP, so switching to UDP gave them free uncongested oncontrolled bandwidth usage.... (the way the net should work anyways.... but thats a diffrent beast entirely off topic from this thread)

vents activity connection to tell weather your still connected or not, is also handled TCP... so again errors on the UDP side would effect vent.

 

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OK how many people who are not on Comcast are having this issue?

Also, if it is Comcast, they must have just changed something, because I was fine a week ago. Anyone hear that Comcast made a change? (Not much on the Internet.)

 

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Im on AT&T and Im lucky if i can stay on for 3 minutes. I am able to surf net and other internet related activities just fine. but DAOC....ya right.

 

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comcast rarely posts about changes... unless theres a huge amount of people affected that cry and whine, then comcast goes umm oops...

it might not be comcast, it could be a bad router on the intarwebs.... it could be common router that alot of people route through to get to camelot...

it could be mythics isp... it could be mythics servers.. it could be the game client, it could be firewall incompatabilities, it could be misconfigured firewalls... it could be any one of hundreds of possible things, or a combination of things...

my posts were to simply point out.. its quite possible for 1 service to work and another not, due to underlying network technologies.

 

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Same issue damn comcast