This has been getting progressively worse for the last 3 days or so. Me and Mheracai can usually still log in, but the lag is so bad even opening a chest is rare and takes over a minute. I have re-setup my entire home network, re-installed java, deleted/reinstalled skcraft, no luck. If I run a ping -t to www.skcraft.com about every 5th packet is getting lost, nothing else has any issue. Any suggestions? Thanks.
Are you attempting to connect to eduardo.sk89q.com as I suggested? What is your ISP? I have been noticing that the server itself is not lagging, TPS is good, so there must be an issue with the connection somewhere. IDK if the server is still in germany, but I believe that it is not located in america. The server has been running (I believe) better then ever before, averaging ~17-18 TPS (again, I think). I believe there is a sour connection somewhere that is causing issues for some players on the west coast, as there is absolutely no reason for the server to not respond. I myself have issues just logging in, sometimes it takes 3 or 4 attempts, even though my ping to the server is ~160ms (Some may see that as horrid, for half way around the world I see that as just fine) I have done tracerouts and it quite literally drops packets as soon as I leave my local backbone connection (I am on time warner cable (and live in california), and I have had major issues with them throttling certain traffic before, (even if it is legitimate traffic)) and there seems to be a bottleneck where my ISP meets the actual backbone of the internet. I sincerely do not want to sound alarmist or anything, but the recent spats between comcast/ISPs and netflix/other high bandwidth connection leads me to believe that ISPs have stopped caring about certain ports/traffic types and have reduced their access to the backbone through their networks. If you can start off by changing your DNS server (I use the google DNS servers, that seemed to help some), and connect to eduardo.sk89q.com. If that still does not help, and you have the technical knowhow, do a traceroute of both alice.sk89q.com and eduardo.sk89q.com and post the results. That will determine whether there is an issue somewhere in the connection, or there is an issue with the server that needs being addressed. (please try my suggestions, but take them with a grain of salt, as sometime I really do talk out my ass about things I barely understand, but have seen solutions for, so I regurgitate them where I can.)
Out of interest, from the UK this is what mine looks like: Spoiler Tracing route to puffin.sk89q.com [176.9.154.246] over a maximum of 30 hops: 1 20 ms 9 ms 5 ms cpc4-amer3-2-0-gw.15-2.cable.virginm.net [82.26. 74.1] 2 6 ms 8 ms 5 ms watf-core-2a-xe-1130-0.network.virginmedia.net [ 80.3.1.93] 3 9 ms 7 ms 7 ms brnt-bb-1c-ae14-0.network.virginmedia.net [62.25 3.175.90] 4 10 ms 11 ms 11 ms popl-bb-1c-et-210-0.network.virginmedia.net [62. 253.175.241] 5 9 ms 10 ms 10 ms nrth-bb-1c-et-500-0.network.virginmedia.net [62. 253.175.249] 6 13 ms 11 ms 11 ms nrth-tmr-1-ae1-0.network.virginmedia.net [213.10 5.159.30] 7 29 ms 30 ms 28 ms fran-ic-1-as0-0.network.virginmedia.net [62.253. 185.81] 8 * 27 ms 26 ms decix-gw.hetzner.de [80.81.192.164] 9 26 ms 27 ms 29 ms core1.hetzner.de [213.239.245.6] 10 28 ms 30 ms 40 ms core21.hetzner.de [213.239.245.217] 11 30 ms 30 ms 29 ms juniper1.rz16.hetzner.de [213.239.245.94] 12 30 ms 32 ms 31 ms hos-tr5.ex3k4.rz16.hetzner.de [213.239.251.69] 13 30 ms 28 ms 28 ms ns3.grayboxhost.com [176.9.154.246] Trace complete.
I've use both connections same results. It seems to suddenly be working great today though, barely any lag at all. Weird.
The downside to using Time warner, they daisy chain their networks. this means you are strongly affected by what your neighbors are doing. this is why you may be seeing a slowdown at certain times throughout the day. A really simple way of thinking about this is like doors, TwC has one door that many people are trying to squeeze through. verizon fios has a dedicated door for each person.
Well, it was great for about 6 hours, but now it's back to crashing every minute and a half or so. I'm playing from Alaska, my ISP is GCI. Pretty sure it's not them though, because everything else works just fine, 22m connection.
I am not familiar with GCI, when you say "Everything else works just fine" what are you referring to?
