62% packet loss=Slow connection/lag

[Antichrist]

Lately my ET connection to the HC server has been VERY slow. So slow, that I would miss warmup. Sometimes It would connect to the next map and the screen would be distorted, much like a pk3 error. I would have to /reconnect to fix that, and still it took far too long to connect.

 

Normally it takes about 5 seconds to connect for me. Now it's taking 20-30 seconds before the game is loaded . It will show the connection screen (Awaiting gamestate), but no map loading. After this long time, I see the map loading screen, then it connects as normal. This problem is ONLY on Hardcore. I can connect to Silent1 Normally with no problems.

 

I have run the PK3 cleaner - No change.

I have removed all older, and newer versions of Silent- No change.

I then removed my silent folder completely - No change.

I reinstalled ET - No change.

 

I have regular lag spikes on my lagometer. Red lines are always visible now. Normally for my connection I have some lag spikes, but this is 10x worse than normal, so I decided to run WinMTR.

 

Total run time was 15 minutes, and the WinMTR result:

 

 

 

 

|------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
| WinMTR statistics |
| Host -                                                       % | Sent | Recv | Best | Avrg | Wrst | Last |
|------------------------------------------------|------|------|------|------|------|------|
| COPPERBEAR -                                            0 | 961 | 961 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| cable-mac1.lncsnycd-ar4001.nyroc.rr.com - 0 | 950 | 950 | 10 | 80 | 2977 | 29 |
| gig3-1-11.buffnylnc-pe02.nyroc.rr.com -       0 | 961 | 961 | 9 | 15 | 74 | 17 |
| ae1-0.lncsnycd-rtr001.nyroc.rr.com -            0 | 961 | 961 | 9 | 13 | 55 | 10 |
|bundle-ether6.rochnyei-rtr000.nyroc.rr.com - 0 | 961 | 961 | 25 | 32 | 55 | 34 |
| ae-3-0.cr0.chi10.tbone.rr.com -                     0 | 961 | 961 | 24 | 32 | 65 | 30 |
| ae1.pr1.chi10.tbone.rr.com -                         0 | 961 | 961 | 24 | 29 | 86 | 32 |
| xe-4-0-5.ar2.ord1.us.nlayer.net -                   0 | 961 | 961 | 26 | 31 | 74 | 32 |
| ae2-40g.cr2.ord1.us.nlayer.net -                  62 | 278 | 107 | 0 | 27 | 58 | 31 |
| xe-0-0-1.cr1.nyc2.us.nlayer.net -                    0 | 961 | 961 | 26 | 45 | 103 | 37 |
| vlan-77.ar1.nyc3.us.nlayer.net -                      1 | 958 | 957 | 36 | 43 | 75 | 40 |
| as20473.ae7.ar1.nyc3.us.nlayer.net -             1 | 957 | 956 | 0 | 44 | 77 | 41 |
| ve104-as1.pnj1.choopa.net -                           0 | 961 | 961 | 37 | 47 | 795 | 45 |
| 216.155.146.19.choopa.net -                          1 | 930 | 922 | 0 | 42 | 69 | 44 |
|________________________________________________|______|______|______|______|______|______|
WinMTR v0.92 GPL V2 by Appnor MSP - Fully Managed Hosting & Cloud Provider

 

 

 

[SunLight]

Normally it takes about 5 seconds to connect for me. Now it's taking 20-30 seconds before the game is loaded . It will show the connection screen (Awaiting gamestate), but no map loading. After this long time, I see the map loading screen, then it connects as normal.

that's exactly the same thing that happened to me when I had packet loss in SW

[Antichrist]

that's exactly the same thing that happened to me when I had packet loss in SW

 

Did you do something to fix it, or did it fix itself?

[SunLight]

Did you do something to fix it, or did it fix itself?

I didn't do anything, hopefully if was just a temporary thing

 

I asked everyone if they had red lines in their lagometer but they said no, or didn't answer... it could have been some packet loss on some IP I have to pass through

[Antichrist]

Since this problem seems to be more HC specific, and not just ET in General, and it does not appear to be Mod based since I can connect to other Silent servers normally, I'm making a post on tracker. Thanks Sunlight

 

Follow up information will be posted here: 

 

http://fearless-assassins.com/tracker/issue-1419-62-packet-loss/