http://us.battle.net/d3/en/forum/topic/6246865862?page=7Apparently the problem is with our ISP according to :
Hello, GhostlyCrowd. I am from Malaysia and a new D3 player. I am also suffer from the recent lag spike since the last maintenance, hence here I am.
As you suggest, I do an immediate route tracing the moment I encounter lag spike (600~2000 right now) in my game, and here is the result:
http://i45.tinypic.com/1z4bfv4.jpgA little information for you, 300+ ping is consider smooth in Malaysia, or at least for me, as I always play with 250~350 ping since I bought this game. So ignore the analysis comment, as it seems that any ping higher than 200 is being deem as slow.
I don't know much about technical stuff, thus from what I can understand from the information, my trace is smooth (250~350 ping) until I enter D3 server.
So, does this proof that the last maintenance has indeed mess something up? Or perhaps you can provide me with other explanation, because as I said before, I have no idea about this technology thingy, just a regular person who love playing game^^.
Thank you.
And I hope to have some friendly discussion. I am frustrated too. My previous post was on the first page in this thread, so I also suffer from this issue for quite some time now. However, I don't want to write any rage comment, as it never solve anything. thank you.
I would actually have to agree with the trace analysis and say that your pings are high, given that they could fluctuate higher or lower that's probably causing spikes. as you can see still within your ISP's network (10.55.192.49) your pings sky rocket. My packets do not take the same rout as yours and my pings to the server are VERY good. i will show you my results and as you can see, my results give me a nice low latency experience, at least as of the past few weeks.
10.55.192.49 is not an external address, its with in a local network, I would inquire with your ISP, and if its not part of their network they may be able to investigate with who ever they are leasing the network from.
I would have to say your ISP is to blame for your issues. the fact that its worse for the US server is because your Local pings (with in your ISP's network) are high to start with and then it is aggravated with the high pings that your packets see since they have to travel to the us which is a further distance then the local D3 servers.
Who is your ISP? maybe all the users who are posting here share a common ISP or ISP's that use the same backbones and networks.
Granted the AT&T server that D3 resides on is the slowest point in this chain for me by far.
Remember once you hit a slow hop, it will effect every hop behind it, traffic both to and from.
My Results:
http://tinypic.com/r/swehsm/6