I think its most probably from the said TMNET disruptions. Remember we don't usually have latency over 800 but right after the patch on our time Wednesday morning, we can't log on that much and those that manages to log on acknowledge about the lag and stuff. Then on the very next day, TMNET does a maintenance to its US link and I guess thats badly affects our main link to the WoW gateway.

I have never ever gotten above 800+..usually hovers around 500-600ms with an occasional 400-500ms lvl range and I live in Subang Jaya. And each time the latency is bad, there is always the news on streamyx about maintenance and upgrade. So I hope everything will work out this Monday onwards...and since they said its an upgrade, it will be cool if we can stay in the constant range of 400-500ms....means yellow bar all the time...

PLEASE DO WORK cause I can't play with latency above 2000ms and sometimes even getting 5000ms lol.

Ok. today is the 29th..way after their maintenance period and its still lagging about 1800ms~2200ms range...no difference at all. I can tell no one in the game except me...cause I party with another warlock today and he has casted corruption, curse of agony and about finished his immolate spell when I just finish casting my corruption spell....

Ugh...tell me how am I going to be able to solo and defend myself in the PvP server when this happens? Btw, before the 24th maintenance, I was also getting the latency at around 800ms~1400ms at some certain point but then stabilize at 500~700ms on average.

Yesterday I got like 334ms...it was so good....you know the feeling when you press on the key to cast and then cast timer immediately appears..without the 2s delay I have experience for the past week...but...I am back to 2k ping now..what the heck? time now is 3:45PM in Subang Jaya...am I alone now?

wtf is happening to streamyx..my ping now is a freaking 5000ms PING! Good god streamyx...what really happened to yesterday good connection?

Man, I am giving streamyx until tomorrow to fix the damn problem. The fact that tmnuts upgraded 512kbps users to 1mbps so that this particular people won't change to other ISPs. I am giving scremyx until this weekend to fix the damn problem...or else its bye bye to them and I am off to maxis broadband. Its totally unplayable now..5k ping is outrageous.

Hmm TMNet will be slow in doing their maintenace part but everyone here seems like there are willing to give another Monday for them, so I guess its pretty reasonable. Besides, the fact TMnet did a maintenace is a good thing cause before the 24th, I think I was getting around 1k~1.4k ping most of the time in high pop zones, so It was already lagging. it was funny though that during the maintenace period my ping has jumped from 2k consistently to 3k consistently now right after the day of yellow bar latency heh.

It is pretty unlikely that it is AT&T fault cause everyone else will be lagging if that happens. Anyway, this is really getting frustrating..for 2 weeks I haven't been doing anything like level increase to my character so I am way behind my guildmates now which is not cool. The latency itself is also getting worse. I think its most suitable to change the thread title to 3k pings! heh

If steamryx refuses to acknowledge that its their problem, so be it. I won't give a damn with them and move over to other ISP...still things are easier said thatn done lol cause only Maxis Wireless Broadband is available in the area and the start up fee is RM500..not good....

It will totally suck without WoW. I really don't know how to get back to my pre-WoW life if you ask me...serious! I will be damn frustrated too at the very least if I am being forced to leave WoW as a result of the constant bad latency and not because the game gets boring that I decided to quit.

Yes, that the problem. As long as general surfing speed is ok on hotmail and others very few people will take notice of the slow ping so people won't really know. The other time hotmail took minutes to load everyone was talking shit about streamyx and it only took them over the weekend(2 days) to fix it not the 2 weeks and counting that is now. Maybe someone can post to Jeffooi.com or The Star InTech which is pretty good as it will always guarantee a response from the TMNet side.

Sucks...I tried the method to disconnect and reconnect the phone line. no such luck even after the 30th attempt on trying to get 218. It looks like its pre-programmed for 219.xx too. This really sucks. Btw, there are no chance that cybercafes won't be using ISP other than streamyx right? Cause if there is really a cybercafe around that have constant 218.xx IP address given to them...I WILL GO THERE no matter what.

I think the difference lies in the klj-odsy01-srp1-0.tm.net.my [210.187.135.13] gateway and the brf-odsy01-srp1-0.tm.net.my [210.187.135.1]. From the traceroute posted by people in the forums. Those that pass through klj experience only 300ms lag where else the one passing through the brf hop always experience 2k-4k lag...like the one in my house. As of now, I am currently playing in a cybercafe in SS15 and it went through the klj link...been playing for 4 hours now and constant 400-600ms on average(funny how when my house is so near)....Maybe the 208.xx passes through the klj hops that greatly reduce lag but I think we as a consumer should be able to demand to access this route
rather than to call to those lousy TMNet support staff that knows nothing of the current status of their maintenace.

I contacted the TMNet support staff and they told that under major maintenace it only takes 2 weeks for everything to be back to normal. However, this current situation we are facing is going into the 3rd week, so its really no excuse for them

This is the tracert result I got when playing in a cybercafe at SS15

Microsoft Windows XP [Version 5.1.2600]
© Copyright 1985-2001 Microsoft Corp.

Tracing route to us.logon.worldofwarcraft.com [12.129.232.109]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 1 ms 1 ms 2 ms 192.168.0.1
2 * 2 ms 7 ms 210.187.114.109
3 10 ms 9 ms 12 ms 219.93.218.176
4 * 8 ms 8 ms 219.93.216.185
5 10 ms 9 ms 7 ms 210.187.143.1
6 8 ms 7 ms 8 ms 210.187.143.5
7 8 ms 9 ms 8 ms klj-odsy01-srp1-0.tm.net.my [210.187.135.13]
8 * * 9 ms 210.187.133.83
9 8 ms 8 ms 10 ms 219.93.174.83
10 303 ms 302 ms 303 ms 219.93.153.158
11 294 ms 294 ms 294 ms 12.118.44.5
12 296 ms 298 ms 296 ms 12.123.8.50
13 307 ms 307 ms 309 ms tbr1-cl4.sl9mo.ip.att.net [12.122.10.30]
14 312 ms 311 ms 312 ms tbr1-cl2.sffca.ip.att.net [12.122.10.42]
15 310 ms 310 ms 310 ms gbr5-p100.sffca.ip.att.net [12.122.11.74]
16 311 ms 310 ms 310 ms gar3-p360.sffca.ip.att.net [12.123.13.157]
17 321 ms 323 ms 322 ms mdf1-gsr12-2-pos-7-0.lax1.attens.net [12.122.255
.254]
18 320 ms 319 ms 320 ms mdf1-bi8k-2-eth-1-3.lax1.attens.net [12.129.192.
110]
19 * * * Request timed out.
20 * * * Request timed out.
21 * * * Request timed out.
22 * * * Request timed out.
23 * * * Request timed out.
24 * * * Request timed out.
25 * * * Request timed out.
26 * * * Request timed out.
27 * * * Request timed out.
28 * * * Request timed out.
29 * * * Request timed out.
30 * * * Request timed out.

Trace complete.

Thats the thing with TMNet staff not knowing their own products...I think its safe to say that they screwed up their own routing system and they currently have no idea on how to fix it. No such nonsense like AT&T blocking TMNet at all. This is ridiculous when the latency is all good in one side and totally sucks in the other. Anyway, JS Internet has the same latency as mine but the internet cafe behind Public Bank in SS15 has an average of about 450ms in game. Right now I am back on my own PC with a f***ing latency of 3.5k..good god.... I have spend so much on a new PC just to play WoW. It will totally suck ass if I have to spend some more money in a cyber cafe like that.

Anyway, I was pretty satisfied since I make good progress with my warlock in the past 5 hours...........

I called TMNet again this morning and the tech staff told me that the 219.95.xxx cable line is badly damaged, so they are fixing the cable as of now. In order not to cause complete disruption of internet services...like having no internet at all....they decided to reroute the traffic through somewhat congested lines...therefore causing the bad latency that we have for the 219.95.xxx line. I have very limited knowledge on this kind of stuff, so tell me if its really possible for them to actually do it like that. Then when I asked about the AT&T restrictions on 219 and 218, he said there was never any restrictions set forth by AT&T at all, and they said that TMNet has direct links to major telecommunications broadband provider including MCI, Verizon, SBC and the likes....

Thats probably because you don't have a good PC to support it plain and simple. I mean if your FPS sucks, its not going to do you any good cause it will still show as laggy cause your char will be seen like blinking from one point to another instead of actually running. is that what you mean?

You are right about the customer service part though about being able to pass the info to the consumers from what they know and what they could understand. But all we need is not several different answers. We ONLY need one straightforward answer and why, is that so hard to ask or is that so hard for TMNet to actually explain it? Come on. Networking is not dealing with complex differential equations or programming language. What is that so hard to explain? Remember back in college, instructors would teach us that the best way to write a project paper is to be able to reach to the masses and not just for the professor or fellow major students to understand. So, please, there really are no excuse for TMNet incompetence. Also deadlines exist for a reason. Its not just to entertain people on when it will be done but to set a date and time so that it could be done and to achieve the objectives faster. People without objectives tends to lag off and delay further their task at hand. So screw TMNet, I have emailed them my tracert results and they told me they will get back to me in 3 days. As of now, still no response whatsoever on their part.

I think I will give up and play EQ2...lol

their tracert result is amazin on my 2k WoW ping..

Tracing route to eqlogin1.everquest.com [64.37.148.4]

over a maximum of 30 hops:



1 * * * Request timed out.

2 24 ms 25 ms 23 ms 219.93.218.177

3 22 ms 23 ms 23 ms 219.93.216.101

4 23 ms 23 ms 23 ms 219.93.155.29

5 23 ms 21 ms 23 ms brf-odsy01-srp1-0.tm.net.my [210.187.135.1]

6 23 ms 25 ms 23 ms 210.187.143.1

7 22 ms 23 ms 21 ms 219.93.175.123

8 24 ms 23 ms 23 ms 210.187.129.171

9 254 ms 256 ms 254 ms 219.93.168.234

10 330 ms 404 ms 271 ms exch1.laeqnx-1.sonyonline.net [206.223.123.90]

11 258 ms 326 ms 261 ms vl890.sdtermsw-1.sonyonline.net [64.37.128.66]

12 431 ms 258 ms 257 ms eqlogin1.everquest.com [64.37.148.4]



Trace complete.



Tracing route to eqlogin2.everquest.com [64.37.148.25]

over a maximum of 30 hops:



1 * * * Request timed out.

2 26 ms 23 ms 23 ms 219.93.218.177

3 23 ms 21 ms 23 ms 219.93.216.109

4 24 ms 24 ms 21 ms 219.93.155.33

5 24 ms 23 ms 23 ms brf-odsy01-srp1-0.tm.net.my [210.187.135.1]

6 24 ms 23 ms 23 ms 210.187.143.1

7 23 ms 24 ms 23 ms vlan250-brf-sw03.tm.net.my [219.93.175.122]

8 24 ms 23 ms 23 ms brf-backbone02-ether0-0.tm.net.my [202.188.0.8]

9 254 ms 254 ms 253 ms 219.93.168.234

10 255 ms 253 ms 254 ms exch1.laeqnx-1.sonyonline.net [206.223.123.90]

11 258 ms 258 ms 258 ms vl890.sdtermsw-1.sonyonline.net [64.37.128.66]

12 261 ms 258 ms 258 ms eqlogin2.everquest.com [64.37.148.25]



Trace complete.


So...Everquest 2 anyone? lol

Bad news....they decided to change the routing in my area somewhat and now I am lagging up to 6k constant! Totally New HIGHS!


Tracing route to us.logon.worldofwarcraft.com [12.129.232.111]

over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 * * * Request timed out.
2 37 ms 25 ms 27 ms 219.93.218.177
3 25 ms 22 ms 23 ms 219.93.216.101
4 23 ms 23 ms 23 ms 219.93.155.29
5 25 ms 23 ms 24 ms brf-odsy01-srp1-0.tm.net.my [210.187.135.1]
6 29 ms 24 ms 24 ms 210.187.142.1
7 26 ms 23 ms 25 ms vlan150-brf-sw03.tm.net.my [219.93.175.114]
8 25 ms 23 ms 24 ms brf-backbone02-ether0-0.tm.net.my [202.188.0.8]
9 2359 ms 2338 ms 2364 ms POS5-1.IG3.SAC1.ALTER.NET [157.130.214.117]
10 2263 ms 2286 ms 2256 ms 0.so-0-1-0.XR2.SAC1.ALTER.NET [152.63.54.126]
11 2238 ms 2247 ms 2208 ms POS7-0.BR5.SAC1.ALTER.NET [152.63.52.229]
12 2206 ms 2215 ms 2231 ms 204.255.174.174
13 2314 ms 2313 ms 2326 ms tbr2-p013802.sffca.ip.att.net [12.122.11.229]
14 2218 ms 2200 ms 2221 ms 12.122.11.94
15 2222 ms 2203 ms 2213 ms gar3-p370.sffca.ip.att.net [12.123.13.161]
16 2300 ms 2305 ms 2299 ms mdf1-gsr12-2-pos-7-0.lax1.attens.net [12.122.255.254]
17 2294 ms 2286 ms 2279 ms mdf1-bi8k-2-eth-1-1.lax1.attens.net [12.129.192.242]
18 * * * Request timed out.
19 * * * Request timed out.
20 * * * Request timed out.
21 * * * Request timed out.
22 * * * Request timed out.
23 * * * Request timed out.
24 * * * Request timed out.
25 * * * Request timed out.
26 * * * Request timed out.
27 * * * Request timed out.
28 * * * Request timed out.
29 * * * Request timed out.
30 * * * Request timed out.

I hope they can fix it by this Sunday. I sorely missed my 16 hours WoW marathon every Sundays....yes...that whole day I play only to take a short break for food, a short nap and shower...lol thats my Sunday life...so pathetic...

Hmm 20k ping in IF...I give up...

I guess this is the best time to play some offline RPG that I should have played ages before. With that Morrowind: Bloodmoon comes to mind.

My latency in game is only 2753ms. It may not seem to be too bad but its totally unplayable. The chat takes 25 mins to come out last night. Even the spells never seems to go off after 30 mins...still shows as casting. And have to Alt+F4 to quit the program.