Have any one of you guys experiencing lag spikes lately?

I'm on Maxis HOME 10mbps, playing in Barthilas.

Home connection is always fine, chats are smooth. But World connection very unstable. Low latency but with frequent lag spikes.

all thanks to the new unifi 30 mpbs package.

Unifi was unstable for several weeks just awhile ago, according to PingPlotter it was because there was a congestion along the route to the server. End up using WTFast to reroute the game through another route to get good ping.

Maybe you can give WTFast a try, since it is currently free for unlimited use. The routing issue may resolve after awhile so you can always stop using it once it is smooth. Native connection is always better if there is no routing issue as traffic does not have to be encrypted and then re-decrypted again (to protect your data privacy).

Thanks bud, I was getting lag spike so frequent, playing a WW Monk is near to impossible.

What pings are you getting using WTF?

Just tried WTF... it's the same as Battleping. Still laggy than normal. Usually I can get 130ms but nowadays it's 190ms.

Before this connection problem that has been occurring for the past few weeks, I get around 110ms on Home and World. And with the recent problem I get around 170 Home and a very unstable World connection. Major lag spikes.

With WTFast I get around 260ms for both but without the lag spike. I guess it's gonna be my temporary solution.

http://us.battle.net/wow/en/forum/topic/19136824039

Seems like there are undersea cable repairs going on

"There are 2 undersea cables that are currently under repair. One is the Sydney to Japan Via Guam. which is the AJC operated cable with a anchor in Sydney and the Asia-America Gateway or AAG. no ETA on repairs. The issues according to the article will impact the entire area as traffic has to be rerouted onto other cables"

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This post has been edited by khelben: Oct 2 2015, 11:52 PM

You are refering to connection to WOW right?

For WOW, I have played different realms in 3 different battlegroup. Under normal conditions with Unifi, Oceanic servers have the lowest ping which is around 180ms, the USA servers have higher pings, depending on which battlegroup, I am getting around 200ms for one and 240ms for the other. Under such normal conditions, there is no lag spike, no teleporting etc.

I am not sure which server can get 130ms ping with Unifi. Are you using Maxis instead? Maybe they normally use different oversea route which gives better ping?

Lag spike is caused by network bottleneck and data packets gone missing/being dropped between your PC and the servers. That's why teleporting happens. Services such as WTF will avoid congested network to ensure data packet arrives, but it might have to choose a longer route if the shortest route happens to be congested. Therefore, the typical ping can become higher since the data travels a longer distance. It cannot magically clear up the congestion along the shortest path. Those problems belong to the ISP that own that route, and my experiences show that most often than not, it is with oversea operators.

I'm still using the old streamyx that's supposedly inferior to unify. To get 130ms is not hard using Battleping previously. My mate in KL with Unify was able to get 110ms previously. I've attached a screenshot taken some time back... was 135ms then.