Recent bouts of server lag

[Conan The Conqueror]

Was hoping to get some more information from players and/or DMs about an increase in lag they might have experienced in the past week. Also please mention times you experience this lag and your general geographic location.

I'm on the East Coast in the US and am about 3 miles away from the server. The lag is consistent in spurts every few mins. Opening inventory can take six seconds or more, and in combat 2-3 actions can go by during a "pause" of lag.

There are times these bursts of lag are really bad, and I thought it was attributed to multiple DMs on at once, but then I tried to play with no DMs on and only 12 players. Lag was still there.

Any thoughts or comments are welcome!

[Lumiere]

I'm located in Scandinavia, and I'm experiencing similiar lag bouts; delay of texts and opening inventory. Has been especially prominent these last two weeks.

[Snoteye]

Indications of when this started are much appreciated.

[VanillaPudding]

I've noticed it for a couple of weeks but I'm not real sure when exactly it started. It gets exponentially worse when groups are out questing, especially when they are doing some of the larger quests with more spawns or different waves of spawns.

As Conan mentioned, the inventory lag shows up and conversations with NPCs are a big hassle. If you happen to be involved with the quest you'll often see the "run through" effect on the creatures where they run beyond players or barricades for a moment before teleporting back.

This happened a while ago and I believe Mort went through and trimmed off a ton of the wandering and extra NPCs in the module and it seemed to fix it for a little while at least.

[Nightshadow]

This started for me earlier this week, I usually get a lag spike lasting up to 3 seconds (rarely longer) once every 30 seconds or so, when it's bad. When it's good, I notice not many people are logging in and out, constantly, but maybe it's just coincidence. I'll watch for it today to see what's going on as it happens and post more with what I see. From what I can tell, it happens in every zone, as I've seen it on the Ziggurat, alleyways, docks, harpies quest, and even orcs quest.

[Nihm]

For the last few days it has been laggy as described by the op for me, though today seems fine.

[Nightshadow]

Yeah, surprisingly, today I've not had any lag.

[Kinslayer988]

This morning was horrible lag

[Udenbur]

Earlier this week, 3-4 days ago. It comes in bursts lasting about half a minute, before it subsides almost entirely for hours at a time (to me at least).

[Crod Mondoon]

West Coast, started this week monday ish..been near death causing at times..so far not. But it has been the full range, of ..warping, no enemies, surrounded by six, click a pot, nothing happens til long after, text conversations with npc takeing forever to load, and pulling up inventories sometimes takes a few minutes.

[Barehander]

I noticed it this week. I live in Finland. I'm not talking about a little delay here: literally up to a minute of lag prevented me from moving out of a quest area before it passed. This lasted for some ten minutes at its worse and then just disappeared. I've also had trouble logging in, getting the timed out message. Meanwhile, other players seemed to do just fine, so it could have to do with me. My connection was fine otherwise, though, and I had no trouble connecting to GameSpy.

There's also been lag spikes experienced by several players, even right after a reset at Euro afternoons. I can't say when exactly it started, but I agree with "this last week."

[Paha]

Only the small text lags here, but nothing bigger that would've troubled my playing.

Finland here as well.

[Lumiere]

Definatly at the beginning of this week.

[Porkolt]

I've experienced this as well, and can confirm that it's very sporadic.

I was having a good bit of trouble with this last thursday evening, for one.

[Underbard]

Thought the lag was just me.