Recent bouts of server lag

[sylvyrdragon]

Chicagoland area here.  I've had the gambit of what was mentioned above.  Last week during a DM run event in the Docks, it was so bad I could not target the 'bad guys'.  I spent half the time running around trying to find them, would finally find them then lag out so bad that I lost them again.  (I spend most of my play time in the docks, which is always a little laggy, but has been much worse of late.)

conversations are slow, like taking up to three seconds to show after hitting enter.  Opening inventory can take up to six seconds.  I just plan try not to have conversations with NPC's.  Thankfully I've never had to hit a transition or open a door quickly as those are taking the longest for me.

[Howlando]

Lag during large events is to be expected, but if performance is really that bad for numerous players during normal play that is unacceptable. Our hosting service is very expensive and generally we have an efficient (if enormous) module.

So I suspect something is going wrong somewhere.

[Snoteye]

Please try and pay attention to this over the next few day.

[Nihm]

Right now the server ping is -1, whereas most other servers are between 75 - 300 ping.
 
I'm West Coast.

[Nightshadow]

Shortly after I began trying out the new alchemy system the whole server began experiencing serious lag and many people lagged out. I used a few minor potions, some purple crystal chunks, rat meat, reptile scales, sinew and guts in my experiments.

[ExileStrife]

Is it fine during some parts of the day but bad during others?  Are there any EU people running into this problem?

[Paha]

Like said, Finland here and I'm running smoothly. Only occasional text lags but hey, aren't they normal once in a while. I have not seen anything unordinary.

[Zymnarkmar]

Here Here! Definatly lag since last update (or revert to old version, whatever happened) imo.  Basically since the server had its crashing weekend (Sat a week or so ago maybe) there has been noticiable lag.

[kanrath]

I'd say I started noticing it about oh 2 weeks ago. Lag spikes that almost seem repetitive, every 15-25 seconds I would get nailed by horrendous lag that  often resulted in me simply logging out to avoid say running into something and dying. Sometimes moving would take up to 6-7 seconds, and there has been an extremely noticeable increase in transition load times. My normal time with my connection /pc is 3-5 seconds, its started to take up to in a few really bad cases 20-25 seconds to load, on average at least triple my normal load times. Just came back after being away for the weekend and as soon as I logged in it was back. To be clear, until twoish weeks ago I had never seen an ounce of lag on the server.

[Conan The Conqueror]

I also want to note that in the last couple days there has been a lot of error messages showing up in the server message window. Usually related to someone taking quests. I'll post the exact error message when I see it again.

[Stormbringer]

Yeah, the lag has been really bad the last few days. Even walking I get lag. During fights, it hops about a lot. I know it's not my computer because other server don't lag so badly, even with huge maps laid out. I'm not sure why it's gotten so bad lately.

SB

[sylvyrdragon]

The lag has gotten bad enough of late, that I just plain refuse to quest.

And yes, I know that during large DM events the lag is usually bad, but I've never had it so that I couldn't see the enemies to hit them, usually I just don't get the chance to.  heh

[Conan The Conqueror]

The reason this issue became so pressing for me was that the lag was persistent even with less than 10 players logged in and no DM present. I was asking about player locations because I was curious if the isse was more related to the paths that players connect to the server through, but after running a tracert, couldn't find any bad hops.

Will continue to monitor the connection as much as I can though.

[ExileStrife]

I'm very interesting in the time of day this is happening at.  Exact times would be very good.

[Paha]

Can you folks put up locations? I am curious if all you are US and from certain areas or what not.

Because I as euro guy can't find it and it's clear you folks have major issues there. Maybe the server provider did something? DId your connections change during the recent storms? Something has changed recently somewhere, but I've had mine to stay same.

Maybe major connection provider in US is screwing up something?