Iburst and WOW

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I actually cant believe that a company gets away with service like this and people still subscribe to them?

Now I am not in the mood for a rambling about this so I'll just give the facts.

1. Signal Strength 85 % to 100 %
2. Local ping to SAIX dns servers between 500ms and 4000ms
3. WOW ping ... 3000ms to 12000ms ... if your even connected long enough to measure it and not dropped because of insane packetloss.

Is there anyone still actually using iburst for anything
that requires < 6000ms latency ? I cant even administer *nix boxes with this kind of lag ?
 
The past month have been real crappy to play wow during the day, but last night after about 1am latencies were really nice 500-600ms. During the day i get 800-1200 which is still ok if it wasn't for the packet loss causing massive pauses :( I'm thinking of getting ADSL for wow...it's just too much of a hasstle to play wow with iburst....you never know what to expect when you log on.
 
Eles, you rexperience doesnt go for the whole Iburst network. So yes ther are still people using Iburst, probably because they can set it up properly and dont have any problems with the network.

The question is why are YOU still using it if you get 6000ms latency? I would have dumped it a long time ago then.

Also you probably just need to restart you rmodem, works wonders.
 
When ping averages are that high please improve your signal. Maybe use uttracestar to do a correct placement.
 
it is a pity that there is so mach lag involving games. guess it is inherent to a wireless network. i can only see wireless isp's losing more clients to adsl. But that pings is a bit excessive. i didn't have bad pings while in sunninghill, but moving to montgomery park has seriously degraded the signal. the signal is as dead as the ppl in the cementary next my home. makes me sometimes wish to move back. the signal was especially bad last night, but overall its not that bad for me. but then i play gw and not wow.
 
I am slowly losing faith in playing WoW over iBurst. I've posted before about the fact that, even with a laptop antenna and updated firmware, I get terrible signal where I live in Douglasdale. Elsewhere, like at work, signal is strong and throughput is great, even though latency is still an issue sometimes. At home, despite being smack bang in between four or five towers and in a supposedly strong coverage area, I get terrible signal, even outside. I've started to wonder if it isn't the tall trees behind my place, or some freak gravitational anomaly that manifests under my house. Late at night it seems to improve dramatically though, which makes me wonder if it really is my location. Playing through a VPN service helps make life bearable.

The call center told me they'd send out a technician to see what the problem is if I didn't come right, admittedly I haven't taken them up on that yet, perhaps I should. It will probably just mean shelling out more money to have an antenna put up though, with no guaranteed results.
 
the way I see it the issue with lag in WoW is because of packet loss which is becoming rediculous on iburst lately. any game latency under 1000ms is playable i recon, but when 40% of your packets get lost due to iburst clearly playing the game becomes a pointless excercise.
Shaun, whats the deal with the packet loss to europe ? or anywhere else for that matter ??
I can ping www.iburst.co.za with constant 60ms zero loss, try ping google.de or my irc server in germany or whatever and i loose more packets than I get replies to ?? wtf ?
please get the packet loss sorted !
 
I agree 100% with you DodGer it's the packet loss to Europe (or even other places as well) that's the culprit.

Ping statistics for 196.30.31.120: (iburst.co.za)
Packets: Sent = 20, Received = 20, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 63ms, Maximum = 334ms, Average = 151ms

no packet loss to iBurst.co.za
Now notice the packet loss and high latency spikes when i run a tracert to eu.logon.worldofwarcraft.com check hop 10-13 that would cause a massive 10 sec pause in wow easilly, and would make the game unplayable. IS there any one at iburst that can do anything about packet loss like this?

1 133 ms 77 ms 62 ms wbs-196-2-100-1.wbs.co.za [196.2.100.1]
2 88 ms 59 ms 56 ms 192.168.0.97
3 215 ms 49 ms 55 ms 192.168.14.2
4 116 ms 146 ms 154 ms ge0-2.gw10.jnb6.alter.net [66.8.42.21]
5 418 ms 322 ms 234 ms fe4-1-0.cr1.jnb6.alter.net [196.30.156.33]
6 647 ms 335 ms 240 ms srp5-0-0.cr2.jnb6.alter.net [196.30.156.2]
7 407 ms 385 ms 266 ms Serial5-0-1.GW3.LND10.Alter.NET [146.188.5.217]

8 342 ms 576 ms 402 ms GigabitEthernet5-0.CR1.LND10.ALTER.net [158.43.150.1]
9 638 ms 375 ms 329 ms sc-7-0-0.xr1.LND9.ALTER.net [158.43.150.98]
10 336 ms 1432 ms 278 ms so-0-1-0.TR2.LND9.ALTER.NET [146.188.15.41]
11 926 ms * * POS2-0.BR1.LND9.ALTER.NET [146.188.7.246]
12 * * 2545 ms ldn-b1-pos1-0.telia.net [213.248.100.45]
13 516 ms 735 ms 1329 ms ldn-bb2-pos1-2-0.telia.net [213.248.74.13]
14 514 ms 452 ms 762 ms prs-bb2-pos6-0-0.telia.net [213.248.65.114]
15 552 ms 739 ms 534 ms prs-b2-pos11-0.telia.net [213.248.65.226]
16 579 ms 895 ms 521 ms prs-tc-i2-link-telia.net [80.91.250.34]
 
Maybe Iburst so re-evaluate port shaping and allow more traffic through WOW ports. WOW uses very little bandwidth and traffic, I play alot and average about 800mb a month! WOW is not like BF2 which reaches 80-100mb an hour of play
 
I used to think that my signal was the problem, and that was causing the packet loss. I'd resigned myself to the fact that short of moving, nothing would make iBurst usable.

But I've noticed while playing WoW that every day without fail my latency and packet loss improve dramatically after midnight.

Anyone know why this is so? Is the tower overloaded?
 
I used to play WoW last year. Was about 800m away from Auckland Park tower and had consistant 400-700ms ping, which was fine. Now I don't play WoW and I moved (using the Blenheim Court tower in Highlands North) but my iBurst isn't great for WC3. I'm actually seriously considering 382 unshaped ADSL.
 
eles said:
Is there anyone still actually using iburst for anything
that requires < 6000ms latency ? I cant even administer *nix boxes with this kind of lag ?
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I dont think you should blame the lag for your inablilty to admin *nix boxes *gRIn* And yes i use it for everything, i skype to USA and UAE constantly and get less delay than using landline to landline or cell to cell. my ssh is just fine. if you know *nix, you should know what r a MTU.
 
Um since were on the subject, cud u plz give me a site or a reply on how to set my mtu correctly plz, i really wanna make my wow have less lag :D
 
um set it to 1352?
that should be perfect unless you use VPN, geussing you dont.

Some people have slightly different MTU's, but 1352 will work well, im not shure if thse other options do anything..
 
I run wow US on bad iburst connection(am going to get antenna to improve) and i get between 800-1200ms and that is with about 80-90DBi and is still playable but not brilliant when i get 600ms the game is very playable and pvp is possible.
 
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