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Lance 2ballzStrong SyNergy Gaming EoN. 1099	Posted - 2013.05.01 08:54:00 - [1] - Quote Just thought I'll share some little tech stuff. Ever wonder if it's the game lagging or is it your connection, well here's a simple solution to troubleshoot it. Since I'm on Mac I can say exactly how to do it, but Windows peeps gonna have to Google that. It's just a simple continuous ping test. What is that you ask? Well basically your computer hits a website over and over, performing the ping test, and it tells you if your connection is stable. Stable connection is when your test comes back with no timeouts. Looking something like this. If your connection is crap, then it'll look something like this. Note the timeouts. On Mac this is how to test it out. Applications > Utilities > Network Utiity > Ping Enter whatever website you want, doesn't matter, click the "Send an unlimited amount of pings", hit the "Ping" button and watch the results as they happen.
Spec Ops Cipher Seraphim Initiative. CRONOS. 73	Posted - 2013.05.01 09:02:00 - [2] - Quote For windows : command prompt, type ping then an address. Eg www.google.com
Lance 2ballzStrong SyNergy Gaming EoN. 1099	Posted - 2013.05.01 09:03:00 - [3] - Quote Spec Ops Cipher wrote: For windows : command prompt, type ping then an address. Eg www.google.com cheers!
Arramakaian Eka Tronhadar Free Guard Minmatar Republic 418	Posted - 2013.05.01 09:21:00 - [4] - Quote That's only general quality of your connection. For more specific (and useful) test, we'd have to ping test Dust servers. You might get a great connection to google, for example, but the connection to CCPs server farms might be a different story due to # of hops, routing, physical location, etc. Anyone know their IP?
skinn trayde On The Brink CRONOS. 109	Posted - 2013.05.01 09:27:00 - [5] - Quote 159.253.143.196 (EU) 173.193.23.235 (US)
4447 ZionTCD Unclaimed. 701	Posted - 2013.05.01 09:27:00 - [6] - Quote If your lagging then theirs to many people on your internet. Unless your the only one.
Arramakaian Eka Tronhadar Free Guard Minmatar Republic 419	Posted - 2013.05.01 09:31:00 - [7] - Quote skinn trayde wrote: 159.253.143.196 (EU) 173.193.23.235 (US) Are you sure? 159.253.143.196 is in the US according to whois. And only one server farm in EU? I thought they had 2-3: Iceland, UK, Amsterdam. edit: according to this Tranquility's IP is 87.237.38.200, in the UK. I pinged 87.237.38.200, and got around 16ms, which is very good for FPS Above 100 is questionable, anything above 150 is pretty much unplayable. Too bad there's no ping display in-game so we can't do it there.
Lance 2ballzStrong SyNergy Gaming EoN. 1100	Posted - 2013.05.01 09:34:00 - [8] - Quote Arramakaian Eka wrote: That's only general quality of your connection. For more specific (and useful) test, we'd have to ping test Dust servers. You might get a great connection to google, for example, but the connection to CCPs server farms might be a different story due to # of hops, routing, physical location, etc. Anyone know their IP? Just pointing out where people might wanna troubleshooting first. Don't wanna be on the forums crying about the game is lagging when the problem lies with your own connection.
Arramakaian Eka Tronhadar Free Guard Minmatar Republic 419	Posted - 2013.05.01 09:39:00 - [9] - Quote Lance 2ballzStrong wrote: Arramakaian Eka wrote: That's only general quality of your connection. For more specific (and useful) test, we'd have to ping test Dust servers. You might get a great connection to google, for example, but the connection to CCPs server farms might be a different story due to # of hops, routing, physical location, etc. Anyone know their IP? Just pointing out where people might wanna troubleshooting first. Don't wanna be on the forums crying about the game is lagging when the problem lies with your own connection. Yes, it's a good place to start. But if you ping Tranquility you get your answer in one go - whether it's your general connection, or connection to Tranquility itself. Also you should look at dropped packets - you might have great ping, but if you have dropped packets (ie. data lost in transit) you'll get worse network performance. Windows ping command as described above by Spec Ops Cipher shows dropped packets. This shows the lag I see is game lag, or alternatively other people have bad connections.
skinn trayde On The Brink CRONOS. 109	Posted - 2013.05.01 09:51:00 - [10] - Quote Arramakaian Eka wrote: skinn trayde wrote: 159.253.143.196 (EU) 173.193.23.235 (US) Are you sure? 159.253.143.196 is in the US according to whois. And only one server farm in EU? I thought they had 2-3: Iceland, UK, Amsterdam. edit: according to this Tranquility's IP is 87.237.38.200, in the UK. I pinged 87.237.38.200, and got around 16ms, which is very good for FPS Above 100 is questionable, anything above 150 is pretty much unplayable. Too bad there's no ping display in-game so we can't do it there. these were the IP addresses listed in THIS thread - however they may have been changed since and we havn't been told
DropKickSuicide Pink Fluffy Bounty Hunterz Noir. Mercenary Group 80	Posted - 2013.05.01 09:52:00 - [11] - Quote Cool info, Il have to try it out on my home PC and see just how bad my connection is. My internet SUCKS so I know its the root cuase of my lag problems, http://soar.dnet.net/ so you can all laugh at me
Lance 2ballzStrong SyNergy Gaming EoN. 1101	Posted - 2013.05.01 10:00:00 - [12] - Quote DropKickSuicide wrote: Cool info, Il have to try it out on my home PC and see just how bad my connection is. My internet SUCKS so I know its the root cuase of my lag problems, http://soar.dnet.net/ so you can all laugh at me That's kinda expensive for that kind of speed no?
Wakko03 Better Hide R Die 137	Posted - 2013.05.01 13:53:00 - [13] - Quote This is a little silly, why you may ask.... You are NOT directly connecting to the CCP/EVE/Dust514 server. If you want to test your connection speed for the ps3; open up the PS3's crummy browser and go to speakeasy . com as it still works with the ps3.... that will tell you how fast your ps3 connection is to the internet. Now for the silly part... you are connecting to the PSN and then being forwarded to the appropriate server for the game you are trying to play. You have no control over the lag. You can continue to check the basics of your connection by going to speedtest or ping test but that is a general thing only and will only indicate a problem and it is not generally something you can fix without calling up your isp and trouble shooting. You will likely see many timeouts just running a ping test from your PC or MAC as you are PINGING an address.... the same thing that many hack attempts try looking for a weak network, because you are passing thru some firewalls. Okay, now add in the fact that CCP is Tweaking the equations for interaction between overseas servers as we get closer to release of the game, and add in the voice servers seperate-ness yet integrated and you commonly see one side of a team as almost un-hit-able; at this point add in a sprinkle of players leaving and new ones maybe taking their place..... what happens to that equation when 3 players join a side and they all have bad internet (2G cell service) with packet loss and pings over 100ms, while on the other sides' team they got 3 players with a tru-Broadband connection no packet loss and pings under 30ms. Then if you want to get really into it, ask your ISP what spot you are in their HUB? How old is your router and modem? And to further annoy you.... IPv6 and the end to NAT has been delayed for another year minimum.
bcs1a ROYAL SQUAD 1	Posted - 2013.05.01 19:38:00 - [14] - Quote 4447 wrote: If you're lagging, then there's too many people on your internet. Unless you're the only one. IFTFY cheers Bill
XANDER KAG Red Star. EoN. 107	Posted - 2013.05.01 20:00:00 - [15] - Quote I'm afraid to do this because my house has some of the worst wifi in existence.

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