Weird Server Lag that hurts some players FAR more than others

To put it simply. The server is having these huge lagspikes and while many players experience only a little bit of delay, certain players like myself are completely unable to do anything at all for like 30+ seconds.

You can see in the below video how I experience this lag and the other players do not.. to the same extent, causing the loss of a rated arena match:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2He-...ature=youtu.be

My connection quality was perfect for the entire match. I was pinging google and it stayed stable at 47ms the entire game, so this delay is entirely caused by Warmane's server. So why then do some players get it far worse than others!?

This has become a common occurrence lately.

It wouldn't be as bad if all players experienced the same lag. But the fact that certain connections have it worse is really unfair in both PvP and PvE.

Can anybody provide insight into why this has started happening?

It really seems like the Icecrown server stability has been compromised for the sake of the new Outland realm.

I can provide the insight that that's not how the Internet works. The fact you can ping Google is irrelevant - unless our server was hosted on the same Google server you pinged. Also, "server lag" (and stability too) is characterized by affecting, as the name says, the server. It affects everyone, not just a chosen few. The very fact it only affects some players is enough to point at it being something outside the server scope.

Thanks for the clarification. Pinging google merely was a indirect way of indicating my own connection was not at fault.

You can see in the video my partner states the server lag was occurring, it affects everyone like you say.

However, in the video it is obvious the other players in the match are affected to a much lesser degree and my question is why this is happening now,? Has anything changed recently that might cause this behaviour?

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Originally Posted by Obnoxious

The very fact it only affects some players is enough to point at it being something outside the server scope.

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Do we have any idea of the extent of this issue? It is disheartening to hear that the affected players are to be summarily dismissed as "outside of server scope" without investigation.

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Originally Posted by TheArtfulDodger

You can see in the video my partner states the server lag was occurring, it affects everyone like you say.

However, in the video it is obvious the other players in the match are affected to a much lesser degree and my question is why this is happening now,? Has anything changed recently that might cause this behaviour?

Do we have any idea of the extent of this issue? It is disheartening to hear that the affected players are to be summarily dismissed as "outside of server scope" without investigation.

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There's no "change" that could cause certain players to have lag and others not. If an update had caused an issue, it would be affecting the whole server - and no, it doesn't affects everyone, or the Forums would be under a massive flood of threads, like happens when we are under a DDoS and everyone is lagging. If it was an update to some class/race/specialization, everyone using that would be affected, and again we would have much more widespread complains.

I find it disheartening that you assume there's anything for us to do or investigate. Again: if it was something on the core, on the hardware or on our host's connection, it would be affecting everyone equally; the first one we can do something about, the second and third we can complain to our host about, and that's as far as our reach goes. We aren't responsible or able to do anything about the Internet infrastructure, international connection issues between countries, routes having problems that ISPs might be choosing and so on.

I figured it might be the routing. Other services usually resolve this type of issue by working with their ISP, I guess if more players start reporting the issue maybe that option could be pursued. Thanks anyway.

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Originally Posted by TheArtfulDodger

I figured it might be the routing. Other services usually resolve this type of issue by working with their ISP, I guess if more players start reporting the issue maybe that option could be pursued. Thanks anyway.

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Routing is something that fixes itself over time. It's not something an ISP can do anything about, since routing tables take time to update and spread. And I'll say, from personal experience working at an ISP's tech support, that all an ISP will do is say "the problem isn't with us, it must be them." Which is just easier than saying the problem is one of the numerous hops the connection might take on the way to reach the server, all of which the ISP can't do anything about, just like us.

If it's any "help", im having the same issues as in the video. 30-ish seconds of "lag" where I can see what everyone else is doing but nothing gets through from me.

Relog doesn't help me and it happens maybe once per 5 minutes.

(Im on Warmane Outlands tho)

I think that this is occuring to more and more people, and I do think that you should take a more in-depth look at it since it's not caused by bad internet etc etc, but rather something server-side? I started getting these "lags" more and more the last few days and more and more people in my guild are as well.

Ah i've played servers in europe from canada for many years.
A few times i've had what your describing maybe for a week or so.
After some wild goose chasing and tracert I found a hop in newyork that was dropping 50 - 75% of packets.
So i called up my ISP and promptly asked if they could route me around newyork to france for a better WoW connection xD
They said it isn't something they can control. And i'd either be waiting for traffic to be routed elsewhere or for the problem to be fixed in newyork.

I've also got some lag spikes and weird visual bugs in the past few days but I haven't gotten to investigating because I know my WoW client is a DL from another server.

If your clients old also, save your accounts info folder and try a new install.


Also you can ping/traceroute the warmane server ip for a better idea of where the lag is coming from

I highly doubt it's client-side. It's weird that lots of people get the same problem within the same days/weeks. Unless everyones ISP, probably from several different countries get the same problem at the same time I would highly doubt that that's the problem too.

same problem, upvote this