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[piNkthunder]

I use a very fast internet speed, 4mb per second, and I play in Morocco, why is the game laggin so badly ? I play as administrator and use compatibility for the game to run in windows 98. Is the server bad or is the server making the north african countries play laggy, help... currently its laggy.

[DrAzzy]

Connection speed in mb/s doesn't matter for RO, what matters is latency. It's very possible that you're getting a lousy route. Follow the instructions here for taking a tracert and post it - that will often reveal where the problem is. http://forums.warppo...post-a-tracert/

[piNkthunder]

Tracing route to iro.ragnarokonline.com [128.241.93.60]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 1 ms 1 ms 1 ms 192.168.1.1
2 22 ms 21 ms 21 ms adsl196-1-200-206-196.adsl196-7.iam.net.ma [196.206.200.1]
3 21 ms 21 ms 22 ms ll212-2-212-100-217-212.ll212-2.iam.net.ma [212.217.100.212]
4 22 ms 20 ms 21 ms 193.194.50.99
5 33 ms 23 ms 23 ms adsl-6-222-192-81.adsl2.iam.net.ma [81.192.222.6]
6 31 ms 32 ms 32 ms te7-4.ccr01.svq01.atlas.cogentco.com [149.11.18.57]
7 47 ms 47 ms 46 ms te0-1-0-5.ccr21.mad05.atlas.cogentco.com [154.54.61.253]
8 66 ms 67 ms 68 ms te0-7-0-20.ccr21.par01.atlas.cogentco.com [154.54.56.146]
9 141 ms 140 ms 140 ms te0-6-0-2.ccr21.jfk02.atlas.cogentco.com [154.54.46.97]
10 147 ms 148 ms 146 ms te0-0-0-6.ccr21.dca01.atlas.cogentco.com [154.54.5.246]
11 159 ms 158 ms 158 ms te0-3-0-2.ccr21.atl01.atlas.cogentco.com [154.54.42.190]
12 171 ms 173 ms 172 ms te0-2-0-1.ccr21.iah01.atlas.cogentco.com [154.54.29.6]
13 210 ms 208 ms 207 ms te0-0-0-5.ccr21.lax01.atlas.cogentco.com [154.54.0.221]
14 209 ms 208 ms 209 ms te0-6-0-2.ccr21.lax04.atlas.cogentco.com [154.54.88.9]
15 208 ms 209 ms 209 ms ntt.lax04.atlas.cogentco.com [154.54.12.58]
16 208 ms 207 ms 208 ms xe-0-0-0-15.r05.lsanca03.us.ce.gin.ntt.net [198.172.90.170]
17 210 ms 208 ms 209 ms portal.demarcation.gravityus.com [204.2.170.50]
18 209 ms 208 ms 208 ms www.playragnarok.com [128.241.93.60]

Trace complete.




(Please help me, am even planning to change countries for this game, LOL)

[DrAzzy]

Sorry for the slow reply, I never noticed that this topic got another response.

Lag is starting between par01 (presumably located in paris) and jfk01 (in new york) on cogent's network. Cogent is notoriously bad - for a long time they were gravity's ISP, and there were lots of lag problems. Unfortunately, your ISP routes through cogent almost the whole way.

200ms ping is playable, but would lag noticably.

Use a service like lowerping or wtfast, and try to find a server that you have a low ping to (all the LP servers are on different ISPs, so you have hope of getting a different route to each one, and maybe some of them will be good)

[piNkthunder]

is there a technical way like make my internet skip going through cogent ? Is there a way to heal this problem other than using proxy programs like lowerping ???please help me. And naw, my lag can go up to 600+ or 1000+s, i mean i knw computers that have ping of 24s or 4s, why do i have this bad ping , how can i fix it ?

[Banjo03]

You can't fix ping, use Lowerping Beta, it's free.

[piNkthunder]

its not beta anymore, and thus they stripped its freeness, anyways i know many gaming cyber cafes, why do they have nice pings, and i got faster internet, but with a fat ping, that looks 200 but can reach 600's and 1000's???

zzzzz.

i bet there should be a way i can fix it.

[Banjo03]

I'm using it right now..

Anyways, good luck.

[piNkthunder]

Yep lowerping beta is free and available, currently gona use it thanks, and there is on the other hand Lowerping (non beta) which is priced, so yach thought there was no beta no more. Plz Drazzy reply...thanks

[Axylus]

is there a technical way like make my internet skip going through cogent ? Is there a way to heal this problem other than using proxy programs like lowerping ???please help me. And naw, my lag can go up to 600+ or 1000+s, i mean i knw computers that have ping of 24s or 4s, why do i have this bad ping , how can i fix it ?

Other than changing your ISP or using a "ping reduction" service? No.

[ilovemilk]

Play on France server. It's closer to Moroco.

[piNkthunder]

Morocco server, which i think wont exist , france server, whatever, its always laggy. Iam waiting if drazzy is gona giv a tip here, if not iam calling a technision.

[DrAzzy]

is there a technical way like make my internet skip going through cogent ? Is there a way to heal this problem other than using proxy programs like lowerping ???please help me. And naw, my lag can go up to 600+ or 1000+s, i mean i knw computers that have ping of 24s or 4s, why do i have this bad ping , how can i fix it ?

Use lowerping.

The cybercafes in your area probably use a performance proxy service like Lowerping or have selected an ISP specifically because it gets good pings to the locations where games are hosted.

You will have to pay if you want to get around this bad ping, because it costs money to host the proxy server. When you pay your ISP, part of that money goes into their peering and transit agreements. If you go through some other server, to trick it into getting better routing.... someone needs to pay for power and bandwidth for that server.

I've been working on setting up an alternative, but I still couldn't give it away for free if I did, i'd have to charge to cover costs - TANSTAAFL.

LP Beta is giving away free access to build publicity and make sure people test their new version thoroughly - and they can afford it; I know what it should cost to run their servers; they're making a tidy profit.

[piNkthunder]

Thanks DrAzzy, I hope everythin will go nicely.