Ability/Loot Lag on Oceanic Servers Despite Normal Latency

Also getting loot lag.

latency is normal at around 350. I'm playing from Europe.
still getting sharded to US every single time i log in, plus massive delay on all skills, looting, npc interaction. unplayable. will be my last month on wow if this doesnt get fixed by sep
Well the product is faulty, cant blame all our connections - so what excuse is it this time?
Very much an issue for BFA zones. Dungeons don't seem to be having the problems along with testing WoD zones with no evidence of latency issues.

World/Home MS is sitting at the usual 26ms being I'm connected to the oceanic realms. Definitely not an issue on the players end.
08/18/2018 02:05 AMPosted by Rockford
Very much an issue for BFA zones. Dungeons don't seem to be having the problems along with testing WoD zones with no evidence of latency issues.

World/Home MS is sitting at the usual 26ms being I'm connected to the oceanic realms. Definitely not an issue on the players end.


I believe the US sharding is a sep issue. But now think about my life. TRIPLE normal ping plus the 10k ms delay. lol
Getting error 51900319 pretty often. Really frustrating.
Been happening since Weds night for me - everything up to date including router software. Wish they would acknowledge there is a problem.
08/18/2018 02:19 AMPosted by Desînchanted
Been happening since Weds night for me - everything up to date including router software. Wish they would acknowledge there is a problem.


|------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|

| WinMTR statistics |

| Host - % | Sent | Recv | Best | Avrg | Wrst | Last |

|------------------------------------------------|------|------|------|------|------|------|

| 192.168.1.254 - 0 | 544 | 544 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 1 |

| No response from host - 100 | 109 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |

| No response from host - 100 | 109 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |

| ae8-10.akbr6.global-gateway.net.nz - 0 | 544 | 544 | 16 | 17 | 39 | 17 |

| ae7-2.akbr7.global-gateway.net.nz - 0 | 544 | 544 | 16 | 18 | 55 | 17 |

| xe5-0-6.sgbr3.global-gateway.net.nz - 0 | 544 | 544 | 42 | 42 | 75 | 42 |

| ae7-10.sebr4.global-gateway.net.nz - 0 | 544 | 544 | 40 | 41 | 47 | 42 |

| 55497.syd.equinix.com - 1 | 529 | 525 | 40 | 41 | 44 | 41 |

| 103.4.115.248 - 1 | 533 | 530 | 41 | 42 | 45 | 43 |

|________________________________________________|______|______|______|______|______|______|

WinMTR v0.92 GPL V2 by Appnor MSP - Fully Managed Hosting & Cloud Provider
Hmmmm

|------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
| WinMTR statistics |
| Host - % | Sent | Recv | Best | Avrg | Wrst | Last |
|------------------------------------------------|------|------|------|------|------|------|
| dsldevice.lan - 0 | 310 | 310 | 0 | 0 | 12 | 0 |
| lo0.bng1.mel4.on.ii.net - 0 | 310 | 310 | 1 | 2 | 8 | 2 |
| ae4.cr1.mel4.on.ii.net - 0 | 310 | 310 | 2 | 3 | 35 | 2 |
| be20.cr3.syd7.on.ii.net - 0 | 310 | 310 | 14 | 14 | 20 | 15 |
| be-50.cr2.syd7.on.ii.net - 0 | 310 | 310 | 13 | 14 | 20 | 14 |
| ae6.cr2.syd4.on.ii.net - 1 | 306 | 305 | 13 | 16 | 84 | 14 |
| 55497.syd.equinix.com - 0 | 310 | 310 | 13 | 14 | 32 | 15 |
| 103.4.115.248 - 0 | 310 | 310 | 13 | 14 | 34 | 14 |
|________________________________________________|______|______|______|______|______|______|
WinMTR v0.92 GPL V2 by Appnor MSP - Fully Managed Hosting & Cloud Provider
As others have said, started Wednesday (AU time). Launch day was fine. Usually fine in the mornings, bad during peak times. Today (Sat) was just awful all around. Dungeons are 100% fine. I've only noticed this occur in outdoor BFA content. Seems to be zone/shard specific. Have had guildies in one zone report the lag while someone in another doesn't have it, or 2 people in the same zone but one with warmode and one without having different results. Inviting a person in a bad shard to a lag-free shard clears it up, at least until that shard gets it.
Every person I know ingame has experienced this lag in BFA content at various times over the last few days.

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| WinMTR statistics |
| Host - % | Sent | Recv | Best | Avrg | Wrst | Last |
|------------------------------------------------|------|------|------|------|------|------|
| 192.168.0.1 - 0 | 625 | 625 | 0 | 0 | 11 | 0 |
| No response from host - 100 | 126 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 58.160.249.2 - 0 | 625 | 625 | 9 | 12 | 32 | 11 |
|bundle-ether4.ken-edge902.sydney.telstra.net - 0 | 625 | 625 | 9 | 13 | 34 | 12 |
|bundle-ether2.chw-edge902.sydney.telstra.net - 0 | 625 | 625 | 9 | 13 | 62 | 12 |
|bundle-ether14.chw-core10.sydney.telstra.net - 0 | 625 | 625 | 10 | 14 | 34 | 14 |
|10gigabitethernet7-1.chw45.sydney.telstra.net - 0 | 625 | 625 | 9 | 21 | 217 | 13 |
| equini3.lnk.telstra.net - 0 | 625 | 625 | 10 | 14 | 99 | 12 |
| xe-1-0-0.gw101.sy1.ap.equinix.com - 0 | 625 | 625 | 9 | 14 | 100 | 12 |
| xe-1-0-1.gw101.sy3.ap.equinix.com - 0 | 625 | 625 | 8 | 14 | 85 | 17 |
| 27.111.251.106 - 0 | 625 | 625 | 9 | 13 | 38 | 12 |
| 103.4.115.248 - 0 | 625 | 625 | 10 | 13 | 28 | 12 |
|________________________________________________|______|______|______|______|______|______|
WinMTR v0.92 GPL V2 by Appnor MSP - Fully Managed Hosting & Cloud Provider
Peak time in Australia and I just had to log out because it's !@#$ing unplayable. Would also suggest Blizzard check into their Australian provider in the case they may have throttled back the local servers due to load and cost reduction.

Or at least have someone connected to Blizz in Australia log in to see how ridiculously %^-* the current performance is!

This isn't acceptable...
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I think they could at least give us a quick server restart to rule that out.
Dont know if this will work for anyone else but. Turning warmode on for some strange reason has reduced my lag significantly.
08/18/2018 03:08 AMPosted by Desînchanted
Dont know if this will work for anyone else but. Turning warmode on for some strange reason has reduced my lag significantly.


That hasn't been my experience, but I haven't tried that again today. It's possibly a problem with the sharding. Perhaps more people are playing with Warmode OFF than was anticipated, therefore the load on the non-Warmode shards are increased. Just a theory, but it could make sense.
08/18/2018 03:16 AMPosted by Schmuckules
08/18/2018 03:08 AMPosted by Desînchanted
Dont know if this will work for anyone else but. Turning warmode on for some strange reason has reduced my lag significantly.


That hasn't been my experience, but I haven't tried that again today. It's possibly a problem with the sharding. Perhaps more people are playing with Warmode OFF than was anticipated, therefore the load on the non-Warmode shards are increased. Just a theory, but it could make sense.


Im no expert but you might be right - swapped back over to standard (non warmode) and the difference is like night and day.
I wish they could just do an emergency server restart, even just to make it look like they are doing something about this. Going 3 full days with nothing more than "Run WinMTR and post it here" just doesn't feel good enough, especially considering it's now followed by another NINETEEN hours of silence! What the hell guys!

I mean, tech guys always tell you that the first step if something doesn't work is to turn it off and back on again... maybe it's worth a shot :P
|------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
| WinMTR statistics |
| Host - % | Sent | Recv | Best | Avrg | Wrst | Last |
|------------------------------------------------|------|------|------|------|------|------|
| 192.168.1.1 - 0 | 649 | 649 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 |
| 121-73-108-1.cable.telstraclear.net - 60 | 194 | 79 | 8 | 10 | 30 | 10 |
| 203.98.50.2 - 79 | 158 | 34 | 21 | 25 | 61 | 24 |
| 203.98.50.251 - 62 | 190 | 74 | 21 | 22 | 47 | 22 |
| gi2-20.akl-grafton-bdr1.ihug.net - 62 | 190 | 74 | 21 | 23 | 26 | 22 |
| as9500.nsw.ix.asn.au - 58 | 198 | 84 | 46 | 48 | 79 | 47 |
| as55497.nsw.ix.asn.au - 60 | 194 | 79 | 46 | 47 | 50 | 48 |
| 103.4.115.248 - 60 | 194 | 79 | 46 | 47 | 51 | 48 |
|________________________________________________|______|______|______|______|______|______|
WinMTR v0.92 GPL V2 by Appnor MSP - Fully Managed Hosting & Cloud Provider


This was around 8:20pm Sydney time.

Displayed latency: 46ms (home), 51ms (world). But I'm getting what feels like several seconds of lag.
blizzard pls help us
WTB fix.
Are they even doing anything?