High latency - centurylink! Mainthread

Issue is starting to occur yet again. Its getting worse. Last week it was only three days now we are up to 4 in a Row of this issue.

5 21 ms 21 ms 21 ms 63-235-41-90.dia.static.qwest.
net [63.235.41.90]
6 * * 46 ms ae-1-3508.ear7.Chicago2.Level3.
net [4.69.142.174]
7 193 ms 195 ms 197 ms BLIZZARD-EN.ear7.Chicago2.Level3.
net [4.7.196.134]
8 198 ms 196 ms 198 ms ae1-br02-eqch2.as57976.
net [137.221.69.35]
9 207 ms 201 ms 201 ms be2-pe2-eqch2.as57976.
net [137.221.69.73]
10 214 ms 208 ms 208 ms chi-eqch2-ia-bons-04.as57976.
net [137.221.66.15]
11 207 ms 250 ms 248 ms 24.105.62.129

How many more times do we have to continue giving the same info though. I just checked back to when i posted other Traceroutes a month ago. And like nothing has changed. The IP addresses names/websites are the same. The actual numbers are different but still they use the same 2 at least for me. So the stuff from a month ago are the same things we are submitting now. 4.7.196.134 4.69.142.174 are the 2 main ones that I see myself and other people have when they do a trace route where it gets timed out. It just alternated between those two addresses. Nothing is changing. So it feels odd that nothing is getting figured out a month/2 down the line.

I donā€™t want to diminish the fact that you did reply which I do really appreciate. But it is far beyond frustrating. I have not gotten to raid with my guild for over 2 months now because of this issue. And I donā€™t really feel. Spend extra money on a third party application so you can play our game. Is an acceptable resolution to this issue.

I get that there are tons of other issues. But soon we also will be going into holiday seasons. Which means I can assume we wont have anyone working on this issue then. So at this rate it doesnā€™t even look like this issue will be resolved before the start of the new year. Which by then we will be at 3 + months of an on going issue that makes the game unplayable at key times multiple times a week for every week.

I understand it is an issue on century links side. But the lack of info or idea of when this issue will be resolved is disheartening and as more time creeps by and the responses we get coming fewer and fewer and less detailed, it just feels like the whole issue is being forgotten or just swept under a rug till no one bothers responding because they will think why bother.

I am hopeful we will see some progress in the coming days / week.

Im trying to be as polite as I can over this issue, but I cant even play other games like HoTS because it also lags out since it runs through that same server. So I just have to give up any hopes of using your products for these evenings which is very unfortunate.

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Iā€™m experiencing the same issues with intermittent 3-5sec freezes during peak hours:

|------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
|                                      WinMTR statistics                                   |
|                       Host              -   %  | Sent | Recv | Best | Avrg | Wrst | Last |
|------------------------------------------------|------|------|------|------|------|------|
|                             192.168.2.1 -    0 | 20973 | 20973 |    0 |    0 |    2 |    0 |
|            boid-dsl-gw18.boid.qwest.net -    1 | 20886 | 20864 |    1 |    2 |   70 |    2 |
|                boid-agw1.inet.qwest.net -    1 | 20910 | 20894 |    1 |    2 |   58 |    2 |
|              sea-brdr-03.inet.qwest.net -    1 | 20882 | 20860 |   11 |   13 |  124 |   12 |
|                   No response from host -  100 | 4198 |    0 |    0 |    0 |    0 |    0 |
|                   No response from host -  100 | 4198 |    0 |    0 |    0 |    0 |    0 |
| BLIZZARD-EN.ear3.LosAngeles1.Level3.net -    1 | 20897 | 20878 |   30 |   35 |  230 |   31 |
|              ae1-br01-eqla1.as57976.net -    1 | 20808 | 20778 |   35 |   52 | 3739 |   38 |
|        et-0-0-2-br01-swlv10.as57976.net -    1 | 20896 | 20876 |   35 |   39 |  566 |   36 |
|       et-0-0-31-pe02-swlv10.as57976.net -    1 | 20875 | 20850 |   35 |   39 |  157 |   36 |
|       las-swlv10-ia-bons-03.as57976.net -    1 | 20889 | 20867 |   35 |   36 |   58 |   36 |
|                           137.221.100.2 -    1 | 20878 | 20854 |   35 |   36 |   63 |   36 |
|                   No response from host -  100 | 4198 |    0 |    0 |    0 |    0 |    0 |
|                   No response from host -  100 | 4198 |    0 |    0 |    0 |    0 |    0 |
|                   No response from host -  100 | 4198 |    0 |    0 |    0 |    0 |    0 |
|                   No response from host -  100 | 4198 |    0 |    0 |    0 |    0 |    0 |
|                   No response from host -  100 | 4198 |    0 |    0 |    0 |    0 |    0 |
|                   No response from host -  100 | 4198 |    0 |    0 |    0 |    0 |    0 |
|                   No response from host -  100 | 4198 |    0 |    0 |    0 |    0 |    0 |
|                   No response from host -  100 | 4198 |    0 |    0 |    0 |    0 |    0 |
|                   No response from host -  100 | 4198 |    0 |    0 |    0 |    0 |    0 |
|                   No response from host -  100 | 4198 |    0 |    0 |    0 |    0 |    0 |
|                   No response from host -  100 | 4198 |    0 |    0 |    0 |    0 |    0 |
|                   No response from host -  100 | 4198 |    0 |    0 |    0 |    0 |    0 |
|                   No response from host -  100 | 4198 |    0 |    0 |    0 |    0 |    0 |
|                   No response from host -  100 | 4198 |    0 |    0 |    0 |    0 |    0 |
|                   No response from host -  100 | 4198 |    0 |    0 |    0 |    0 |    0 |
|                   No response from host -  100 | 4198 |    0 |    0 |    0 |    0 |    0 |
|                   No response from host -  100 | 4198 |    0 |    0 |    0 |    0 |    0 |
|                   No response from host -  100 | 4198 |    0 |    0 |    0 |    0 |    0 |
|________________________________________________|______|______|______|______|______|______|
   WinMTR v0.92 GPL V2 by Appnor MSP - Fully Managed Hosting & Cloud Provider

Issue is happening again for the 5th day in a row.

5 20 ms 21 ms 21 ms 63-235-41-90.dia.static.qwest .net [63.235.41.90]
6 * * 45 ms ae-1-3508.ear7.Chicago2.Level3. net [4.69.142.174]
7 149 ms 145 ms 143 ms BLIZZARD-EN.ear7.Chicago2.Level3 .net [4.7.196.134]
8 144 ms 144 ms 146 ms ae1-br02-eqch2.as57976 .net [137.221.69.35]
9 149 ms 148 ms 144 ms be2-pe2-eqch2.as57976. net [137.221.69.73]
10 152 ms 152 ms 150 ms chi-eqch2-ia-bons-04.as57976. net [137.221.66.15]
11 143 ms 145 ms 144 ms 24.105.62.129

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Trying to connected to Australian servers from HK (WoW Classic). When game first launched was getting around 190ms latency which was at least playable, then recently have been getting 280ms and today has jumped to 300+ which is borderline unplayableā€¦

WinMTR Statistics

WinMTR statistics

Host % Sent Recv Best Avrg Wrst Last
router.asus.com 1 271 270 0 2 16 5
n218250136254.netvigator.com 1 271 270 0 5 23 5
10.193.233.117 1 267 265 0 5 55 4
wtsc3a042.netvigator.com 1 271 270 0 7 55 14
63-216-156-225.static.pccwglobal.net 1 271 270 0 6 55 5
63.218.205.146 1 271 270 0 7 54 18
202.84.153.37 1 271 270 0 8 56 24
202.84.138.42 0 270 270 117 121 144 127
202.84.222.186 0 270 270 117 120 145 125
unknown.telstraglobal.net 0 270 270 118 125 197 127
137.221.85.35 0 270 270 118 127 221 118
et-0-0-0-pe02-eqsy4.as57976.net 0 270 270 118 123 220 127
103.4.115.248 0 270 270 118 121 147 127
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This is terrible. Here is a couple hours from 4-8 PST:

|------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
|                                      WinMTR statistics                                   |
|                       Host              -   %  | Sent | Recv | Best | Avrg | Wrst | Last |
|------------------------------------------------|------|------|------|------|------|------|
|                             192.168.2.1 -    0 | 9936 | 9936 |    0 |    0 |    0 |    0 |
|            boid-dsl-gw18.boid.qwest.net -    6 | 8522 | 8033 |    1 |    3 |   48 |    3 |
|                boid-agw1.inet.qwest.net -    6 | 8496 | 7999 |    1 |    3 |   58 |   21 |
|              sea-brdr-03.inet.qwest.net -    6 | 8537 | 8052 |   11 |   14 |   91 |   14 |
|      63-235-42-186.dia.static.qwest.net -  100 | 2487 |    2 |    0 |  250 |  487 |   14 |
|     ae-1-51.ear3.LosAngeles1.Level3.net -  100 | 2488 |    6 |    0 | 2429 | 4232 |  727 |
| BLIZZARD-EN.ear3.LosAngeles1.Level3.net -    6 | 8492 | 7993 |    0 |   36 |  368 |   33 |
|              ae1-br01-eqla1.as57976.net -    6 | 8513 | 8030 |   35 |   58 | 4916 |   38 |
|        et-0-0-2-br01-swlv10.as57976.net -    6 | 8543 | 8062 |   35 |   45 | 1980 |   37 |
|       et-0-0-31-pe01-swlv10.as57976.net -    6 | 8496 | 7998 |   35 |   40 |  168 |   38 |
|       las-swlv10-ia-bons-02.as57976.net -    6 | 8527 | 8040 |   35 |   37 |   43 |   38 |
|                           137.221.100.2 -    6 | 8517 | 8025 |   35 |   36 |   55 |   37 |
|________________________________________________|______|______|______|______|______|______|
   WinMTR v0.92 GPL V2 by Appnor MSP - Fully Managed Hosting & Cloud Provider
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Over a month with a consistent issue that Blizzard claims itā€™s trying to fix, Centurylink claims doesnā€™t exist, and level3 has no contact info. Glad we get to be the stooges that are falling for whatever this is. Someone just doesnā€™t want to pay the money to repair whatever issue is happening.

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Issue is starting up again. Up to 6 nights in a row.

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Issue happening again 7th day in a row.

5 21 ms 20 ms 20 ms 63-235-41-90.dia.static.qwest .net [63.235.41.90]
6 * 45 ms 45 ms ae-1-3508.ear7.Chicago2.Level3 .net [4.69.142.174]
7 222 ms 223 ms 225 ms BLIZZARD-EN.ear7.Chicago2.Level3 .net [4.7.196.134]
8 216 ms 220 ms 223 ms ae1-br02-eqch2.as57976 .net [137.221.69.35]
9 233 ms 234 ms 231 ms be2-pe2-eqch2.as57976 .net [137.221.69.73]
10 231 ms 232 ms 226 ms chi-eqch2-ia-bons-04.as57976 .net [137.221.66.15]
11 202 ms 210 ms 218 ms 24.105.62.129

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yep, 7 days. getting worse not better.

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

| WinMTR statistics |

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

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

| 192.168.0.1 - 0 | 2620 | 2620 | 0 | 0 | 69 | 0 |

| stpl-dsl-gw21.stpl.qwest. net - 0 | 2620 | 2620 | 1 | 3 | 60 | 2 |

| stpl-agw1.inet.qwest. net - 1 | 2588 | 2580 | 1 | 8 | 140 | 27 |

| 216-160-19-2.mpls.qwest. net - 0 | 2620 | 2620 | 1 | 3 | 120 | 3 |

| ae-1-3508.ear7.Chicago2.Level3. net - 99 | 531 | 7 | 11 | 11 | 11 | 11 |

| BLIZZARD-EN.ear7.Chicago2.Level3. net - 1 | 2609 | 2606 | 138 | 205 | 656 | 209 |

| ae1-br02-eqch2.as57976. net - 1 | 2616 | 2615 | 139 | 205 | 801 | 207 |

| be2-pe2-eqch2.as57976. net - 1 | 2597 | 2591 | 138 | 200 | 261 | 210 |

| chi-eqch2-ia-bons-04.as57976. net - 1 | 2612 | 2610 | 141 | 202 | 295 | 204 |

| 24.105.62.129 - 1 | 2605 | 2601 | 139 | 201 | 261 | 211 |

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

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

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|------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
|                                      WinMTR statistics                                   |
|                       Host              -   %  | Sent | Recv | Best | Avrg | Wrst | Last |
|------------------------------------------------|------|------|------|------|------|------|
|                                   R9000 -    0 |   42 |   42 |    0 |    0 |    0 |    0 |
|            hlrn-dsl-gw01.hlrn.qwest.net -    0 |   42 |   42 |    1 |    4 |   25 |    2 |
|             63-225-124-1.hlrn.qwest.net -    0 |   42 |   42 |    1 |    5 |   31 |    2 |
|             dvr3-brdr-01.inet.qwest.net -    0 |   42 |   42 |    2 |    4 |   32 |    2 |
|       63-235-41-90.dia.static.qwest.net -    0 |   42 |   42 |    2 |    3 |   10 |    3 |
|                   No response from host -  100 |    8 |    0 |    0 |    0 |    0 |    0 |
|    BLIZZARD-EN.ear7.Chicago2.Level3.net -    0 |   42 |   42 |   39 |   58 |  137 |   39 |
|              ae1-br01-eqch2.as57976.net -    0 |   42 |   42 |   47 |   52 |  108 |   50 |
|                          137.221.65.132 -    0 |   42 |   42 |   47 |   51 |   80 |   57 |
|       et-0-0-31-pe02-swlv10.as57976.net -    0 |   42 |   42 |   47 |   51 |   96 |   49 |
|                           137.221.105.2 -    0 |   42 |   42 |   47 |   48 |   55 |   49 |
|________________________________________________|______|______|______|______|______|______|
   WinMTR v0.92 GPL V2 by Appnor MSP - Fully Managed Hosting & Cloud Provider


Usually worse but still 160ms-200ms in game. Denver CenturyLink gigabit.
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Hey yā€™all,

Another post on this thread just to let you know you havenā€™t been forgotten. Sorry this is taking so long. If this were straightforward weā€™d probably already have it handled, but for now weā€™ve pinged our internal thread to see if we can get you folks an update of some variety. No promises yet but we entirely understand that this is a pain to deal with.

For now, please continue to use your alternate connection path, such as downloading and running a free or free trial vpn client.

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Was just rerouted through LA instead, increased latency to 60ms at all times insteadā€¦

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Welp, gotta say, Iā€™ve never experienced lag quite like this before.

Went from absolutely zero problems to 4-5k world latency in the timewalking raid. The weird part? It was like I was watching a recording. While chat moved normally, the game itself wouldnā€™t ā€˜skipā€™ like normal lag does. I watched half a fight happen AFTER chat indicated the boss was killed.

Not really complaining, just never experienced that before.

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Blue, if it helps at all this happens to me around 7pm mountain time. Played earlier today and it was great 20-40 ping. 130+ around 7pm.

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Issue Occurring again for the 8th day in a row.

5 21 ms 21 ms 20 ms 63-235-41-90.dia.static.qwest. net [63.235.41.90]
6 * * * Request timed out.
7 50 ms 50 ms 49 ms BLIZZARD-EN.ear3.LosAngeles1.Level3 .net [4.71.135.106]
8 277 ms 282 ms 266 ms ae1-br01-eqla1.as57976 .net [137.221.68.33]
9 265 ms 267 ms 272 ms et-0-0-2-br01-swlv10.as57976 .net [137.221.65.69]
10 354 ms 329 ms 278 ms 137.221.65.133
11 265 ms 278 ms 280 ms be1-pe2-eqch2.as57976 .net [137.221.69.69]
12 274 ms 282 ms 276 ms chi-eqch2-ia-bons-04.as57976 .net [137.221.66.15]
13 272 ms 271 ms 274 ms 24.105.62.129

appears they re routed it but still having the same issue

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So the trial with my vpn ends tomorrow and the issues still havenā€™t been fixed. I really expected more from Blizzard. Itā€™s been over a month. I donā€™t want to pay for a vpn just to be able to raid without lag.

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Iā€™ve been having this issue as well. Century link is my ISP and I play on US Thrall and Bleeding Hollow. Every night my ping goes from less than 50 ms to 300-450 ms at 7:00 PM Mountain time and finally gets back to normal at 9:00 PM.

Iā€™ve tried everything. This is destroying my ability to raid. This has been going on for over a month and the slow down is so regular you could set your watch to it. This had never been an issue until about a month ago.

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Like clockwork 9th day in a row. 6PM and the slow climb to lag city has begun. Honestly its like They are just throttling the service during this period of time.

5 21 ms 20 ms 20 ms 63-235-41-90.dia.static.qwest. net [63.235.41.90]
6 * * 46 ms ae-1-3508.ear7.Chicago2.Level3. net [4.69.142.174]
7 184 ms 186 ms 184 ms BLIZZARD-EN.ear7.Chicago2.Level3 .net [4.7.196.134]
8 183 ms 181 ms 184 ms ae1-br02-eqch2.as57976 .net [137.221.69.35]
9 194 ms 196 ms 196 ms be2-pe2-eqch2.as57976. net [137.221.69.73]
10 194 ms 195 ms 195 ms chi-eqch2-ia-bons-04.as57976. net [137.221.66.15]
11 200 ms 200 ms 197 ms 24.105.62.129

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Still having issues with connection, very irritated that I pay monthly for a game that cannot even get their crap together on the network side of things. If this does not fix itself then I am unsubbing for the lack of effort on blizzards fault.

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