Resolved - high pings from UK

[G. Williams]

Just a heads up for those that don't know about this little tool and spend ages trying to fix a seemingly random high ping

if you type "tracert" into a terminal/command promt (type cmd in the search bar in the start menu on windows) followed by a URL / IP address it will trace the route from your house to that address and all the hops along the way.

For example tracert 208.137.243.207 will trace your route to the 1st MRB DoD:S server, note each step shows the total time to get to that point including all previous points.

Over the last week or so I have been having high pings in the evening and this appears to be due to a dodgy link between London and New-York atm - see the attached image showing my trace done just now. I was on the server and my ping went from its usual ~100 to 800 and I noticed at least one other players did too, they were probably on the same route.

Unfortunately there is not much you can do about this but hope things get fixed. Its happened quite a few times now over the last week or so so there is some load issue going on on some net hub switch which is not great, but hopefully they will fix it! There is nothing you can do to your pc config that will affect this. The issue currently seems to pop up for about 10 mins at a time then go away again, though has been coming up several times a night

[Yamagata 1st MRB]

Yup, whenever someone complains about server lag, we direct them to This Topic. Which walks you through the tracert process, when we report the issue to our server host, that's the first thing they ask for!

[G. Williams]

Ah sorry Sir did not find that post before!

Cheers,

B